NE-PLG-4B3B-House16Townhouse in Selwo146 m², 4 bed, 3 bath€ 949,000Houses for sale in La Resina Golf
21 properties for sale in La Resina Golf · € 649,000 to € 4,600,000 · median € 5,495/m²
NE-PLG-4B3B-House16Townhouse in Selwo146 m², 4 bed, 3 bath€ 949,000
NE-PLG-3B2B-House2Townhouse in Selwo123 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 785,000
NE-PLG-4B3B-House8Townhouse in Selwo146 m², 4 bed, 3 bath€ 855,000
NE-SEV-4B4B-14Detached Villa in Selwo522 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 2,000,000
NE-SEV-4B4B-7Detached Villa in Selwo635 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 2,500,000
NE-VASV-4B4B-01Detached Villa in Selwo484 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 2,190,000
NE-VESV-4B4B-01Detached Villa in Selwo554 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 3,995,000
NE-VGS-4B3B-01Detached Villa in Selwo366 m², 4 bed, 3 bath€ 2,595,000
NE-OV-3B3B-08Detached Villa in Selwo274 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 3,490,000
NE-OV-4B4B-10Detached Villa in Selwo450 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 4,600,000
NE-OV-3B3B-06Detached Villa in Selwo260 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 3,250,000
R5432215Semi-Detached House in Selwo158 m², 4 bed, 3 bath€ 895,000
R5434048Detached Villa in La Resina Golf200 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 1,099,000
R5342341Detached Villa in Selwo293 m², 4 bed, 3 bath€ 1,550,000
R5468410Townhouse in Selwo198 m², 4 bed, 3 bath€ 699,000
R5495329Detached Villa in La Resina Golf344 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 1,200,000
R5486047Detached Villa in La Resina Golf383 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 2,450,000
R4771375Detached Villa in Selwo218 m², 5 bed, 3 bath€ 725,000
R5104306Detached Villa in Selwo697 m², 5 bed, 8 bath€ 2,500,000
R5382073Detached Villa in Selwo222 m², 5 bed, 4 bath€ 649,000
R5494903Detached Villa in La Resina Golf378 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 1,375,000What the houses for sale in La Resina Golf are
The range runs from € 649,000 to € 4,600,000, with the middle of the list at € 1,600,000, an average built area of 336 square metres and an average plot of 878 square metres. Detached villas on their own terraced ground make up most of it, with rows of newer houses beneath them and the occasional semi-detached pair between the two.
Because the data we draw from files these homes under the surrounding districts rather than under the name of the golf club, the houses around the fairways are assigned to this page by hand and the list reaches along the same hillside into the district alongside. The tiles say which is which. What follows sets out what a house up here actually gives you, what the ground under it is like, and where the ceiling of the address sits.
Three distinct products with very little standing between them.
Detached villas on terraced ground
The characteristic house here stands on its own plot with a private pool, a garden on two or three levels and a garage cut into the slope. Plots are generous by coastal standards without being estates: enough for a pool, a lawn and planting that screens the neighbours, and small enough that one gardener can keep the whole of it. The coast-wide list is at detached villas.
New townhouses in a single scheme
Rows of three- and four-bedroom houses in current construction sit at the lower end of this page, with the glazing and the insulation of a building finished this decade and a shared pool for the row. The row house is how a family buys a house rather than a flat up here without taking on a renovation. The segment is at townhouses.
And new villas that set the ceiling
At the top of the list stand newly built detached houses several times the figure of the entry villa. They are what the address can do rather than what it usually does, and their presence matters to an ordinary buyer for one reason: a hillside that supports houses at that level is a hillside whose middle holds its value. The schemes we handle are gathered at new developments.
What the plots on this hillside are like
Terraced rather than flat, which on this slope decides more about a house than the house does.
Cut into levels
A plot measured in square metres says nothing about how much of it is level. Up here the ground arrives in steps: a parking level, a house level, a pool terrace and often a strip of planting below that. What counts on a hillside is the number of flat levels rather than the area on the deeds, and the distance between the kitchen and the water is measured in steps rather than in metres.
Held up by walls
Every terraced garden on this slope stands on structures that keep the hill where it is, and they are the largest and least visible thing in it. In a well-kept garden the retaining walls have been rendered, painted and planted until nobody sees them — which is the whole point of them, and the reason they are the last thing anybody photographs from the pool.
And the water finds the lowest route
Rain on this coast arrives in a few violent days rather than steadily, and on a slope it goes where gravity sends it. Every hillside garden here is drained as well as planted, with channels along the terraces and an outlet somewhere below, and the gardens that cope with a wet November are the ones where that work was done properly the first time.
Where the houses for sale in La Resina Golf sit
In the hills behind the eastern beaches of the municipality, in the pockets of housing strung around one clubhouse.
