NE-VM-3B3B-V2101Ground Floor Apartment in La Quinta431 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 1,895,000Apartments for sale in La Quinta
9 properties for sale in La Quinta · € 1,200,000 to € 3,500,000 · median € 7,673/m²
NE-VM-3B3B-V2101Ground Floor Apartment in La Quinta431 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 1,895,000
NE-SMA-4B4B-13BPenthouse in La Quinta548 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 3,495,000
NE-TIA-3B3B-40BApartment in La Quinta202 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 1,550,000
NE-TIA-3B3B-63AMiddle Floor Apartment in La Quinta290 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 2,300,000
NE-SMA-2B2B-12AMiddle Floor Apartment in La Quinta237 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 1,495,000
NE-SMA-3B3B-11AGround Floor Apartment in La Quinta516 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 1,950,000
NE-SOL-2B2B-11BApartment in Los Arqueros136 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 1,195,000
NE-SOL-3B3B-10AApartment in Los Arqueros186 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 2,150,000
NE-SOL-3B3B-20AApartment in Los Arqueros185 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 1,990,000Why apartments for sale in La Quinta are cut into the slope
This page carries 9 apartments, from € 1,200,000 to € 3,500,000, with the middle of the list at € 2,000,000, an average interior of 303 square metres, an average terrace of 97 square metres and a median of € 7,673 per square metre. 6 of them stand in La Quinta itself; the others are in Los Arqueros, the next golf district along the same hillside.
A flat on this hillside is not the thing the word describes on the coast below. La Quinta is a benched golf slope on the Benahavís side of the Golf Valley, laid out around a country club in the late nineteen-eighties and built upwards in stages ever since, and the apartment schemes on it were drawn for the gradient rather than for a seafront. That single fact — building into a hill instead of along a shore — shapes the floor plans, the terraces, the aspect and what the outdoor space is actually for.
Because a hillside gives a building something level ground cannot: depth at the bottom and a horizon at the top. A block benched into a gradient has no bad side to hide, since the hill takes the back and the valley takes the front.
What a gradient does to a floor plan
Set a building against a slope and the lowest level gains depth: rooms extend back under the terrace of the level above, and the result is a flat with far more floor area than the footprint of the block would suggest. That area is real and it is registered, and it appears in the particulars as interior square metres like any other. What it does not all have is a window.
Area built into the hill, and which of it sees daylight
Floor area cut into a hill costs less to create than floor area with a façade on three sides, and the saving reaches the asking price. So the useful question on a deep hillside flat is how much of the plan is habitable room with a view out and how much is corridor, store, utility, cinema or guest space lit from a lightwell. Both kinds of area have value, and they do not have the same value. The format in question is at ground floor apartments.
Low blocks stepping down the contour
Nothing on this hillside was built tall. The benches are too narrow and the views too valuable to stack, so the schemes here run low and long, two or three levels at a time, each stepped back so the terrace of one is the roof line of the next. Stepping a scheme down a contour gives nearly every flat an open front — which is why a middle floor here behaves like a top floor somewhere flat.
The terraces of the apartments for sale in La Quinta do the work of gardens
On a benched plot the outdoor space is the main room for most of the year, and it is sized accordingly rather than as a balcony with a table on it.
Outdoor space measured like a plot
The terrace of a hillside flat here is laid on the bench itself, so it runs the width of the building and comes with planting rather than railings. A terrace on this slope looks over a valley instead of into a neighbouring block, which is the difference between a space you furnish and a space you walk through. The whole district is at La Quinta.
Aspect decides more than size at this height
On flat ground orientation is a preference; on a gradient it is a timetable. The hill behind takes the low winter sun away early and the hill opposite can take it sooner still, so a south-west terrace holds the afternoon into December while one tucked under the slope loses it after lunch. Check which way the terrace faces before you fall for how big it is.
Glass, shade and the winter afternoon
These flats are glazed for the view, which means a lot of south and west-facing glass and a lot of sun landing on it. The schemes that work best through the year are the ones with deep overhangs, outside blinds or a pergola on the terrace, because shade at this elevation has to be built rather than planted. A deep overhang is worth more here than any amount of glass.
Where the apartments for sale in La Quinta sit, and what the height buys
Above San Pedro de Alcántara and behind the coast, on a golf hillside that belongs to the municipality of Benahavís rather than to Marbella.
