Plots for sale in Casares Playa

Building land this close to the sea is rare on the western Costa del Sol, and Casares Playa still has some. Around seven plots for sale in Casares Playa are with us at any time — residential land, averaging a thousand square metres, from about 297,000 euros to 1.3 million. Further east, on the New Golden Mile and into Marbella, a coastal plot of that size at that price has not existed for years.

What is actually for sale

Residential plots inside or beside the existing urbanisations, nearly all of them already serviced or with services at the boundary. This is not farmland and it is not mountain: it is the gaps that were left when the strip was built out over the last three decades, which is why the sizes are regular and the planning position is usually clear.

What a plot price carries

The permitted building volume, not the square metres of ground. Two plots of the same size on the same street can be worth very different sums if one allows two storeys and the other one. That ratio is set by the municipal plan, not by what a neighbour managed ten years ago, and it is the first thing to have checked.

What you should budget beyond the price

Transfer tax, notary and registry on the purchase as usual — 10 to 13 per cent. Then the project: architect, licence, build. On this coast a licence takes months rather than weeks and a build is measured in years rather than months, and both run on the municipality's timetable, not yours. Price the finished house, not the land.

The coastal law

Spanish law defines a public domain and a protection zone inland of the high-water mark, and on a two-kilometre coast a plot can easily fall within it. What that permits is a question for a lawyer and for the municipal planning office before you make an offer — not a detail to settle afterwards.

What to check before you buy

Three documents, in this order. The planning certificate: what the plot is classified as and what volume it permits. The services: water, power and drainage at the boundary or a cost you have not yet counted. And the register entry: boundaries, charges and whether anyone else has a right of way across it. Our agents will pull all three before you commit.

Where to go from here

Everything in the district is on property for sale in Casares Playa; finished houses are under houses and flats under apartments. Land across the whole municipality, coast and inland together, is on plots in Casares; west of here plots in Manilva and east plots in Estepona. If nothing in the list above fits yet, our property alarm will mail you when something does.

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