Elevation, with the sea in sight
The ground climbs from the coast road in bands, and these houses stand in the first of them: high enough for the water to be visible from a first floor, low enough that the beach is a few minutes down. What the elevation really buys is quiet, because the sound of the coast road never reaches this height, and it is the first thing anybody remarks on after driving up from the shore.
Golf on the doorstep, bigger courses nearby
The club is a nine-hole layout with tennis, padel and a restaurant, which suits a player who fits a round into an evening rather than one who collects championship venues. Nine holes at the end of the street is a different relationship with the game from a membership and a drive, and the larger courses lie within a quarter of an hour in three directions. The golf-side homes of the neighbouring valley are at golf residences in Valle Romano.
A school, and what it does to a street
The international school beside the course gives this hillside something most golf addresses here lack: children on the road in October and neighbours at home in February. For a family buying a house rather than a holiday flat that is the deciding feature, and it is why the houses up here sell to residents rather than to visitors.
Two towns, both a short drive
Estepona in one direction, San Pedro de Alcántara and the marina in the other, each around a quarter of an hour, with the motorway close at hand. Nothing here needs a long journey and nothing here is walkable except the clubhouse, which is an honest description of most hillside addresses on this coast. The flats on the same slope are at apartments in La Resina Golf.
What moves the price of houses for sale in La Resina Golf
Four things, and the first is the one buyers underrate.
Whether the house is detached in fact as well as in name
On terraced ground two houses can both be detached and have completely different privacy, because what matters on a slope is whether anybody looks down into the pool. The house above yours sees your water and you see its terrace, and no planting fixes that from one side only. It is fixed on the day the streets were cut.
Condition, which here means the nineteen-nineties
A good share of the second-hand villas date from the building of this hillside, and that generation of house wants glazing, bathrooms, pool plant and often a roof. A renovated villa asks a premium and needs nothing; an original one asks less and needs the work at today's prices. The gap between the two is wider on houses than on flats, because every item is larger.
The outlook, and its direction
Sea, fairway, mountain, or the house opposite. South and west terraces take the afternoon and the evening; a north-facing garden on a slope loses the sun early in winter and never quite warms the pool. Both are decided on the day you buy and neither can be bought back later.
And whether it is new
Current construction on this slope asks appreciably more per square metre than second-hand and delivers thicker walls, better glass and nothing to do. The hillside lets you compare the two within a few hundred metres, which is the part that makes this address useful rather than merely cheaper than the ones east of it.
When the houses up here were built
Recently, by the standards of golf on this coast. There was almost nothing on this hillside before the club, and everything on it belongs to the last thirty years.
Villas of the nineteen-nineties came first
Detached houses on their own terraced plots, in render and curved roof tile, with arches, a pool terrace cut into the slope and a garage below the house. That generation took the gentler ground, because it was there to take, which is why the older villas up here have the shortest drives and the most level gardens.
The rows are the newer idea
Attached housing arrived once ground near the clubhouse had become too valuable for single plots: two floors with a solarium above, a pool shared along the row and a garden the width of the house. A row put a house on this hillside inside budgets a villa was never going to fit, and it is why the page has a lower end at all.
And the newest villas sit on the upper ground
Flat roofs, wide glass, pale render, and the living floor lifted over the garage where the gradient insists on it. Building here has moved onto the steeper ground, because the easy ground went first — which is why the newest houses have the longest views and the narrowest approaches.
The gardens and pools up here
Private rather than shared, which is the main difference between a house on this hillside and a flat on it.
A pool of your own, on its own terrace
Usually on the largest level platform the plot allows, with the house above it or beside it and a view over the parapet. A private pool on a slope is a room with a floor of water, and where it sits in relation to the afternoon sun was decided by the contour long before anybody chose the tiles.
Planting that has to be watered
Terraced gardens on this coast drink through a long dry summer, and on a slope that means a system with zones and a pump rather than a hose. A hillside garden is irrigated or it is brown by August, and the mature planting that makes these plots private is the planting that needs the most of it.
And the gate, where there is one
Some of the villas stand inside gated pockets with shared roads and lighting, and some stand on open streets with their own gate at the kerb. The two live quite differently for something that looks the same on a map: one has a barrier at the entrance to the whole pocket, the other has a doorbell on the pavement.
Who the houses for sale in La Resina Golf suit
Three buyers, and the last one is the reason this page exists at all.
The family that wants a garden and a school run
Private ground, a pool, three or four bedrooms and a school beside the course, at figures the beachside villa market on this coast does not reach. For a household moving here rather than visiting, that combination is the whole argument, and it is why the houses up here change hands to residents.
