MDCI Blog

Hiring an architect in Spain is one of the most important steps in your construction project. From verifying accreditation and insurance to defining the scope of services, agreeing fees, and signing a watertight contract, there are key steps that protect you throughout the process. With over 25 years of experience, MDCI’s Project Managers guide clients in choosing the right architect and ensuring contracts are fair and compliant. Why is Choosing the Right Architect Important? How Can I Find an Architect That Suits My Style and Needs? What Services Does an Architect Typically Provide in Spain?

As the property development landscape evolves, many developers are taking projects further—completing designs, obtaining licences, and preparing sites for immediate construction—to appeal to investors and home builders seeking reduced risk and faster timelines. MDCI, with nearly 30 years of experience managing complex developments, helps prepare these advanced opportunities for market. Whether you're looking to sell a ready-to-build site at a premium or invest in a project with the groundwork already done, our team provides expert support to streamline the process and ensure success.

When a hotel renovation in Spain spiraled out of control—missing licences, absent contracts, unpaid suppliers, and mismanaged timelines—MDCI was brought in to assess and advise. Although the project was ultimately beyond rescue, it serves as a cautionary tale. In this article, we break down what went wrong, and how future construction and refurbishment projects can avoid similar pitfalls through proper planning, clear contracts, timely payments, and professional project management from day one.

The last few years have seen a real boom in construction, but this survey suggests a slight slowdown, compared to previous quarters. This is certainly not a downturn, RICS refer to it simply as “decelerating growth across the industry”, adding that “twelve-month expectations for workloads are still positive across all sectors at the worldwide aggregate level”. There’s good news for MDCI’s base country of Spain. The survey revealed that Spain is the top performing country in Europe as respondents cite decent growth in activity across all sectors. The Construction Industry Sentiment sits at +46, although it was a slight drop from the last survey.

Project Consultants are highly valuable to the success of a project, offering benefits including better compliance, cost savings, and a smoother process through tricky stages such as licencing applications, contract negotiations and development process and feedback systems. When you’re developing in Spain, and dealing with different rules, regulations and building practices, in a foreign language and with unfamiliar construction processes, this is even more valuable. In this blog, we’ll be going into depth on the benefits of hiring a project consultant in Spain and explaining how MDCI’s project consulting service can help you.

There’s a common misconception that project managers are only needed by people without building or development experience, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. While of course, we can help someone to build their dream home, it’s developers that will most benefit from an experienced, independent Project Manager. For maximum value, we should be involved from the initial concept and planning stage, through to the very end, supporting our clients, every step of the way. In this article, we’ll be detailing what those steps are and why our involvement is so positive to the Developer, as well as the end user.

If you would like us to hold your hand and take away the stress and pressure of building a family home in Spain, we can be with you every step of the way. Having an independent, professional Project Manager on your side from the very beginning of the project makes all the difference when it comes to success or failure. With MDCI, you know you’ll be on time and on budget and have the house of your dreams! Contact us to find out more.

2024 was a very busy year for MDCI, supporting a range of clients to build in Spain in a number of ways. These include; undertaking due diligence and project viability studies, managing project bidding and value engineering processes, project management and project rescue services. We’re definitely not alone in having a busy year, we’ve seen the whole real estate and construction industry across Spain, and particularly on the Costa del Sol increasing in strength and this seems set to continue, thanks to high demand from buyers and low supply of properties.

SIMED is Malaga’s annual property event, which took place between the 7th and 9th of November at the Palacio de Congresos in Malaga. Mark Lawson and the MDCI team visited as they do every year to link up with contacts and friends in the second home market. Attending these shows is a very good way to get a check on the property market. It allows us to have in-depth conversations to find out more from trusted partners regarding issues with supply and demand, as well as buyer trends and requirements. This knowledge helps our team better advise our project development clients on what developments the market is demanding, support them with setting prices and also support our luxury villa clients on building the most desirable villa for resale.