Height, view and the valley in between
The whole proposition of this slope is elevation: you are above the coastal strip looking down it, with golf on the valley floor and the sea in the distance rather than at your feet. On a clear morning the view runs the length of the bay to Gibraltar. A flat on a bench looks over the roofs below it instead of at them, which is the one thing a ground-floor apartment on the shore can never offer at any price.
The drive, which is the trade
Bread, school, the beach, a restaurant in January: all of it involves the car. The roads are good and the runs are short — a quarter of an hour gets you to the coast or up to the village — but a short run is still a run, and there is no bus and no shop on the slope. Anybody who is used to walking to things should drive the week before buying into it rather than reading the minutes off a map.
Which town hall the apartments for sale in La Quinta answer to
Benahavís, not Marbella, and it is worth knowing because almost everything else about the hillside points the other way. The road that serves it comes up from the coast at San Pedro, the shops and schools people here use are in Marbella and Nueva Andalucía, and plenty of particulars describe the position by reference to Marbella because that is how buyers think about it. The municipality is the authority that licenses what gets built on the ground around you, and that authority sits in the mountain village fifteen minutes up the valley.
Los Arqueros, the next golf district along the same road
The list on this page reaches into the neighbouring golf address up the same approach, with every tile naming its district and the filter isolating one of them in a click. That neighbour sits on easier ground, which shows up in the asking prices as well as in the gradients, and it is the obvious second stop for anyone looking at a flat up here. The municipal list is at apartments in Benahavís, and the golf-side homes on this hillside at golf property here.
What the apartment schemes of La Quinta look like from the gate
Small gated communities on their own bench, planted rather than paved, with the building set back behind the planting and a lane rather than a street in front of it.
Gated grounds planted on the contour
The grounds of a hillside scheme are terraced like everything else: cut banks held by walls, planting that grows down the slope, steps and lit paths rather than lawns. Thirty years of irrigation have made the mature schemes genuinely green, which on this coast is not a given. Planting on a bench gives privacy that a fence on flat ground cannot.
Pools on platforms, and where the sun reaches them
A communal pool up here sits on a cut platform, usually at the level of the lowest block and usually with the valley open in front of it. The thing worth looking at is the shadow line: a pool platform with the hill close behind it comes out of the sun early in the afternoon from October onwards. A pool in shade by three o'clock is a summer pool only.
Parking under the building, because the lane has nowhere to put it
There is no kerbside parking on a benched lane, so the cars go underneath: a ramp down from the entrance into a garage cut into the hill, with a lift up through the block where the scheme has one. Covered parking is part of the purchase on a hillside rather than an extra, and the same excavation gives the dry, cool storage a coastal flat never has.
Which level you actually walk in on
On a stepped scheme the entrance is rarely at the bottom of the building, so the floor named in the particulars and the floor you arrive at are two different things: a lower ground flat can be the one you walk straight into, and a top floor can be the one at street level. Ask which bench the door is on and whether there is a lift between the garage and it, because on this gradient that answer decides what the flat is like to live in with shopping in both hands.
The year in an apartment in La Quinta
Four seasons rather than two, which is the real difference between a hillside flat and a beach one. The calendar up here is set by the golf and the schools below rather than by the summer, so the district has people in it in February.
A terrace in use for eleven months
With the right aspect the outdoor room up here works from February to December, because the air is dry, the mornings are clear and the valley keeps the wind off. A terrace you can use in winter is a room, not a balcony, and on this slope that is the single most valuable square metre in the flat.
August, and the hour the breeze arrives
High summer is the one season when the shore has the advantage, because the sea breeze takes its time getting this far up. What the hillside answers with is shade: deep terraces, grown planting and a slope that loses the sun early in the evening. Nights up here are noticeably kinder than nights on the strip, and the pool in the grounds is a residents' pool in August rather than a queue for a sunbed.
Letting a large flat up here, if that is the plan
It works, though not on the terms a beach flat works on: no guest walks to the sand from here, so what gets booked is the space, the terrace and the course in the valley. The golfing months are the ones in which a rental on the shore stands empty, so the calendar fills from the wrong end, and the bookings tend to be longer and fewer — a fortnight to a family or a month to a pair of couples rather than a week at a time all summer. A flat with the area of a house suits that pattern better than a two-bedroom near the sand ever will. The practical side of it is at rental services.
