Property for sale in La Resina Golf

We hold 12 properties for sale in La Resina Golf, from € 449,000 to € 2,500,000, with the middle of the list at € 587,000 and a median of € 4,500 per square metre.

Those homes reach this page by hand rather than by filter: the data we draw from files them under Selwo or plain Estepona and carries no field for the name of a golf club, so somebody reads each listing and decides. The spread here is unusually broad for one address — flats, penthouses, semi-detached houses, villas on the fairway and building plots, all within reach of a single clubhouse. What follows explains what sort of place this is, when it was built and who tends to live here.

A golf club with a scattering of gated communities grown up around it, rather than a single development.

The club came first

La Resina Golf and Country Club sits in a valley in the hills behind the eastern beaches of the municipality, and the housing arrived around it in pockets over a couple of decades. That history is why the area has no single style and no single entrance: what there is instead is a series of separate communities, each with its own gate, pool and quota, strung along the roads that lead up to the clubhouse.

Nine holes, and that is the point

The layout is a nine-hole one rather than a championship eighteen, with tennis, padel and a restaurant beside it. A short course is playable after work and before dinner, the green fees are a different order of money, and the clubhouse ends up acting as the local bar for people who live on the hill. Anybody who wants a tournament course has several within a quarter of an hour.

Every type of home, in separate pockets

Flats, penthouses, townhouses and detached villas all exist here, which is unusual for one address and useful for a buyer who has not yet settled on a type. Within walking distance of one clubhouse you can look at a two-bedroom flat with a shared pool and a villa on its own ground. The row-house end of that range sits at townhouses.

Two directions at once, which is what a first-band hillside gives you and a flat site cannot.

Sea on one side, mountain on the other

From most of this ground the Mediterranean fills the view south, with Gibraltar on the horizon on a clear winter day, while the sierra closes the picture to the north. A terrace up here has water in front of it and rock behind it, and the homes with windows on both sides get the whole of that rather than half.

The valley floor and the fairways in it

The course lies along the bottom of the valley with the housing stepped up its sides, so a good share of the homes look down onto mown grass rather than across it. Looking down on a fairway is a different picture from looking along one — the whole hole is in the frame, the players are small, and nothing that happens on it reaches the terrace.

And what the upper streets gain and lose

Higher up, the view lengthens until the coast from Estepona to Marbella is in one sweep. The cost is the road: the best outlooks here sit at the end of the longest and steepest approaches, which a couple who go out twice a week experience quite differently from a household doing a school run twice a day in winter rain.

Young, by the standards of golf on this coast. The course and everything around it belong to the last thirty years rather than to the first wave of Costa del Sol golf, and the newest of it is still arriving.

A hillside built in two decades

There was almost nothing up here before the club, and what came after it came quickly: access roads cut into the slope, then a pocket of flats, then another, then villas on the higher ground. Nothing on this hillside is old enough to be historic and nothing is old enough to be tired by design — the age question here is about maintenance rather than about architecture.

What the boom-year communities look like

Three and four storeys in render and roof tile, arranged round a pool, with planting that has had twenty years to become shade. A garden that screens a terrace is the one thing a new scheme cannot sell at any price, and it is why the older pockets up here keep their buyers even against something finished this year across the road.

And the current schemes on the upper slope

Flat roofs, tall windows, render over stone, and the living rooms raised above the parking because the slope allows nothing else. Current building here goes onto the steeper ground, because the gentle ground was taken first, which is why the newest homes have the longest views and the narrowest approach roads.

Workable, on a season shaped by the golf and the school rather than by the beach.

Who actually rents up here

Golfers in spring and autumn, families in high summer, and a steady trickle of people visiting the school. The shoulder seasons work here, where a purely beach-driven community empties in November — rates are lower than on the front line and the occupied weeks are more numerous, which suits an owner after a return rather than a trophy.

The school term is the steadier half

A school on the hill gives this address a long-let market the shoreline has no equivalent of: families arrive for a school year rather than a fortnight, want an unfurnished home for ten months and are gone in June. It is less money per week and a great deal less work, and it is the reason there are tenants up here in January.

And each gate decides for itself

The communities on this hill went up at different times and have gone their own ways since, so the practice behind one gate is not the practice behind the next. The name of the community matters more here than the name of the hillside. Our own part in a letting is described at rental services.

The same hillside, the beaches below it and the courses either side.

Selwo, on the same road

The district alongside is much the bigger of the two names on this hill, and the two are used almost interchangeably by people who live here. If the list on this page is narrower than you want, that is the next place to look: apartment communities at the gentler end of the Estepona market, on their own page at Selwo.

The beaches and the golf below

Down the hill lie the long sand beaches east of Estepona and a further string of courses, the nearest of them on flat ground west of the town. The shore is where this hillside swims rather than where it lives. Two of the nearer addresses are Bahía del Velerín and Estepona Golf.

And the rest of the municipality

Everything we hold sorted by what it is rather than where it is begins at apartments and houses, with luxury property at the top of the range and the land on this hillside at plots in La Resina Golf. New listings up here arrive one at a time rather than in releases, which is why the property alarm works better than checking, and our estate agents in Estepona know the gates by name.