Sworn translation in Marbella

In Marbella a signing table can bring together a Swedish seller, a buyer from the Gulf and a Luxembourg bank, each arriving with their paperwork in their own language. Behind the postcard of the Golden Mile and Puerto Banús sits a city of communities settled here for decades —British, Scandinavian, Nordic, Middle Eastern families— who buy homes, set up companies, put their children through school and, sooner or later, run into the same paper wall. A deed, a power of attorney, a marriage certificate or a criminal record check carries no weight before the Spanish authorities while it stays in English, French, Swedish or Arabic. Before it reaches the notary, the Land Registry or the Immigration Office in Málaga, that document needs a sworn translation into Spanish.

Textualia handles that step entirely online, at the pace of people who split their week between Marbella, London and the departures hall at Málaga airport. You upload the document, see the final price there and then and, once you pay, you receive the sworn translation as an electronically signed PDF, fully valid in Spain before notaries, registries, courts and the Andalusian regional administration. And when a procedure calls for a paper original, we send the copy on official stamped paper by courier anywhere along the Costa del Sol.

A sworn translation by a translator accredited by Spain's MAEC is fully valid throughout Spain, which covers the procedures Marbella residents meet most often:

• Property transactions: foreign deeds, powers of attorney and certificates before a notary and the Land Registry.
• Residence and immigration: paperwork for the Immigration Office in Málaga and the local consulates.
• Company formation and corporate filings at the Commercial Registry of Málaga.
• Civil status: birth, marriage or death certificates for the Civil Registry.
• Inheritance and probate: foreign wills, death certificates and grants of representation executed abroad.
• Education: degrees and transcripts for recognition or enrolment, including at the nearby University of Málaga (UMA).

These are the documents we are most often asked to translate in Marbella:

• Deeds, powers of attorney and title certificates for property transactions.
• Apostilled criminal record checks for the digital nomad visa and residence: FBI (USA), ACRO (UK) or bulletin no. 3 (France), translated into Spanish.
• Birth, marriage and death certificates and foreign family record books.
• Wills and inheritance papers executed abroad.
• University degrees, diplomas and academic transcripts for official recognition.
• Company bylaws, annual accounts and commercial contracts.

Few places in Spain see as much cross-border property activity as Marbella. Along the Golden Mile, in Nueva Andalucía or Sierra Blanca, a single deal often pairs a seller from one country, a buyer from another and financing from a third. That mix of flags drags foreign paperwork into every file: powers of attorney granted in London or Dubai, single-status certificates, bank statements, tax returns and earlier deeds. None of it gets past a Spanish notary or the Land Registry without a sworn translation into Spanish that the notary can attach to the deed with full legal certainty.

We work regularly with lawyers, gestorías, estate agents and family offices that need to reach completion without the translation turning into the bottleneck. That is why we lead with English and French, the two languages you hear most at a Marbella signing table, with a fixed price from the outset and an electronically signed PDF ready to file. When the notary asks for the paper original, we send it on official stamped paper to the office you tell us.