The buyer who intends to renovate
An original villa of the nineteen-nineties on a good plot is the shortest route to a house that suits you exactly, and the bones of that generation of house are better than its finishes: solid structure, generous rooms, thick walls, and a plan that wants opening up rather than rebuilding. There are trades in Estepona who do nothing else.
And the buyer who would rather build
A few serviced parcels on this hillside still reach the market, which on most of this coast they no longer do. Against the cost of buying a tired villa and reworking it, building is often the better arithmetic — it is simply slower. The land is at plots in La Resina Golf.
The roads up to these houses
Part of the address, and the part a map flattens out of existence.
Steep, narrow and winding
The streets were cut to follow the contour rather than to run straight, so they switch back on themselves and pass between retaining walls with room for one car in places. A distance on this hillside is a time rather than a number of metres, and two houses that look like neighbours on paper can be a few minutes apart on wheels.
What the gradient does in winter rain
Water runs down the carriageway, leaves collect at the bends and the surface shines. A hillside road in November drives differently from the same road in May, and a household doing a school run twice a day experiences it rather differently from a couple who go out twice a week.
And where the gradient flattens out
The lower pockets sit on the gentler ground near the valley floor and the clubhouse, with level approaches and shorter drives. The flattest streets up here are the oldest ones, because the first builders had the choice, and that is worth knowing when a view from the top is being weighed against the road to it.
Houses for sale in La Resina Golf — where to go next
What else stands on this hill, and what lies either side of it.
The same slope, next door
Next door, on the same road, lies the larger of the two districts, with more of everything on it and the same view from it. The boundary between the two names is invisible on the ground, so both belong on the same afternoon: Selwo.
Flats and land on the same hillside
Apartment communities stand below and between the houses, and a handful of building parcels still come up. One address answering all three questions is rare on this coast. Those are apartments in La Resina Golf and plots in La Resina Golf, and the address itself is described at La Resina Golf.
And the golf country either side
West of the town the golf sits on flat ground around an older course at Estepona Golf; east of here the valleys behind Puerto Banús begin. Villas on this hillside appear singly and without notice, so the property alarm catches them sooner than looking does, and our estate agents in Estepona know the streets by their gradients.
Questions about houses for sale in La Resina Golf
What kinds of houses for sale in La Resina Golf are there?
The houses for sale in La Resina Golf come in three products with little standing between them: detached villas on their own terraced plots with private pools, rows of new three- and four-bedroom townhouses at the lower end, and a small number of newly built villas at the top of the range. The rows are how a family buys a house rather than a flat up here without taking on a renovation, and the new villas matter to an ordinary buyer because a hillside that supports houses at that level is a hillside whose middle holds its value. The coast-wide lists are detached villas and townhouses.
How big are the plots, and how much of them is flat?
Generous by coastal standards without being estates — enough for a pool, a lawn and planting that screens the neighbours, and small enough for one gardener to keep. On terraced ground the number on the deeds matters less than how the ground is divided: up here a plot arrives in steps, usually a parking level, a house level, a pool terrace and a strip of planting below, so the distance between the kitchen and the water is counted in steps rather than metres. The older of the houses for sale in La Resina Golf have the most level ground, because the first builders took the gentler slopes. The building land here is at plots in La Resina Golf.
What are the roads up to the houses for sale in La Resina Golf like?
Steep, narrow and winding, and that is part of the address rather than a detail of it. The streets were cut to follow the contour rather than to run straight, so they switch back on themselves and pass between retaining walls with room for one car in places — a distance on this hillside is a time rather than a number of metres, and two houses that look like neighbours on a map can be minutes apart on wheels. In November the water runs down the carriageway and the surface shines. The lower pockets near the clubhouse sit on the gentler ground with level approaches, and those are the oldest streets up here. The flats on the same slope are at apartments in La Resina Golf.
Is this a good address for a family rather than a holiday?
Yes, and that is unusual for a golf hillside on this coast. A trilingual international school stands beside the club, which means children on the road in October and neighbours at home in February, and realEstepona.com sees the houses here change hands to residents rather than to visitors. Private ground, a pool and three or four bedrooms come at figures the beachside villa market does not reach, with Estepona and San Pedro each roughly fifteen minutes off. The neighbouring district on the same slope is Selwo.
Are the houses for sale in La Resina Golf new or second-hand?
The houses for sale in La Resina Golf are mostly second-hand, with a minority in current construction, and the hillside is one of the few places on this coast where the two stand a few hundred metres apart. The older villas largely date from the building of this hillside in the nineteen-nineties and want glazing, bathrooms and often pool plant, though the bones of that generation are better than its finishes: solid structure, generous rooms and a plan that wants opening up rather than rebuilding. The new rows and villas bring thicker walls, better glass and nothing to do, at an appreciably higher figure per square metre, and they stand on the steeper upper ground because the easy ground went first. The schemes are at new developments.
