R5512843Middle Floor Apartment in Elviria121 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 359,000Apartments for sale in Elviria
102 properties for sale in Elviria · € 299,000 to € 2,200,000 · median € 5,534/m²
R5512843Middle Floor Apartment in Elviria121 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 359,000
R5164585Penthouse Duplex in Elviria120 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 1,070,000
R5541058Ground Floor Apartment in Elviria92 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 349,995
R5538853Penthouse in Elviria73 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 1,100,000
R5535859Penthouse in Elviria200 m², 5 bed, 4 bath€ 1,050,000
R5397736Middle Floor Apartment in Elviria155 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 449,000
R5363998Middle Floor Apartment in Elviria83 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 470,000
R5498554Ground Floor Apartment in Elviria87 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 459,950
R5532082Ground Floor Apartment in Elviria117 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 449,000
R5235802Middle Floor Apartment in Elviria128 m², 4 bed, 3 bath€ 799,000
R5407792Middle Floor Apartment in Elviria154 m², 2 bed, 3 bath€ 749,000
R5530429Top Floor Apartment in Elviria119 m², 2 bed, 1 bath€ 420,000
R5529394Penthouse in Hacienda Elviria137 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 465,000
R5432056Penthouse Duplex in Elviria161 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 1,250,000
R5496697Penthouse Duplex in Elviria136 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 529,000
R5526865Penthouse Duplex in Elviria225 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 1,395,000
R5524099Middle Floor Apartment in Elviria112 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 390,000
R5510047Middle Floor Apartment in Elviria105 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 550,000
R5523466Middle Floor Apartment in Elviria88 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 895,000
R5315203Middle Floor Apartment in Elviria132 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 647,000
R5524267Penthouse Duplex in Elviria215 m², 3 bed, 4 bath€ 1,575,000
R5362210Middle Floor Apartment in Elviria83 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 625,000
R5521090Ground Floor Apartment in Elviria90 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 340,000
R5366173Top Floor Apartment in Elviria98 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 675,000
R5520103Penthouse in Elviria123 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 480,000
R5520793Middle Floor Apartment in Elviria69 m², 1 bed, 1 bath€ 299,000
R5520784Ground Floor Apartment in Elviria103 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 399,000
R5499373Middle Floor Apartment in Elviria155 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 440,000
R5516035Middle Floor Apartment in Elviria82 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 395,000
R5478031Penthouse Duplex in Elviria169 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 1,649,000
R5430472Middle Floor Apartment in Elviria94 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 555,000
R5502865Ground Floor Apartment in Elviria149 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 595,000
R5491903Ground Floor Apartment in Elviria111 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 475,000
R5470591Middle Floor Apartment in Elviria141 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 750,000
R5482717Ground Floor Apartment in Elviria98 m², 2 bed, 1 bath€ 750,000
R5216506Penthouse in Elviria83 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 1,090,000
R5444197Middle Floor Apartment in Elviria106 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 399,000
R5413549Ground Floor Apartment in Elviria107 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 595,000
R4867849Ground Floor Apartment in Elviria75 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 890,000Why the apartments for sale in Elviria sit beside both halves of the coast
There are 102 apartments for sale in Elviria on our books, from € 299,000 to € 2,200,000, with the middle of the list at € 628,000, an average built area of 124 square metres, an average terrace of 47 square metres and a median of € 5,534 per square metre. The fact that makes this list different from every other large flat market on this coast is not in those figures: roughly two thirds of it records a position close to the sea, and roughly two thirds also records a position close to golf.
Those two groups overlap almost entirely, which is only possible in a district where the sand and the fairways are a few minutes apart. It is the whole argument for buying here, and it is worth understanding properly before you compare this page with a beach strip or with the golf country inland.
East Marbella is a wide shelf of land between the sea and the first ridge of hills. The beach runs along the bottom of it, two golf courses sit a short way up it, and the pine woods start above them. A district built across that shelf can be beside both, where a district on a narrow strip of coast can only ever be beside one.
What that does to the season
It doubles the useful part of the year. A beach address fills in July and August and empties in October; a golf address fills in spring and autumn and is quiet in high summer. A district with both runs from March to November, and that is the single most valuable attribute an apartment on this coast can have if it is ever going to earn anything. Rental services sets out what managing that involves.
What it does to resale
It widens the pool of people who will buy it from you. A flat that only works for a beach holiday is sold to beach buyers; a flat that works for both is sold to everybody, including the growing number of residents who are here all year and want neither extreme. In a soft market the breadth of the buyer pool matters more than any feature of the property.
And what it costs
Less than either of the pure positions, which is the part that surprises people. The median per square metre on this page sits comfortably below the beach-side districts of the same municipality and below the golf valley behind Puerto Banús. You are paying for a position that is good at two things instead of excellent at one, and on this coast that discount is real.
