R5536033Middle Floor Apartment in Costalita150 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 650,000Property for sale in Alcazaba Beach
35 properties for sale in Alcazaba Beach and nearby · € 399,000 to € 3,500,000 · median € 5,364/m²
R5536033Middle Floor Apartment in Costalita150 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 650,000
R5410105Middle Floor Apartment in Costalita155 m², 2 bed, 3 bath€ 2,290,000
R5535493Middle Floor Apartment in Costalita85 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 689,000
NERE-A-3B2B-09Ground Floor Apartment in Costalita137 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 1,495,000
NERE-A-3B3B-01Ground Floor Apartment in Alcazaba Beach147 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 2,995,000
R5502559Ground Floor Apartment in Costalita120 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 399,000
R5516758Detached Villa in Costalita398 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 2,295,000
R5512933Middle Floor Apartment in Costalita90 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 475,000
R5506300Detached Villa in El Saladillo100 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 990,000
R5514382Ground Floor Apartment in Costalita91 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 499,000
R5464114Ground Floor Apartment in Costalita124 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 399,000
R5454829Ground Floor Apartment in Costalita170 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 740,000
R5121478Middle Floor Apartment in Costalita100 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 469,000
R5126542Middle Floor Apartment in Costalita156 m², 2 bed, 3 bath€ 2,995,000
R5237518Ground Floor Apartment in Alcazaba Beach147 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 2,995,000
R5299987Townhouse in Costalita300 m², 4 bed, 5 bath€ 1,475,000
R5414497Top Floor Apartment in Costalita100 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 545,000
R5311477Ground Floor Apartment in Costalita137 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 1,495,000
R5163850Detached Villa in Costalita194 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 900,000
R5447443Middle Floor Apartment in Costalita81 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 480,000
R823240Middle Floor Apartment in Costalita200 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 1,500,000
R5417137Ground Floor Apartment in Costalita175 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 795,000
R5434795Ground Floor Apartment in Costalita208 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 795,000
R4287880Detached Villa in Costalita600 m², 5 bed, 5 bath€ 3,500,000
R5320612Residential Plot in Costalita0 bed, 0 bath€ 949,000
R3979624Detached Villa in Costalita600 m², 5 bed, 4 bath€ 2,400,000
R4958254Semi-Detached House in Costalita339 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 1,250,000
R4269226Duplex in Costalita300 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 715,000
R5221327Middle Floor Apartment in Costalita103 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 715,000
R5362099Middle Floor Apartment in Costalita168 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 715,000
R5433328Townhouse in Costalita315 m², 3 bed, 4 bath€ 1,295,000
R5196895Townhouse in Costalita175 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 650,000
R4821043Penthouse in Costalita241 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 2,795,000
R5410183Penthouse in Costalita180 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 2,799,999
R5394352Top Floor Apartment in Costalita133 m², 4 bed, 2 bath€ 590,000Urbanisations in this area: Costalita.
What the rate on property for sale in Alcazaba Beach buys
We hold 2 properties for sale in Alcazaba Beach, from € 3,000,000 to € 3,000,000, with an average interior of 147 square metres. Rates on the front line of this coast run far above the figure for the municipality as a whole, because the frontage was divided up decades ago and none of it is being added to.
A single gated complex is a short page. So this one explains what the rate buys, what the complex and the frontage around it are, and what the beach at the bottom of the gardens is actually like — and because one complex is no choice, the list itself reaches into the neighbouring strip, with the district named on every tile.
Front line, and the word means something precise here.
Nothing between the building and the sand
The listings describe a beachfront complex a short distance east of the centre of Estepona, on the stretch of coast where the Kempinski hotel and the older gated communities sit side by side. Front line on this coast means exactly one thing: no road, no building and no third party between the grounds and the beach. It cannot be created later and it cannot be taken away.
Which is why floor area is almost beside the point
A comfortable three-bedroom flat in a garden complex is nothing remarkable in itself, and the rate one carries on this frontage would buy a detached villa with a garden and a pool fifteen minutes inland. The difference between those two purchases is not the building, it is the thirty metres of sand.
And why the comparison with the municipality misleads
Estepona as a whole is one of the better-value markets on this coast, and the median metre across the municipality costs a small fraction of this figure. Set them side by side and this page looks absurd. Set it beside the other front-line complexes on the same strip and it looks ordinary. Compare like with like: beachfront property is the right list.
What the property for sale in Alcazaba Beach consists of
The flats, described plainly.
