R5526946Townhouse in Cabopino130 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 595,000Houses for sale in Cabopino
15 properties for sale in Cabopino · € 495,000 to € 4,800,000 · median € 4,823/m²
R5526946Townhouse in Cabopino130 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 595,000
R5287207Detached Villa in Cabopino635 m², 5 bed, 5 bath€ 2,995,000
R5495998Townhouse in Cabopino196 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 799,000
R5469154Townhouse in Cabopino130 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 495,000
R5407798Detached Villa in Cabopino254 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 1,695,000
R5504212Townhouse in Cabopino110 m², 2 bed, 3 bath€ 605,000
R5365018Townhouse in Cabopino127 m², 5 bed, 3 bath€ 539,000
R5179843Semi-Detached House in Cabopino310 m², 5 bed, 3 bath€ 1,495,000
R4913140Detached Villa in Cabopino530 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 3,500,000
R5372650Townhouse in Cabopino122 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 550,000
R5317318Semi-Detached House in Cabopino111 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 499,000
R4987282Semi-Detached House in Cabopino171 m², 3 bed, 4 bath€ 1,650,000
R5234515Detached Villa in Cabopino670 m², 5 bed, 5 bath€ 4,275,000
R5407996Detached Villa in Cabopino245 m², 3 bed, 4 bath€ 1,775,000
R3834277Detached Villa in Cabopino700 m², 8 bed, 10 bath€ 4,750,000Why the rate on the houses for sale in Cabopino barely moves
We hold 15 houses for sale in Cabopino, from € 495,000 to € 4,800,000, with the middle of the list at € 1,500,000, an average interior of 296 square metres, an average terrace of 96 square metres and a median of € 4,823 per square metre. What is remarkable is not any one of those figures but how little the rate per square metre moves across the page: from the cheapest metre here to the dearest is well under two and a half times.
On most house lists that spread is four or five times and on some it is ten. Where the rate barely varies, the buyer is paying for size rather than for an address, and that is unusual enough on this coast to be the first thing worth knowing about the district.
Three reasons, and together they make this the most readable house page we publish.
The district is tiny and uniform in position
Cabopino is a strip a few hundred metres wide between the protected dunes, the harbour and the golf course above. There is no good end and no bad end, because there is barely enough of the district to have ends. Every house here is within a few minutes of the same three things, so there is no positional premium for the market to price.
Nothing can be added to it
The dunes to the east are a protected natural monument and cannot be built on, the harbour is the harbour and the course is the course. Fixed supply and uniform position pull a market towards a single rate, and the asking prices then do nothing but report how much house is on offer.
What that means when you compare
Floor area is the honest axis here. Sort by size and the prices come out almost in order, which happens on hardly any list of houses anywhere on this coast. It also means a house here is unlikely to be a bargain or a mistake, because the market has already done the arithmetic. The coast-wide bands are detached villas and townhouses.
The houses for sale in Cabopino come in three kinds in equal measure
Villas, townhouses and semi-detached homes divide this page almost evenly, with the villa and the townhouse exactly level.
The townhouses
Two, three and five bedroom terraced homes with interiors between a hundred and ten and a hundred and thirty square metres and terraces that in several cases exceed a hundred. A terraced house with a terrace larger than its ground floor is not an afterthought, and minutes from a marina and a beach it is the entry to the district rather than its remainder.
The semi-detached homes
A smaller group and the least expensive way in: three bedrooms, a little over a hundred square metres, a terrace of forty-five. A house of this size minutes from a harbour has very few equivalents on this coast, which is what the semi-detached stock here is for — a buyer who wants a house rather than a flat in this position.
And the villas
Where the top of the page is. Five of the six run well past four hundred square metres inside, and the largest is a house of seven hundred square metres with eight bedrooms and ten bathrooms on a plot of over two thousand. That one competes with the whole coast rather than with its neighbours. The top band is on pure luxury.
How big the houses for sale in Cabopino are
The bedroom spread on this page is wider than the price spread, which is the clearest sign that floor area rather than address is what moves money here.
Three bedrooms leads, five follows
A third of this page has three bedrooms and nearly as many have five, with a group at four, a pair at two and one house running to eight. The bedroom count maps almost exactly onto the kind of house: two and three in the attached homes, four and five in the villas, eight in the one that belongs to a different market altogether.