Almost all of the apartments for sale in Elviria are resale
Hardly anything here is new building, and for a district of this size that is unusual and informative: the shelf was developed over decades, the schemes on it are mature, and what trades here is the second and third generation of ownership rather than the first.
What a mature district gives you
Gardens that have grown in, trees that shade the parking, communities that have already argued about the roof and fixed it, and neighbours who know what the quota pays for. None of that exists in a scheme handed over last year, and all of it is worth money. It also means you can see exactly what you are buying rather than reading a specification and a computer rendering.
How the blocks were drawn, decade by decade
The oldest schemes on this shelf are long two-storey terraces reached by external stairs and set well back behind planting. The nineteen-eighties brought the stepped block that follows the slope, three or four floors with the top one set in, and the nineties added the gatehouse and the parking ramp. You can date a scheme in Elviria from its car park before you go inside: surface spaces under pines belong to the first generation, a ramp into the ground to the last.
The condition field, and where the value is
Most of this list describes itself as in excellent order and a solid minority as good; a smaller group has been recently renovated. The flats that have not been touched since the nineteen-nineties are where a buyer with appetite finds the margin, because a kitchen and two bathrooms are a known cost and a mature position is not available at any price in a new scheme.
And the new building nearby, for comparison
There is new construction on this coast, just very little of it in this district, and it is worth looking at both before deciding — a new flat in a young scheme and a resale in a grown-in one are genuinely different products at similar money. Our part-built stock sits together on new developments, and it is worth an hour of anybody time before they settle on a resale.
What the apartments for sale in Elviria are like
Three bedrooms as the commonest form
Three-bedroom flats are the largest single group here, narrowly ahead of two-bedroom ones, with a handful of four-bedroom properties above them and a few one-bedroom flats and studios below. That profile is a family profile, and it separates this district sharply from the port districts, where the two-bedroom holiday flat dominates. More than half the list also records a position close to schools, which is the same fact seen from another angle.
Middle floors, and the ground floors with gardens
Nearly half of these flats are middle floors, which are the cheapest route into any particular scheme. Roughly a quarter sit on the ground with a terrace or a private garden, and on this coast those usually ask a little more per square metre than the floor above, because the garden is not counted in the built area and therefore not in the rate at all. For a household with small children they are the only sensible choice. The coast-wide lists are middle floor apartments and ground floor apartments.
The penthouse duplexes, which are a local speciality
This district holds an unusually large group of penthouses and penthouse duplexes — well over a fifth of the page — and several of them carry roof terraces larger than their interiors. In a mature low-rise district with views in two directions that is exactly what you would expect the top of a building to be worth, and it is the segment where the published rate per square metre is least useful, since terrace area never enters it. The coast-wide list is penthouses.
Pools, gardens and lifts
Almost every listing records a communal pool and most a communal garden; a majority record a lift and underground parking, and a substantial group record a children's pool, which is another marker of who these schemes were built for. The lift share is high for this coast and worth noticing: it decides whether a top-floor flat can be let to guests who are not young, and whether you will still use it comfortably in twenty years.
Where the apartments for sale in Elviria stand, because the district is not one place
The beach side
Below the coast road the schemes are beachside and a number record a sea view. This is the part of the district that behaves like a beach strip: busy in August, quiet in January, best for letting by the week. The front line proper across the municipality is under beachfront in Marbella.
The golf side
Above the road, among the courses, the character changes completely: quieter, greener, more residents, longer stays, and a view over fairways rather than over sand. A majority of the apartments for sale in Elviria sit in this half of the district, and it is where the spring and autumn letting demand goes. The municipal list is golf property in Marbella.
And the pine hills above both
Higher still the ground rises into pine woods, cooler in summer and further from everything, with panoramic views down over the whole shelf to the sea. A number of listings here record mountain views for that reason. It is the quietest part of the district and the most car-dependent, and the walk to anything is not a walk.
Which of the three you should want
Decide it by how you will use the flat rather than by the photographs. For letting by the week, go low and close to the sand. For spring and autumn golf and a long season, go to the middle. For living here all year with a view, go up — and accept that everything then needs the car. The district page with every type together is property for sale in Elviria.
Elviria against its neighbours
East and west along the same shelf
Immediately east is Cabopino, with its marina and its protected dunes, which prices a little below this page per square metre and is a smaller, tighter market. Just west is Las Chapas, a thin and house-heavy list where flats are scarce. Together with this page they are the whole of east Marbella, and they are minutes apart.
Against the golf valley
The deepest flat market on this coast is behind Puerto Banús, and it is worth comparing directly: apartments in Nueva Andalucía offers several times the choice, a higher median per square metre and no beach within walking distance of anything. You are trading depth of supply for position, and the right answer depends entirely on whether you intend to walk to the sea.
