Property for sale in Casares Golf

28 properties for sale in Casares Golf · € 395,000 to € 6,500,000 · median € 5,849/m²

Casares Golf is the stretch of the Casares coast strip laid out around its golf course, between Estepona and the Manilva boundary and a few minutes inland from the sand. There are 28 properties for sale in Casares Golf at the moment, from € 395,000 to € 6,500,000, with the middle of the list at € 850,000, an average built area of 240 square metres and a median of € 5,949 per square metre. One fact about this list matters more than any of those figures, and it is unusual enough that it belongs in the first paragraph: not one property on it is a resale.

Every property for sale in Casares Golf is new construction

Look down the list and the condition field says the same thing on every line. That is not a quirk of what we happen to hold this month. It is what the district is: ground that was zoned, serviced and built out recently, in phases, by developers who are still selling the later ones. There is no older layer underneath because there was never an older village here to begin with.

Why that makes this the longest list of its kind on the site

Several districts on this site carry nothing but new building — small ones, mostly, of a dozen listings or so. This one is the biggest of them, which means it offers a deeper choice of new homes in one place than anywhere between Marbella and the province border. If a new build is what you came for, the comparison you want to make is possible here and barely possible elsewhere.

What it changes about the price you are reading

A developer price is not a seller price. It moves with the phase rather than with the mood of an owner, it rises as the units sell rather than falling as a property sits, and it is the same figure for everybody who asks. That cuts both ways: there is less room in it than in a resale asking price, and there is also far less risk that you are the one buyer paying over the odds.

And what it changes about the purchase

Buying new is a different transaction rather than a newer version of the same one. You sign a contract and pay in stages against a bank guarantee instead of handing over the whole price at a notary on one morning. The tax is different — value added tax and stamp duty instead of transfer tax, which is the single largest number on the completion statement and the one buyers most often budget wrongly. Anything still under construction across the five municipalities is gathered on new developments.

Where the property for sale in Casares Golf actually sits

The name of the municipality belongs to two quite different places, and confusing them is the commonest mistake made about property for sale in Casares Golf. Casares the village is a white town stacked on a crag in the hills, famous in photographs and a genuine drive from the water. Casares the coast is a flat ribbon of beach, golf and building between Estepona and Manilva on the main road. This district is the second of those.

The strip, not the crag

So the postcard village is a scenic half hour away rather than a neighbourhood. What is actually around you is the coast road, the beach a short drive or a long walk to the south, the courses immediately inland, and the two towns at either end for everything you cannot buy in a petrol station. Decide which of the two Casares you want before you decide anything else about this district.

The golf around it

The municipality is unusually well supplied for its size. There is the course the district is named for on the strip itself, a second longer course in the hills behind, and above them the resort course that has hosted a Solheim Cup and a world match play — which is a sentence very few municipalities of this size can write. For a golfer, that density is the argument; for everybody else it is the reason the ground was serviced at all.

What is within a short drive

Estepona to the east, with its old town, its hospital and its marina. Sabinillas and the port at Duquesa to the west, which is where the cheaper weekly shopping and the quieter restaurants are. Gibraltar and its airport to the south, close enough to use for a weekend rather than a holiday. And Málaga, which is the long leg of the journey and the reason anybody thinking about property for sale in Casares Golf should drive it once before buying rather than reading a distance from a brochure.

What the property for sale in Casares Golf is made of

Flats first, houses second

Roughly two in three listings are apartments and the rest are houses, which is the usual shape of a planned coastal district and the opposite of the villages inland. Among the apartments the middle floor dominates, with a scattering of ground floors and a single top floor. Among the houses, terraced is the normal form and the detached villa the exception. The flats have a list of their own at apartments in Casares Golf and the houses at houses in Casares Golf, where six of eight are terraced and the dearest is one of them. The municipal lists are apartments in Casares and houses in Casares.

Three bedrooms as the default

More than half the list has three, the rest splits between two and four, and nothing has one or five. That is a narrower band than it sounds and it tells you who these schemes were drawn for: a family that uses the place in the holidays and lets it or leaves it the rest of the year. A buyer who wants a studio or a six-bedroom house is in the wrong district, and no amount of waiting will change that, because the phases still to come are drawn to the same brief.

Terraces, and the figure that leaves them out

The average terrace here runs to a substantial fraction of the average interior, and on the larger apartments it is a room in its own right rather than a ledge with a chair on it. None of that appears in a price per square metre, because the rate is reckoned on built area alone. So two listings at the same rate can offer wildly different amounts of usable space, and on a coast where you eat outdoors eight months of the year that is not a detail. Read the terrace figure as part of the size, not as an extra.

The two listings with a plot

Almost nothing here records one, which is what you would expect where the stock is flats and terraced houses in schemes. Two properties do, and both are detached. If owning the ground matters to you — and it should, because it is the part of a purchase that cannot be renovated or added — then those two are the whole of this district for you, and the wider lists are plots and detached villas.

The spread inside the property for sale in Casares Golf list

Here is where a careful buyer should slow down. The gentlest metre and the steepest in this scheme differ by a factor of four, and the asking prices by a great deal more than that. A single average over a list like this one describes nothing real. There are two distinct products under one heading.

The top of the list

A handful of properties sit far above the rest: a detached villa, a terraced house of unusual size, and two very large apartments, all of them pricing near or above ten thousand per square metre. These are the trophy end of the district and they compete not with the flats below them but with houses in Marbella and Benahavís. Measure them against pure luxury rather than against their neighbours.