Who the apartments for sale in La Quinta suit
The buyer trading a villa for space without grounds
This is the clearest fit. A flat here offers the floor area, the ceiling heights and the outdoor space of a substantial house, with the garden, the pool and the gate handled collectively and the maintenance shared out. For somebody leaving a villa without wanting to leave the rooms behind, there is very little else like it.
The buyer who wants the view from a terrace rather than a garden to mow
Elevation sells itself at a viewing, and on this hillside it comes without the acre of planting that a villa on the same bench would bring with it. What protects the outlook is the ground in front, so the slope suits a buyer who wants to know what stands on that ground before the offer rather than after it. A view over roofs is a different asset from a view over a valley, and from a terrace it takes ten minutes to tell which of the two you are being shown.
Selling apartments for sale in La Quinta on again
Worth a thought at the purchase rather than at the exit. What a finished flat on this hillside has, and a drawing of one does not, is a garden that has grown in, a terrace whose aspect can be stood on in January and a view whose foreground is already settled. Buy the things that cannot be drawn and the resale argues itself; buy floor area without asking how much of it has daylight, and you will be explaining that to somebody else later.
Who should be looking at the coast instead
Anyone whose week starts with a walk to the sand, a shop or a bar, and anyone who wants a dozen comparable flats to see in one morning — this is a thin slope where little comes up at a time. The valley below has the depth instead, at Nueva Andalucía, and the town at the bottom of the hill is San Pedro de Alcántara. Our agents will tell you plainly which schemes up here suit the week you actually have in mind.
Questions about apartments for sale in La Quinta
Why do hillside apartments for sale in La Quinta have such deep ground floors?
Because the buildings are cut into a slope. On a gradient the lowest level gains depth — rooms run back under the terrace above — so a ground floor among the apartments for sale in La Quinta can carry far more floor area than the footprint of the block suggests, and area built into a hill costs less to create than area with a façade on three sides. The question worth asking is how much of that registered area has natural light. Get the drawing with the openings marked on it and divide the plan in two: habitable rooms with a view out on one side; corridor, store, utility and guest space lit from a lightwell on the other. Both are worth something, and they are not worth the same. The format is at ground floor apartments.
How big are the apartments in La Quinta compared with a coastal flat?
Larger, and the reason is the land rather than the fashion. The schemes on this hillside sit on benched plots that were cheap when the district was laid out around its golf club, so the apartments for sale in La Quinta were drawn on the scale of houses, with terraces sized like gardens and ceiling heights to match. The average interior and the average terrace of what we currently list here stand in the figures above the text, recounted from our listings on every feed run. For the municipal picture see apartments in Benahavís.
Do the apartments for sale in La Quinta include golf?
No, and the two are sold separately. The course on the valley floor shapes the district and is visible from much of it, but ownership and the right to play are different things, so ask what the arrangement is for the specific scheme — a right, a waiting list, an annual fee — and whether anything transfers with the property. Take the answer in writing rather than from a brochure, because this is the point buyers most often assume. The golf-side listings across the municipality are at golf residences in Benahavís.
Is La Quinta in Marbella or in Benahavís?
In Benahavís, although nearly everything about daily life here points at Marbella. The road comes up from the coast at San Pedro de Alcántara, the shops and schools people use are on the Marbella side, and many particulars describe the position by reference to Marbella because that is how buyers think about the area — but the hillside is administratively part of the mountain municipality, whose town hall sits in the village fifteen minutes up the valley and licenses what gets built on the ground around you. The municipality in full is at Benahavís.
What is the winter like for the apartments for sale in La Quinta?
A real season, and it is the test worth applying to the apartments for sale in La Quinta. Above the coastal strip the evenings are cooler, the mornings are clear and dry, and a terrace facing the hill rather than the valley sits in shade for much of a winter afternoon. So check the aspect before the size of the terrace, look for a deep overhang or an outside blind, and if you can, stand on it late in the day in January rather than at midday in July. The upside is a district that does not shut down: golf keeps a resident population here through the cold months, and the view that is hazy in August runs to Africa in February. Our agents will arrange a viewing at the hour that actually tells you something.
