LIZ GILL reports on a new trend of British expats living in Spain and working over on Gibraltar

In Marbella, however, there are signs of a recovery. Taylor Wimpey has started building again, the first developer on the Costa to do so in at least two years. “Because they’re a multinational working in the States they had picked up on the sub-prime crisis there and they saw what was coming in Spain in a way local developers didn’t,” says sales consultant Francisco Tanti.