The body of the list

Below them sits the real market: two and three bedroom apartments and terraced houses between roughly five and seven thousand a metre, which on this coast is an ordinary figure for new building near the sea and a cheap one for new building near the sea with a view of it. This is the part of the list most buyers looking at property for sale in Casares Golf will actually be choosing from.

And the three listings that look cheap

Three apartments on this page price under four thousand a metre, which is startling next to their neighbours. The explanation is almost always floor area: they are large, and large units in a new scheme are sold at a lower rate per metre than small ones. That is a genuine opportunity for a buyer who wants space and a trap for one who reads the low rate as a reflection of the position. Read the two figures together or neither of them means anything.

What every property for sale in Casares Golf records

Golf on most of them, and the water to the south

Most, but not all, of the listings record a position by the golf — which for a district named after the course is worth knowing, because it means the name is not a guarantee. The land slopes gently south and nothing tall stands in front of it yet, so the water is in view from much of the strip; we do not put a figure on that, because the feed these new schemes arrive on marks every property as having a sea view whether or not it does. Check what your particular terrace faces rather than reading it off a page. The golf-tagged stock of this district has a page of its own at golf property in Casares Golf, and the municipal attribute lists are golf property in Casares and beachfront in Casares.

Gated, guarded and pooled

These are gated developments rather than public streets, and most have a communal pool and a communal landscaped garden. This is a district of schemes rather than streets, and that is a lifestyle decision as much as a security one: the gate that keeps strangers out also means a community, a quota, an annual general meeting and a set of rules about what you may do with your own terrace.

The one with a lift

Exactly one listing records a lift. In a district of low-rise blocks and terraced houses that is unremarkable — until you are sixty-five with a suitcase and a first-floor flat, or you are buying with letting in mind and half your guests are not twenty-five. Ask about stairs on every single viewing here, because the feed will usually not tell you and the brochure never will.

Before you commit to property for sale in Casares Golf

The questions that only apply to new building

Which phase is this, and is it finished or being finished? Who is the developer and what else have they completed on this coast? Where is the bank guarantee for your stage payments, and in whose name? What is the handover date in the contract rather than in the conversation? And what will the community quota be once the whole scheme is occupied, which is a very different figure from the one quoted while two blocks stand empty.

What to check about the course

A fairway in front of a terrace is somebody else business, and businesses change hands. Ask who owns the club, what condition its accounts are in and how the land it sits on is zoned. In a district whose name is the course, that question reaches further than any other you can ask, and it is answerable in an afternoon at the town hall.

The rest of the municipality

Worth seeing on the same day, because the differences are large and the drive is minutes. The beach strip at Casares Playa is substantially cheaper per metre and mostly resale, which is the opposite of this page in both respects. The whole municipality, every type and every district together, is on property for sale in Casares.

And if nothing here fits today

Which is likely, because a district of this size produces a handful of genuinely new listings a year and the phases arrive when they arrive rather than when you are looking. Set the criteria once and our property alarm writes to you the morning a matching property for sale in Casares Golf reaches our books — which, in a market where the developer sells the best units of a phase before the phase is advertised, is worth more here than almost anywhere.

Questions about property in Casares Golf

Is there any resale property for sale in Casares Golf?

Not today: the property for sale in Casares Golf comes from schemes still being built, and the resale market here has barely begun. That is a fact about the district rather than about our month — the ground here was serviced and built out recently and in phases, so there is no older layer of housing underneath to resell. If you want a resale on this part of the coast, the nearest deep market is Casares Playa, where almost everything is second-hand and the square metre is substantially cheaper.

How far is the beach, and how far is the village of Casares?

The beach is a short drive or a long walk south across the coast road; the white village on the crag that gives the municipality its name is a scenic half hour inland and is not a neighbourhood of this district in any practical sense. Buyers conflate the two constantly. If the village itself is what drew you, look at the hill rather than the strip; if the water is what drew you, the front line is gathered under beachfront property in Casares.

Why does the price per square metre of property for sale in Casares Golf vary so much?

Because two different products share one district name. A handful of large houses and very large apartments sit at the trophy end and price near or above ten thousand a metre; the body of the list is two and three bedroom homes at roughly half that; and a few unusually large flats look cheap per metre precisely because they are large. Never read the rate without reading the floor area beside it. The figures in the table on this page are recounted from our own listings every time the page loads, so you can do that arithmetic yourself. The two halves of the property for sale in Casares Golf list have their own municipal pages at apartments in Casares and houses in Casares.

What does the golf actually get me?

A view, quiet, and a green belt that cannot be built on while the club holds the land — not the right to play, which is a separate contract with its own annual cost. Most of the listings here record golf, and the slope faces the water, so check which of the two your particular terrace actually looks at before assuming. The cross-municipality list is golf property, and the course-side stock of the whole municipality is under golf property in Casares.

What should I check before buying property for sale in Casares Golf?

Four things before you commit to a property for sale in Casares Golf, in this order. The phase and the handover date, in the contract rather than in conversation. The bank guarantee covering your stage payments, in writing and in your name. The community quota as it will be when the whole scheme is occupied, not as it is quoted while blocks stand empty. And the stairs, because almost nothing here records a lift. Our agents in Estepona will get the developer paperwork and the statutes before a viewing trip rather than during it.

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