Malaga Expat Consulting

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Malaga Expat is your Relocation Consultant, Property Finder & Paperwork Assistant based in Malaga, Costa del Sol.

🇪🇸Relocation to Malaga, Spain
🏠Property Finder
💻Spanish Admin & Visas (NLV, DNV, EU family)
👩‍⚕️Health Insurance Sanitas
✅️Wealth of local knowledge and guidance with your move to Spain Our services cover a broad range of matters, from assistance with paperwork and Spanish bureaucracy to relocation consultancy and property finding, and are directed to all expats residing or planning to move to Malaga and the Costa del Sol. Malaga Expat Consulting was founded by Irina Saltmarsh, “the expat with experience”, who herself has mastered several relocations and lived and worked in many different countries, both as employed and as a small business owner. Irina speaks several languages, including English, German, Russian and Spanish and since 2009 lives with her family and works in Spain. Malaga Expat Consulting was created with the aim of providing to all expats living or relocating to the area of Malaga and the Costa del Sol competent help and assistance with a range of relocation & admin affairs in a friendly and professional manner at a competitive price. We can help you with advice about the right area to live, assist with finding the right property for you and your family to buy or to rent, locate the schools and nurseries for your children and help with enrolling process, register you and your family with local doctors. Let us assist you with paperwork applying for NIE, Residency permit, Town Hall registrations and driving license, opening a bank account and just accompany you to any authority where they would normally only speak Spanish. We can make the settling down process for you and your family easier and stress-free by introducing you to the local professionals and competent organisations and help with any advice and recommendation to make your new life in Malaga happy and relaxed from day one.

04/11/2026

Spain might be the dream. Turning that dream into a realistic plan is where we come in.

02/11/2026

The good news?

In Málaga Province, we’re currently seeing renewal applications being processed much faster than before.
But good preparation is more important than ever.

🇪🇸 If your renewal is coming up, don’t leave the paperwork until the last minute.

23/10/2026

Sometimes the biggest part of moving to Spain is simply knowing someone has got your back.

22/10/2026

Fantastic opportunity through my personal network of landlords. Beautiful apartment became available for a long-term rent in the best area of Malaga.
Only for pre-qualified tenants' profiles!

- 1 bed, 70 m2 in Cerrado de Calderon
- amazing sea views
- quiet residential area, but close to all amenities and just 15 min from the historic centre
- fully furnished and equipped
- 1'100€ monthly rent

21/10/2026

Maybe this is your sign to stop dreaming about it and start looking at the next step. 🇪🇸

19/10/2026

🚨 5 YEARS IN SPAIN DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY MEAN PERMANENT RESIDENCY.

One of the key requirements for long-term residency is proving continuous residence.

During your 5 years, your absences generally cannot exceed:
➡️ 10 months in total
➡️ 6 months in one single absence

And yes, the authorities DO check.

We recently had a permanent residency application rejected because the applicant’s absence requirements hadn’t been met, despite completing 5 years on a Non-Lucrative Visa.
Don’t wait until year 5 to check your travel history.

Start keeping track from year one. 🇪🇸

16/10/2026

September has been a VERY busy month at Málaga Expat.

From finding rental properties in just one week, to successful residency applications, NIEs, a last-minute Digital Nomad Visa and arranging 35+ Sanitas health insurance policies, there has been a lot happening behind the scenes.
And, as always, not every case has had the outcome we hoped for.

One permanent residency application was rejected because the required absence limits during the previous five years of residency had not been met. It was a difficult outcome, but an important reminder that Spanish residency requirements really ARE checked.

Behind every application, search or policy is a real person, a family, a move or a deadline and often a LOT of stress.
That’s why our role is about more than paperwork.

It’s about experience, preparation, organisation and knowing exactly what needs to be done and when.

Our job is to make the process as straightforward and stress-free as possible, whether you’re moving to Spain, navigating residency, looking for a rental property or simply trying to understand what you need to do next.
September was certainly busy.

And we’re already looking ahead to October. 🇪🇸13 years in flexible workspace, and this is still a conversation that comes up regularly.

Dirección

Calle Gerardo Diego
Alhaurín De La Torre
29130

Página web

http://www.malagaexpat.com/

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