Property for sale in Casasola

We hold 9 properties for sale in Casasola, from € 620,000 to € 9,900,000, with the middle of the list at € 1,200,000 and a median of € 6,768 per square metre.

None of those carries the name in the data we draw from; each is on this page because somebody read the listing and assigned it here, and one further text match was deliberately left out because there the word is a furniture brand rather than a place. What follows sets out what the enclave is, where its roads run, how the houses on them were built and what else lies within a few minutes of the turning.

A small, private residential enclave on the shore beside Guadalmina, and privacy is the whole of its reputation.

An enclave rather than an urbanisation

This is not a scheme with a brochure but a pocket of established beachside housing: a short run of roads between the coast and the golf, with relatively few properties on them and a reputation among people who live on this coast for being quiet and unobserved. Addresses of that kind rarely advertise themselves, which is one reason a search for the name returns so little.

Villas on the sand side, apartments behind

Closest to the water sit detached houses on their own ground, some of them single-storey and some very large indeed. Behind them lie a small number of apartment communities with landscaped gardens, a pool and in one case padel courts, which offer the same position at a fraction of the figure. Occasionally a building plot comes up. Those three markets are at detached villas, apartments and residential plots.

And it sits on a municipal boundary

The enclave lies where Marbella meets Estepona, and the data we work from files homes here under both — some as Guadalmina Baja, some as plain Estepona. One run of roads sits in two municipalities, which is why the name behaves so oddly in a search: a house a hundred metres from its neighbour can be described as being in a different town altogether, and both descriptions are correct.

A range that runs from reasonable to the very top of this coast.

From a two-bedroom flat to a seaside estate

The apartment communities behind the front row sell at figures that would surprise anybody who only knows the enclave by reputation, while the largest houses on the shore are among the most expensive private residences in the municipality. Both are Casasola. An average across the two ends of this enclave means nothing at all.

What actually moves a figure

Distance to the water, first: on this ground the front row and the second row are different markets. Then the plot, because on a beachside enclave land is the scarce commodity and it cannot be added. Then privacy — how overlooked the house is, how it is approached, what stands beside it. Then the building, which comes fourth and is the only one of the four that money can change later.

And what a plot here is worth

A great deal, because there are almost none. An undeveloped parcel in a finished beachside enclave comes with the position, the services already at the boundary and neighbours who are not going to move. Bare ground this close to the sand is the rarest thing on this coast, and when a parcel here does change hands it usually goes to somebody who already lives within a few streets of it.

Four things about the building here, and all four follow from the size of the plots.

Spread sideways rather than stacked

The older houses on the shore side are long and low, often on a single floor, arranged around courtyards and loggias with the rooms strung out along the garden instead of piled above one another. A house here occupies its plot rather than standing on it, which is the opposite of how the same money would be built today on a smaller parcel.

Walls first, then sixty years of planting

Each plot was enclosed when it was sold, and the hedges, pines, palms and bougainvillea behind those walls have had decades to close the gaps. The planting is what makes the privacy, not the wall, and it is also why so few of these houses record a sea view despite standing a minute from the water.

The apartment communities behind

Inland of the front row sit a handful of low gated schemes from the eighties and nineties: three or four storeys, long balconies, communal gardens, a pool and in one case padel courts, built as holiday housing rather than as town flats. They are the one part of the enclave that was drawn to a plan rather than plot by plot.

And what the last cycle has rebuilt

Since the nineties a number of the original villas have come down and been replaced with flat-roofed houses in glass, stone and white render, set lower on the plot and turned toward the sea. Two generations of beachside villa stand side by side on these roads, and the newer ones are the reason the top of this market reads as it does.

Possible, and frequently discouraged by the place itself.

An enclave that sells on privacy guards it

Where the whole value of an address rests on how few people come and go, the households tend to settle among themselves that a stream of weekly arrivals is not what the roads were built for. Privacy and holiday letting pull against each other here, and in this enclave privacy has generally won.

Who actually rents here

Families and groups taking a whole house for a week or more, at rates set by the position and the privacy rather than by the bedroom count. The calendar is thinner than a resort apartment's and the weeks are worth considerably more. The side of that we handle is set out under rental services.

And it needs managing rather than minding

A property at this level is let to people with expectations: professional cleaning, a key service, maintenance on call and somebody answering the telephone. A large beachside house is a small operation whether or not anybody is paying to stay in it, and that is as true in February as it is in July.

Golf inland, town to the east.

Guadalmina, immediately behind

The neighbouring address holds the course, the commercial centre and a far larger choice of homes at every level, and it is where most of the list on this page comes from. Its pages are Guadalmina Baja and houses in Guadalmina Baja.

The coast east and west

East the beaches run on towards San Pedro and Puerto Banús; west they cross into Estepona and the New Golden Mile. Two of those addresses are San Pedro de Alcántara and Estepona East.

And everything else by type

Sorted by what it is rather than where it is, our books begin at houses, with the top of the market at luxury property and the whole front line at beachfront property.