The bathrooms tell you the same story twice
From two to ten across the page. The house with ten bathrooms also has eight bedrooms and seven hundred square metres of interior, and it is worth noting that a house of that specification in this district is rarer than the same house would be in Nueva Andalucía or Guadalmina Baja — there is simply not room for many of them.
And the plots are small by villa standards
Plot size is recorded on about two thirds of the page and the median runs to a few hundred square metres rather than a few thousand. Dunes on one side and a course above leave no width for generous land, so the outdoor space on these houses sits on the building rather than around it. If a large garden is the point, the shelf a few minutes west has far more of it and prices it lower.
What the fittings add
Air conditioning on most of the page, a fireplace on only a few, and fibre on a quarter. Fireplaces are the tell: a district with few of them was built for the warm half of the year, and the harbour with its winter trade is what is slowly changing that.
What the houses for sale in Cabopino are next to
Three things within walking distance of each other, which is the district's whole reason for existing.
The only marina between Marbella and Fuengirola
Three fifths of this page records a position close to the port and more than half close to the marina. It is a working harbour rather than a showpiece — fishing boats, a chandlery, a yard, a handful of restaurants on the quay. A quay with a winter trade keeps a district open when the coast around it closes in October, and that is worth considerably more than it sounds.
The protected dunes
A couple of kilometres of pine-grown dune run east from the harbour, between the houses and the water, carrying the status of a declared natural monument. Ground that cannot be built on is the most dependable neighbour a house on this coast can have, and it is why the beach beside the district stays the broadest and emptiest in the municipality in August.
And the golf immediately above
Two thirds of this page records a position close to golf and a couple sit on the course boundary itself, with the fairways on the rising ground inland of the coast road. Golf, marina and beach inside one short walk is a combination that exists in very few places. Every fairway address we hold is gathered on golf property.
The terraces on the houses for sale in Cabopino are half the house
Average terrace area here runs to roughly half the average interior, which for a house market is exceptional.
Why so much outdoor space
Because the plots are small and the climate is good. On a four-hundred-metre parcel the terrace does what a garden does on a two-thousand-metre one, and the houses here were drawn on that assumption: roof terraces above the bedrooms, shaded porches off the living room, solariums where another district would put lawn.
What it does to the figures
It makes every house here look dearer by the rate than it is, because no rate per square metre counts a metre of terrace. Where terrace area averages half the interior, the rate leaves out a third of the house. Add the two figures together before setting a house here beside one in a district where the outdoor space is a lawn.
And what a terrace of that size is made of
Almost always a roof. On a house of this kind the terrace is the top of the storey below it, built as a flat slab with a waterproof layer under the tiles and a parapet around the edge. A terrace on a house of this kind is a roof with furniture on it, which is why the junction between it and the room underneath is the part of the building that decides how the rest ages.
Most of the houses for sale in Cabopino are not behind a gate
Only a third of this page records a gated complex and a single property records round-the-clock security. The house market here is the open half of a district whose flats are almost all behind a barrier.
What an open street means here
Public roads, no barrier, no gatehouse, and security handled plot by plot — alarms on half the page, entry phones, electric blinds and perimeter walls as standard. On an open street nobody votes on what the frontage looks like, which is the freedom that comes with it and the reason the streets here are less uniform than the schemes.
Why the houses and the flats differ
Because the flats were built as schemes and the houses mostly were not. A gated development of apartments is a single project with a single budget; a street of houses is a street. In the same postcode those are two different models of living, and the choice between them here is unusually stark. The flats are on apartments in Cabopino.
And the pools follow the same split
Private pools slightly outnumber communal ones here, close to an even division and rare for a house market: the townhouses share, the villas do not. In this district a house does not automatically come with its own water, which follows from the plot sizes rather than from anybody's preference — a shared pool is what a row of houses on small parcels builds instead.
What the houses for sale in Cabopino are in and what they need
Three things the condition data says.
Two thirds describe themselves as excellent
And renovation or restoration hardly ever appears as required, which for houses of this vintage is unusual. At this price level in a district this small, houses get maintained rather than left to slide, because an owner who stops spending sells instead.
