LONDON - AUSTRALIAN pop star Kylie Minogue and her Spanish boyfriend are shopping for a home and about to announced their engagement said media reports on Monday.

The pair have been dating since meeting at a party in Paris last year, reported The Courier-Mail newspaper.

According to reports, Minogue and Andres Velencoso been looking at property in the fishing village of Tossa Del Mar, a few miles north of Barcelona.

Tossa Del Mar is where the 31-year-old model was born and his father and younger sisters continue to live in the area. Velencoso's mother died seven years ago.

"I'm happier with him than I have ever been before, you never know he could be the one," she reportedly confided at the Cannes Film Festival.

"He is great, who knows what the future holds but hopefully things will work out."

Kylie confirmed she is learning Spanish "because it would make things easier" and has taken up golf, one of his passions.

Those close to Kylie said the 40-year-old is completely smitten and unlike with past love, Olivier Martinez, feels wanted, reported news.com.au.

"She feels loved, adored and wanted," a friend said, adding her parents approved on the dart-loving soccer-mad Spaniard.

Meanwhile, it could be a double announcement with rumours that sister Dannii Minogue has also been proposed to by former rugby player turned model Kris Smith.