Flats in a garden complex, mostly of three bedrooms
Three bedrooms and three bathrooms, a fitted kitchen and a bright living room opening onto a terrace, in grounds with communal gardens and a pool. The ground floor is the floor to want in a beach community of this kind: the terrace works as a garden and the sand is a walk of seconds rather than a lift ride and a walk.
What the listing does not state
A terrace figure and a plot figure. On a ground-floor flat in a garden complex both are usually real and both are usually worth money, so ask for them in writing with a plan — and remember that no rate per square metre anywhere counts a metre of terrace, ours included.
What a page of one cannot tell you
Anything about range. In a complex this small there is no spread, no median and no second opinion inside the gate, so the honest comparison is with the neighbouring communities on the same strip — which is why the list below carries them too.
Where the property for sale in Alcazaba Beach sits
East of Estepona town, on the coastal strip the market calls the New Golden Mile.
The strip, and what is on it
A line of gated beach communities, hotels and low-rise schemes between the old coast road and the sand, running east from the town towards Marbella. The A-7 passes above, the promenade below, and the character changes every few hundred metres depending on which complex you are standing in.
The town is a drive, the beach is a doorstep
Estepona centre — the market, the chemists, the old streets with the flowers — is a short drive west. Nothing on this strip is a town in itself. A household here walks to the sea and drives to everything else, which is the trade every beach complex on this coast asks you to make.
What that means in winter
Quiet, sometimes very. Ask how many of the homes in the complex are occupied between November and March, and walk the strip on a weekday out of season before you commit. For some buyers that emptiness is the appeal; for others it is the reason they buy in the town instead.
And what is next door
Other gated communities of the same generation, a five-star hotel, and the beach bars that open with the season. The neighbouring markets with proper depth are Costalita to the west and Cancelada and Bel Air behind, all three a few minutes away and all three considerably cheaper by the metre.
What we cannot tell you about property for sale in Alcazaba Beach
One paragraph, because the alternative is quoting a template as though it were a measurement.
The feed flags every project home identically
This home reaches us through a feed that marks each property it carries as close to the sea, as having a sea view, as luxury and as gated, regardless of where the property actually is. The same flags appear on homes well inland, which is how you can tell they describe a project rather than a flat.
So there is no view figure here
On a front-line ground floor the view is usually garden and then water, but the figure would come from a field that says the same thing about everything. What we count instead is measured per home: price, floor area, bedrooms, bathrooms, pool, parking, garden, floor level.
Ask for two documents instead
A dated photograph taken from the terrace, and the floor plan with the compass on it. Between them they settle the view, the aspect and the morning sun in about a minute, which no flag in a database can.
What the strip around the property for sale in Alcazaba Beach was built, and when
Four generations of building, on a frontage that was finished long ago.
The first beach complexes came early
The earliest schemes on this frontage went up as low blocks standing in their own grounds, with the gardens brought right down to the sand and the buildings set back far enough that the planting rather than the render is what you see from the beach. The first generation on this shore was given more ground than any that followed, because the frontage was divided up when nobody was counting metres, and that is why an older complex here feels wider than a newer one of the same height.
The gated schemes followed
From the eighties onward the gaps between them filled with walled communities: a gate, a cabin, lawns, a pool, parking underneath and three or four storeys of flats arranged so that as many as possible face the water. Almost every community on this frontage has its own gate and its own gardens, which is why the character of the shore changes every few hundred metres instead of running continuously from one end to the other.
Then the hotels
A five-star hotel and its grounds sit on the same stretch, with a beach club, restaurants and planting of their own, and the effect on the neighbours is mostly good: a long maintained frontage, lighting, and a reason for the promenade to reach this far at all. A hotel on the frontage keeps the stretch maintained and lit through the winter, when a shore of second homes alone would be shuttered from November.
What has been built since, and where
Recent building on this part of the coast is almost all behind the old road rather than in front of it, because the seaward parcels were taken forty years ago and have not come back. New building here happens on the landward side of the road, which is why a buyer who wants both a current specification and a frontage normally has to choose between them. Anything still under construction nearby is at new developments.
And why no more of this frontage is being made
A shoreline that was divided decades ago between hotels, gated complexes and public beach leaves nothing further to allocate on this stretch, however strong the demand gets. The front line on this coast was finished before most of the housing behind it was begun, and that scarcity rather than the buildings themselves is what the rate per square metre pays for.
What the property for sale in Alcazaba Beach has inside the gate
What a front-line complex on this coast keeps up, and what it does not.
