The Journal
Quarterly letters. Honest market notes. The occasional client letter, with permission.
i. In focus · Spring 2026
A market does not crash; it whispers. This spring, Marbella is whispering — and the people who are listening are buying.
Three things have changed in the last six months: fewer launches, more discretion in the off-market, and a soft drift in the asking price of estates above eight million. None of these is a panic, but together they are a signal.
Read the letter →
Five buildings worth your attention, two not, and a quiet rule for telling them apart.
Read · 7 min →
A letter from the Goldsteins, twelve months after the keys. Schools, doctors, light, mistakes.
Read · 11 min →
Why the same villa, fifty metres higher, is worth a third less — and why I keep recommending it.
Read · 6 min →
Six villages, six markets, six lunches. The map I give every new client in their first month.
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Six points and a worked example. What it does, what it does not, and who it is actually for.
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Twelve streets in Marbella that almost never make it to a portal — and why.
Read · 9 min →I write quarterly, not weekly. The market is too important to comment on every Wednesday.
— Andrea, founder's note · 2022
A few times a year
Quarterly. Quietly. No marketing, no portals, no pop-ups. Written by me.
