What is the minimum budget to buy property through Muse Selection?

€1.5 million. The catalogue runs from €1.5M (well-positioned apartments in Marbella centre or Puerto Banús) to approximately €40M (private estates in La Zagaleta and Cascada de Camoján). For €500K–€1.5M, our sister brand Muse Marbella covers the same coast.

Do you charge buyers a fee?

No. Our fee is paid by the seller, in line with Spanish real-estate convention. Buyers pay only the legal and administrative costs of the purchase — approximately 10–12% of the price total (ITP 7% on resale, notary, registry, lawyer).

Can I view residences without flying in?

Yes. We produce private video walk-throughs, drone footage, and a verbal walk on a live call with a principal of the firm. For shortlist residences, a member of the desk attends in person on your behalf and reports back the same day. In-person viewing in Marbella remains the final step.

How do off-market residences work?

The advisory holds approximately 300 residences shown only by introduction — typically because the owner does not want a public listing. They are presented as a dossier (photographs, plan, provenance, conditions) and shown in person to one or two qualified principals at a time.

Is the Golden Visa still available?

No. Spain abolished the Golden Visa programme on 3 April 2025. Residence by property investment alone is no longer possible. The four active routes are the Non-Lucrative Visa, Digital Nomad Visa, Beckham Law (for employees) and the Entrepreneur Visa.

In which languages do you work?

English, Spanish, and Russian — natively in all three. Site, dossiers, Curator and Concierge are available in each. French and German on request.

Where are your offices?

Two offices in Marbella centre. The principal office is at Avenida Arias Maldonado 2, 29602 Marbella, two streets from the Old Town. Appointments by introduction.

The fastest path is the Curator — describe what you are looking for in a structured brief and it returns three to five matches against the live catalogue in seconds. Or write directly to info@musemarbella.es with a note of your brief and how you found us.

Are the figures asking prices or sale prices?

Asking prices of currently-listed residences. Spain does not publish per-property closing prices, so a published-catalogue index is the most granular openly-available luxury benchmark. We never present asking figures as transaction prices.

What is the €1.5M floor and why?

Only residences priced from €1.5 million enter the index. This isolates the luxury register from the broad market a generic portal average blends in, so the per-zone €/m² reflects the segment Muse Selection actually serves.

Why report the median rather than the average?

The median price per square metre is far less distorted by a single trophy listing than the mean. We publish both; the median is the headline figure.

How often does the index update?

The underlying catalogue snapshot is refreshed daily from the source feeds; per-zone pages reflect the latest snapshot. The quarterly edition label marks the editorial cut.

Can I reuse the data?

Yes — the dataset is licensed CC BY 4.0. Reuse it with attribution to "Muse Selection Marbella Property Index (museselection.es/marbella-property-index)". A machine-readable CSV is published at /api/marbella-property-index.csv.

Transparency

How the Marbella Property Index is calculated.

The index reports the median asking price per square metre for €1.5M+ residences, zone by zone, derived live from a deduplicated catalogue. Figures are asking prices of currently-listed residences, not completed transactions. Below is exactly how the numbers are produced — and the open licence that lets you reuse them.

1 · Sources
Three regional feeds — Inmobalia (REST), Resales-Online and Zoddak (new-build) — plus the Muse Selection internal register, including off-market residences.
2 · Deduplication
The same residence is frequently syndicated to multiple feeds. We merge and de-duplicate so each residence is counted once.
3 · Luxury floor
Filter to residences priced from €1.5 million. POA (price-on-request) listings are admitted only when Muse-exclusive/featured, and are excluded from €/m² maths.
4 · €/m² computation
Price ÷ built area, per residence. Values below €1,000/m² or above €60,000/m² are dropped as feed errors (plot mislabels, missing areas).
5 · Per-zone aggregation
Group by zone; report a zone only when it has at least four priced residences. 21 zones currently qualify.
6 · Headline figures
Median (headline) and average €/m², median asking price, and the min–max range — recomputed on every daily snapshot.

Frequently asked

Are the figures asking prices or sale prices?: Asking prices of currently-listed residences. Spain does not publish per-property closing prices, so a published-catalogue index is the most granular openly-available luxury benchmark. We never present asking figures as transaction prices.
What is the €1.5M floor and why?: Only residences priced from €1.5 million enter the index. This isolates the luxury register from the broad market a generic portal average blends in, so the per-zone €/m² reflects the segment Muse Selection actually serves.
Why report the median rather than the average?: The median price per square metre is far less distorted by a single trophy listing than the mean. We publish both; the median is the headline figure.
How often does the index update?: The underlying catalogue snapshot is refreshed daily from the source feeds; per-zone pages reflect the latest snapshot. The quarterly edition label marks the editorial cut.
Can I reuse the data?: Yes — the dataset is licensed CC BY 4.0. Reuse it with attribution to "Muse Selection Marbella Property Index (museselection.es/marbella-property-index)". A machine-readable CSV is published at /api/marbella-property-index.csv.

Back to the full index · download the dataset (CSV, CC BY 4.0).

1 · Sources

2 · Deduplication

3 · Luxury floor

4 · €/m² computation

5 · Per-zone aggregation

6 · Headline figures

Frequently asked