Gardens that run down to the sand
Lawns, palms, bougainvillea and grown shrubs laid out between the buildings and the beach, with paths through them and a gate at the bottom rather than a road. The gardens are what separate a front-line complex from a block with a sea view, and they are also the reason the sand feels like an extension of the grounds instead of a public place you cross a road to reach.
The pool, and where it sits
Communal, and set in the gardens between the buildings and the water, which on a frontage of this kind matters more than its size. A pool with the sea behind it is used from morning to evening and a pool in a courtyard is used at lunchtime, and for a household with small children that is the difference a terrace cannot make up.
The ground floors and the floors above
On a frontage like this the lowest storey carries a terrace that works as a garden and puts the sand within seconds of the door; the storeys above carry the horizon instead, and the top one a roof terrace as well. A terrace that works as a garden and a terrace that catches the horizon are two different products, and on this shore both arguments are good ones.
Parking, storerooms and the way in
Parking underneath or inside the gate, a storeroom for the beach things, a controlled entrance from the old road, and in most of these complexes a lift to every floor. A storeroom is worth more on a beach than anywhere else, because sand, boards, chairs and bicycles all have to live somewhere other than the terrace.
And what a complex like this does not have
Shops, a chemist, a school or anything else you would walk to: the frontage is residential, and the nearest ordinary errand is a drive west into the town. A front-line complex has a beach and no high street, which is the trade every address on this shore asks a buyer to make. The town itself is at Estepona Centre.
Letting out property for sale in Alcazaba Beach
It works here, with the usual two conditions.
What a front-line flat lets on
The position and very little else: a gate onto the sand, a pool in the gardens and a terrace facing the water, which is the one thing a tenant on this coast cannot find inland at any price. A front-line flat lets on its position rather than on its fittings, and a refurbished kitchen two streets back will not compete with it in July.
Who rents a front-line ground floor
Families, in long summer blocks, and they pay for the position rather than the fittings. A ground floor with a garden terrace lets more easily than an upper floor of the same size because it suits households with small children, which is most of the summer market on this coast.
And the season on a frontage like this one
Long in the summer, because families stay by the week rather than by the night, and short in the winter, because this stretch has no high street and little else open. A beach frontage fills from June to September and goes quiet after that, which is the opposite of the golf addresses behind the road. Our own approach is under rental services.
What stands near the property for sale in Alcazaba Beach
A single complex is no choice, so the list on this page reaches along the sand into the strip next door — each tile names its own district.
Costalita, along the same sand
The next strip west, with a real spread of flats and houses and a rate per square metre well below the front line — the same beach, a different product entirely. Its own page is property for sale in Costalita.
Bel Air and Cancelada, behind the road
Inland of the coast road, where the same money buys considerably more floor area and the beach becomes a walk of five or ten minutes. See Bel Air and Cancelada.
And the wider municipality
Everything we hold between the old quarter and the western municipal line, on apartments for sale in Estepona and houses for sale in Estepona.
What the beach beside the property for sale in Alcazaba Beach is like
The thing the whole address pays for, described rather than photographed.
The sand, and how wide it is
A long stretch of grey-gold sand, wide at the top of the tide and wider at the bottom, with the water shelving gently enough that children can stand in it a long way out. The beach here shelves gently and holds its width through the summer, which is why families come back to the same stretch year after year rather than trying the next one.
Where the promenade runs and where it stops
Estepona's planted promenade runs east out of the town and gives way, somewhere along this stretch, to sand, steps and the gardens of the complexes. The promenade ends before this part of the shore does, so the walk into town is partly on paving and partly on the beach itself, and it is worth doing once in each direction before deciding anything.
The beach bars and the hotel beach club
Chiringuitos that open with the season and close when it ends, and the hotel's own beach club, which keeps part of the frontage in use when the rest of it has gone quiet. Parts of this shore are busy all season and parts of it never are, and which of the two lies outside a particular gate is a question of a hundred metres.
What the sea does in winter
Easterly weather pushes the water up the beach and takes sand off it, and the sand gets put back; a westerly leaves the shore flat and glassy for weeks at a time. A beach on this coast is narrower in February than in August, and anybody who has seen the beach in August alone has seen half the address.
And the walk east and west from the gate
Half an hour in each direction tells you what the position really is: where the paving runs out, which neighbouring building stands closest, where the bars are and what is open out of season. Half an hour of walking settles what no brochure on this coast will, and it is the one part of the work that cannot be done before you arrive. Our agents in Estepona know this frontage complex by complex, and the property alarm writes the morning something here reaches our books.