Property for sale in Casares

Apartments, which are most of it

Flats outnumber everything else here by a wide margin, and they sit in schemes built over the last three decades between the motorway and the sand or up on the golf slopes behind it. They are the reason this municipality has a reputation for value: a two-bedroom with a pool and a beach walk costs what an inland flat without a view costs further east. The list is at apartments in Casares and, at the top, penthouses.

Village houses

At the bottom of this page are houses in the old village: narrow, tall, built against the rock, with a roof terrace and a view that no coastal flat can match. Some are habitable and some need everything. For a buyer who wants a project rather than a product, and who is prepared to work with local builders and a local architect, nothing else on this coast offers so much character for so little money.

Townhouses and villas near the coast

Between the flats and the fincas sits a modest supply of houses: terraced rows inside the coastal urbanisations, semi-detached pairs on the golf slopes, and detached villas with their own pools on larger plots looking down at the sea. A garden here does not mean taking on farmland, which is what makes this the practical group for a family. See houses in Casares and detached villas.

Fincas and rural land

Old farmhouses, olive and almond terraces, grazing land, and the occasional restored cortijo with a pool and a track leading to it. These are the properties that make people fall in love, and the ones where the land weighs more than the building: a finca here is bought for its acres, its water and the direction it faces, and the house standing on it is often the smallest part of the decision. The list is at fincas in Casares.

Plots

Serviced building land still exists here, inside the coastal urbanisations and on the golf slopes, which makes building your own house a realistic option rather than a fantasy. It is slower and it needs professionals, and in exchange you choose the orientation, the layout and the view instead of inheriting someone else's. Start from plots in Casares.

The gentlest entry price on this coast

Nothing else we list starts this low. At the bottom of this page is a village house needing work, or a small flat in an older coastal scheme with a communal pool. Both are honest purchases rather than wrecks, and both put you in a municipality with three golf courses, an empty beach and a protected mountain behind it. This is the least expensive way onto this coast that does not involve a compromise you would regret.

The middle

A three-bedroom flat on the golf side with a terrace and a view, a ground floor with a real garden near the beach, or a townhouse in a gated row with a patio and a garage. Around the middle of this list the choice is wide and the quality is good: much of this stock is recent enough to be well insulated, with sealed terraces and glazing that holds the heat out in August.

The upper market

Detached houses with private pools on large plots, the restored fincas, and the properties around the eastern resort. At this level Casares competes directly with Estepona, and the same money buys space and quiet instead of bustle. A buyer comparing a villa here against a flat on the Golden Mile at the same money is making a genuine choice rather than settling.

New build, and why there is so much of it

Developers ran out of affordable land further east and came here, so much of this list was finished in the last few years or is finishing now. For a buyer at this price level that is a genuine stroke of luck: current insulation, double or triple glazing, sealed terraces, lifts that reach the garage and a structural guarantee that still has years left on it, at figures that would buy a tired resale in the fashionable municipalities. The trade is a service charge that reflects the installations, and a community with no history yet to read. What is on site right now, at every stage from plans to keys, sits under new developments.

The practicalities

Supermarkets, a health centre, schools and a weekly market are all in place on the coastal side, with Estepona a quarter of an hour east for anything larger and Sotogrande and Gibraltar a short run west. The motorway junction is immediate, so the distances read shorter than they look on a map. You will want a car; the distances are short and the traffic that clogs the eastern coast never reaches here.

The hills and the walking

Behind the village the Sierra Crestellina rises into a protected reserve with a resident colony of griffon vultures circling it most afternoons, and there are marked routes up through the cork oaks for anyone who walks. Down in a nearby valley sit sulphur springs the Romans built baths around, still open to anyone prepared to find the track. None of this is in the property particulars, and all of it is part of what you are buying.

Winter, honestly

It is quiet. Not deserted — the coastal side keeps its shops, its clinic and a fair number of its restaurants open, and the village above has never had a season to close for — but the holiday rhythm stops in October and restarts at Easter. Whether that reads as peace or as emptiness depends entirely on the person, and nobody can answer it on your behalf. Come for a weekend in January before committing to live here; it takes two days and it settles the question for good.

Letting

Summer fills itself near the beach, golf fills the months either side of summer, and winter brings long lets from northern Europeans. The result is a calendar with three tenants in it rather than one: a week on the sand in August, a fortnight within reach of a first tee in May, and a monthly rent through the winter from somebody who has left the cold behind. Which of the three a flat draws depends on how far it stands from the beach and from the clubhouse. Our rental service carries the licence, the calendar, the changeovers and the quarterly returns for owners who want the return and not the admin.