And against the town
If daily life without a car is the point, a flat in a working town will serve you better than any part of this shelf — the nearest is San Pedro de Alcántara. East Marbella is a car district, pleasantly so, but it is a car district.
What the figures on this page leave out
Everything above is counted from our own listings and recounted when the page loads. Three things that decide whether a particular flat here is the right one are not in any column, and all three are settled by standing on the terrace rather than by reading a list.
Which side of the coast road you are on
It is a single line on a map and it is the most consequential fact about an address on this shelf. North of it, the beach is a drive and the quiet is real. South of it, the sand is a walk and so is the traffic. Two schemes a few hundred metres apart on opposite sides are not in the same market, whatever their figures look like side by side.
The aspect, and what the ridge does to it
Most of this district faces south, which is why the listings say so. On rising ground the hill behind takes the low winter sun earlier than flat land does, so a terrace that is glorious in June can be in shade by the middle of a January afternoon. Since winter is the half of the year most owners here actually use, go and look at the hour you care about.
And what the pines are worth
The woods above this shelf make the upper district several degrees cooler than the strip in August and give it the air that people who have lived here a long time talk about. They also put you further from everything and oblige the car for a litre of milk. It is a genuine trade rather than a straight improvement, and nobody can make it for you from a photograph.
The apartments for sale in Elviria sit in low blocks among trees
Nothing on this shelf was built tall. The schemes step down the slope in two, three and four storeys with planting in between, and that single characteristic runs through everything else on the page.
Why the height stayed down
The land was sold off in large parcels to separate builders rather than assembled into towers, and on a slope width pays better than height: a low building set back on its own terrace of ground looks over the roof of the one below it. What that produced is a district of roofs among pines rather than a wall of balconies along the sand.
What it does to the top floor
It puts a large share of every scheme up there. In a building of three floors rather than twelve, one home in three is a top-floor home, and the roof above it belongs to the flat instead of to a lift motor. That arithmetic, and not fashion, is why the penthouse is an ordinary purchase in this district and a trophy in most others.
And what it leaves between the buildings
Garden. The ground the blocks did not cover became lawn, hedge, pool deck and parking under trees, and in the older schemes the pines stand higher than the roofs. The planted ground between the blocks photographs worst and is used most. Every type in the district together sits on property for sale in Elviria, the municipal flat list is apartments in Marbella, and our property alarm watches the shelf for the weeks when nothing on it fits; our agents in Estepona know these schemes by name.
Questions about apartments for sale in Elviria
Why are apartments for sale in Elviria cheaper per square metre than the beach districts?
Because the position is good at two things rather than excellent at one. Roughly two thirds of this list records a spot close to the sea and roughly two thirds close to golf, and the two groups overlap — which is only possible on a wide shelf of land where the sand and the fairways are minutes apart. The median per square metre here sits below the beach-side districts of the same municipality and below the golf valley behind Puerto Banús, and that discount is the whole opportunity. The district with every type together is property for sale in Elviria.
Is any of it new building?
Very little: almost all of the apartments for sale in Elviria are resale, because the land on this shelf ran out before the present era of building reached it, and the few empty parcels left change hands at the price of a finished house. What that leaves is a district where the planting is older than the render, the car parks stand under grown trees and the roads were finished a generation ago. It also fixes the shape of what is on offer: nothing tall, buildings set well back from the lane, and more planted ground between them than under them. New schemes elsewhere on the coast are on new developments.
Beach side or golf side for apartments for sale in Elviria?
Depends on the use. Below the coast road the schemes are beachside and behave like a beach strip: busy in August, quiet in January, best for letting by the week. Above it, among the courses, the district is quieter and greener, the stays are longer and the demand falls in spring and autumn. Higher still are the pine hills, cooler and more car-dependent. The attribute lists are beachfront in Marbella and golf property in Marbella.
Are there many penthouses?
An unusually large group: penthouses and penthouse duplexes together make up well over a fifth of the apartments for sale in Elviria, and several carry roof terraces larger than their interiors. That is what the top of a mature low-rise building is worth in a district with views in two directions. It is also the segment where the rate per square metre tells you least, because terrace area is never counted in it, so add the terrace to the size before comparing. See penthouses.
Are apartments for sale in Elviria a good choice for families?
The figures say so. Among the apartments for sale in Elviria, three-bedroom flats are the largest single group, more than half the list records a position close to schools, and a substantial number of the schemes have a children's pool as well as the main one. Ground-floor flats with their own garden are the usual choice for households with small children and ask a little more per square metre than the floor above, because the garden is not counted in the rate. See ground floor apartments.