Which means there is no project here
No tired house on a good plot waiting to be rebuilt, and therefore no way to buy in below the market and work upward. What a house costs here is what a finished house costs, with no discount for the effort somebody was willing to put in — and correspondingly few surprises on the way.
And none of it is new
Every house on this page is a resale, because the strip was built out and nothing can be added. If a new house is the requirement, this district cannot supply it and the coast-wide list is new developments.
The houses for sale in Cabopino against the districts on either side
The district is small enough that the useful comparisons all lie outside it, and they lie in three different directions.
West along the shelf
A few minutes west the land widens into houses in Elviria, with plots several times the size, a deep renovation pipeline and a lower rate per square metre. The shelf to the west sells land and this strip sells position; between the two sits Las Chapas in the same pine woods.
Against the flats in the same few hundred metres
The apartment market here is larger than this one and occupies the identical ground, with a share of genuine golf outlooks that the houses cannot match. A flat in this strip buys the same three-way position without the garden, and for considerably less. Everything in the district together is property for sale in Cabopino, and the municipal house list is houses in Marbella.
East over the dunes, a different market altogether
Past the protected sand the coast becomes Mijas and then Fuengirola: denser, taller, cheaper by the metre, and built right up to the beach road with no open ground behind it. The municipal line here separates two ways of building a coast, not two price levels, and it is why a house on this side reads as the last of Marbella rather than the first of the next town along.
And where the houses for sale in Cabopino lead next
A handful of houses in a strip that cannot grow makes for a list that stands still for weeks and then moves in a morning, which is what the property alarm is for. Our agents in Estepona are on this shelf most weeks of the year. The letting side is on rental services, and the villa band on its own is detached villas in Cabopino.
Questions about houses for sale in Cabopino
Why does the rate per square metre on the houses for sale in Cabopino barely vary?
Because the district is tiny and uniform. The houses for sale in Cabopino stand on a strip a few hundred metres wide between protected dunes, a harbour and a golf course, so there is no good end and no bad end — every house is within a few minutes of the same three things and there is no positional premium to price. Supply is fixed too, since the dunes cannot be built on. From the cheapest metre to the dearest is well under two and a half times, where most house lists spread four or five. Sort by size: on this page the prices line up with it. See detached villas.
What kinds of house are the houses for sale in Cabopino?
Three, in near-equal measure, with villas and townhouses exactly level and a smaller group of semi-detached homes. The townhouses are not an afterthought — interiors of a hundred and ten to a hundred and thirty square metres with terraces that in several cases exceed a hundred — and the entry point here is a semi-detached home of a little over a hundred square metres. The villas hold the top: five of the six run past four hundred square metres, and the largest has eight bedrooms and ten bathrooms. See townhouses.
What is the marina actually like?
A working harbour rather than a showpiece: fishing boats, a chandlery, a yard and a handful of restaurants on the quay. Three fifths of the houses for sale in Cabopino record a position close to the port and more than half close to the marina, and because boats need attention in January as much as July it gives the district a winter — which matters in a part of the coast that otherwise shutters in October. Add the protected dunes to the east and the golf immediately above. See property for sale in Cabopino.
Why are the terraces on the houses for sale in Cabopino so large?
Because the plots are small and the climate is good: where a house has four hundred square metres of land rather than two thousand, the terrace does the work a garden would do elsewhere. The average terrace here runs to roughly half the average interior, which for a house market is exceptional — and it makes every house look dearer by the rate than it is, since no rate counts a metre of terrace. The terraces themselves are built as flat slabs over the storey below, with a waterproof layer under the tiles and a parapet around the edge — on a house of this kind the terrace is a roof with furniture on it, which is why the junction with the room underneath is the part of the building that decides how the rest ages. See apartments in Cabopino.
Is the district gated?
The houses for sale in Cabopino mostly are not — only about a third of this page records a gated complex and a single property records round-the-clock security, which is the reverse of the apartment market in the same postcode. The flats were built as schemes; the houses mostly sit on public streets with security handled plot by plot. Private pools slightly outnumber communal ones, close to an even split and rare for a house market, so filter for a private pool rather than assuming. The municipal house list is houses in Marbella.
