Property for sale in Selwo

113 properties for sale in Selwo · € 180,000 to € 4,600,000 · median € 4,365/m²

Selwo is the stretch of Estepona that most buyers reach by accident and then come back to. It sits in the western half of the municipality, on the slopes above the coast road, named after the Selwo Aventura wildlife park at its foot. The sea is a few minutes down the hill, Estepona town a few minutes east, and the Casares boundary begins just beyond. What that position buys you is the thing the first line cannot: height, and with it a view over the water that no ground-floor terrace on the beach can match.

What property for sale in Selwo actually is

Apartments, mostly. The slope was built out from the 2000s onwards in gated urbanisations — three or four storeys, a communal pool, maintained gardens, underground parking — and that is what the great majority of our Selwo listings are. Villas exist and plots exist, but they are the minority, and anyone searching here should expect to be choosing between apartment schemes rather than between individual houses.

Why the apartments here are larger than the coastal ones

Land on the hillside cost less than land on the front line when these schemes were drawn, and the plans show it: wider terraces, more storage, a second bathroom as standard rather than as an upgrade. If you have been looking at the beach strip and finding that your budget buys two bedrooms, the same money inland and uphill generally buys three.

What you give up

You need a car. That is the honest trade. There is no walking to a restaurant from most of Selwo, no strolling to the beach with a towel, no bakery around the corner. For a holiday home that is often irrelevant; for a permanent move it is the single question to be sure about before you buy.

Where Selwo sits on price

Counted from our own listings every morning: apartments in Selwo run at a median of 4,579 € per square metre across 55 comparable listings, against 4,775 € for the municipality as a whole. Houses sit at 3,587 € against 4,454 €. Both below the Estepona average, and that gap is the reason people end up here.

Within Selwo the floor moves the number more than most buyers expect: a middle floor apartment runs at 4,640 €, a ground floor one at 4,108 €. On a hillside that is not a quirk of taste — it is the view. A ground floor flat in a terraced scheme often looks at the block in front; one floor up, it looks over it.

Who buys in Selwo

Three groups, and they want different things from the same streets. Northern European buyers looking for a second home with a view and a pool, who use it six weeks a year and let it the rest. Families moving permanently, usually from the coast strip, who have worked out what three bedrooms cost down there. And investors, because the combination of a lower entry price and a letting season that runs from April to October makes the arithmetic work more often than it does on the front line.

Getting around

The A-7 runs along the foot of the hill, which puts Estepona town at roughly ten minutes, Puerto Banús at about twenty-five and Marbella at thirty-five. The AP-7 toll road shortens the longer runs. Málaga airport is around an hour; Gibraltar is closer, about forty minutes, and worth knowing about for winter flights when the Málaga schedule thins out.

What to check before you buy here

Three things, in this order. The view, and what may be built in front of it — on a slope the value is the outlook, and the outlook is protected by the planning file, not by goodwill. The community fee and the minutes of the last two general meetings, because hillside schemes carry retaining walls, access roads and pumps that flat ones do not, and those are the items that produce a special levy. And the access road itself: ask who maintains it, the community or the town hall, and get the answer in writing.

Where to go from here

By type we list apartments in Estepona, houses and villas and plots — the full municipality, with Selwo among them. The neighbouring districts on the same slope and the same price level are Cancelada and Estepona Golf. And if nothing here fits today, our property alarm mails you when it does.

What is for sale in Selwo right now

Our listings for Selwo currently hold 113 properties: 86 apartments, 18 houses and 9 plots. The typical home here is built over 138 m² with 1 to 5 bedrooms.

Type	For sale	Price from	Price to	Typical size
Apartment	86	€ 280,000	€ 2,150,000	124 m²
House	18	€ 649,000	€ 4,600,000	229 m²
Plot	9	€ 180,000	€ 960,000	575 m²

By property type that breaks down into 34 middle floor apartments, 14 ground floor apartments, 11 detached villas, 10 penthouses, 8 residential plots, 5 penthouse duplexes, 5 townhouses and 2 top floor apartments.

What property costs in Selwo

The median asking price in Selwo is € 613,000, the range runs from € 180,000 to € 4,600,000. Per square metre that is € 4,365 — 10 % below the median for the wider Estepona area.

By budget: 6 under € 300,000, 31 between € 300,000 and € 500,000, 34 between € 500,000 and € 750,000, 25 between € 750,000 and € 1,000,000, 11 between € 1,000,000 and € 2,000,000 and 6 over € 2,000,000.

Condition and what comes with the property

How the 113 properties in Selwo are described: 51 new construction, 46 in excellent condition, 17 in good condition, 4 recently renovated, 4 recently refurbished and 3 in fair condition.

99 of 113 have a pool, 79 of 113 have a garden, 76 of 113 have parking and 1 of 113 have a lift. Where there is land, the median plot measures 378 m².

Pools are 94 communal, 16 children`s pool, 10 indoor, 8 private and 7 heated.

Gardens are 66 communal, 29 landscaped, 23 private and 2 easy maintenance.

Parking comes as 62 underground, 41 private, 24 garage, 16 covered and 8 more than one.

On security: 90 gated complex, 56 24 hour security, 25 entry phone, 17 alarm system and 14 electric blinds.

For heating and cooling: 69 air conditioning, 32 hot A/C, 27 cold A/C, 27 U/F heating and 8 pre installed A/C.

Kitchens are 75 fully fitted, 3 partially fitted and 2 kitchen-lounge.

How the agents file them: 60 luxury, 32 resale, 30 investment, 22 holiday homes, 18 golf and 14 contemporary.

What the location is like in Selwo

Every listing records how it sits in its surroundings. Across the 113 properties in Selwo that reads: 50 in a gated urbanisation, 43 close to schools, 39 close to the sea, 15 close to woodland, 7 suburban and 7 close to golf. The counts overlap — one property can be both close to the sea and close to golf.

Views and orientation

What you look at from Selwo: 79 sea views, 59 garden views, 38 mountain views, 26 panoramic views, 26 pool views, 18 country views and 14 golf views.

Which way they face — the figure that decides how much winter sun a terrace gets: 42 facing south, 19 facing south west, 14 facing west, 13 facing south east and 7 facing east.

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