Why we tell most buyers to rent for their first year
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Why we tell most buyers to rent for their first year

June 2026 · 4 min read

The single piece of advice that has saved our clients more money than any other.

It sounds counter-intuitive coming from a sales advisory. But it is the single most reliable piece of advice we give first-time Marbella buyers: rent for a year first.

Why

The Marbella you experience on a two-week holiday is not the Marbella of December, or of the school run, or of the summer heat in August. A year of living the reality is worth more than any number of viewings.

Your best year

Take a well-located long-let in the area you think you want. Live it. Try the alternatives. Then buy — with vastly better information than a two-week visit will ever give you.

The economics

€40,000–€60,000 in rent for a year is trivial next to a €200,000 mistake on the wrong purchase.

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