R5511754Middle Floor Apartment in Casasola124 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 630,000Golf property for sale in Guadalmina Baja
13 properties for sale in Guadalmina Baja · € 620,000 to € 10,800,000 · median € 6,847/m²
R5511754Middle Floor Apartment in Casasola124 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 630,000
R5213677Detached Villa in Guadalmina Baja543 m², 6 bed, 7 bath€ 5,500,000
R5492743Land in Guadalmina Baja0 bed, 0 bath€ 3,000,000
R5460061Middle Floor Apartment in Casasola135 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 619,500
R5480446Detached Villa in Guadalmina Baja1260 m², 5 bed, 6 bath€ 8,900,000
R4189078Detached Villa in Guadalmina Baja1900 m², 8 bed, 10 bath€ 9,700,000
R5374861Detached Villa in Guadalmina Baja1303 m², 8 bed, 10 bath€ 9,900,000
R5160247Detached Villa in Casasola234 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 2,400,000
R5104297Detached Villa in Guadalmina Baja1018 m², 6 bed, 7 bath€ 10,800,000
R4649410Detached Villa in Guadalmina Baja555 m², 4 bed, 5 bath€ 3,800,000
R5289574Townhouse in Guadalmina Baja252 m², 3 bed, 4 bath€ 700,000
R5463343Penthouse Duplex in Guadalmina Baja286 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 975,000
R5465584Penthouse Duplex in Guadalmina Baja217 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 1,060,000Why golf property for sale in Guadalmina Baja is both
There are 13 golf properties for sale in Guadalmina Baja on our books, from € 620,000 to € 10,800,000, with the middle of the list at € 3,000,000, an average interior of 652 square metres, an average terrace of 186 square metres, an average plot of 2,656 square metres and a median of € 6,847 per square metre. The middle of this list sits higher than the middle of any other golf page we publish.
And the reason is a combination that exists almost nowhere: nine in ten of this page records a position by the golf, and nine in ten also records a beachside one. Everywhere else on this coast the beach and the course are a choice.
A quirk of where one old golf course was laid out.
The course runs down to the shore
Guadalmina's course is among the oldest on this coast, and it was set out across the coastal plain either side of the river rather than up in the hills where later courses went. The fairways here reach almost to the sand, so a property beside them can also be a few minutes' walk from the beach.
Which is why the figures overlap
Nine in ten records close to golf, nine in ten records beachside, and nearly half records a fairway boundary. On the golf pages inland of here nothing is near the water at all; on the beach pages east of here nothing is near a course. This is the one district where both claims describe the same properties.
And why it costs what it does
Because you are not choosing. On this coast the discount for giving up one of the two is substantial and real, and here there is nothing to discount. The median here is several times that of the golf lists a few minutes inland. Every fairway address on the coast is under golf property.
Golf property for sale in Guadalmina Baja is mostly houses on large plots
More than half of this page is a house, which on a themed list is unusual, and the plots under them are the real subject.
The villas
Seven of them, with the average plot running to well over two thousand square metres and the largest past four and a half thousand. Interiors from a little over two hundred square metres to nineteen hundred, six and eight bedrooms common, private pools standard. Several of these are not large family houses but small institutions.
Why plots of that size beside a beach are close to unrepeatable
Because beachside land on this coast is normally divided small — it is too valuable to spend on one family — and large plots are normally inland on hillsides. Here the ground is large, level and a walk from the water, and every subdivision makes two smaller parcels while nothing creates a new large one. See detached villas.
And what sits underneath them
Three penthouse duplexes, two middle-floor flats, a townhouse and one parcel of land. The flats are the only way into this district at a figure most buyers can reach, and the penthouse duplexes among them carry interiors of nearly three hundred square metres. See apartments in Guadalmina Baja.
The price range on golf property for sale in Guadalmina Baja is nearly twenty-fold
From the cheapest property to the dearest, and the step is abrupt rather than gradual.
The flats are the bottom third
From a little over six hundred thousand to about a million, which in the most expensive house district on this site is a remarkable entry point. A two-bedroom flat here shares its address with houses costing fifteen times as much — the same beach, the same club, the same school catchment.
The villas are everything above
Starting around two million and running past ten. The four at the top are all detached houses with interiors above a thousand square metres, and the top of this page competes with the whole coast rather than with the street. The band to read them against is pure luxury.
And the middle is thin
There is a townhouse at seven hundred thousand and then very little until the villas begin. A budget in the middle buys the best flat in the district rather than the worst house, and the worst house comes with the worst plot. It is worth saying plainly because the gap is invisible in an average: a page whose middle sits near three million contains several homes under a million.
What golf property for sale in Guadalmina Baja cannot show you
The thing people assume about a beachside golf district, and the data does not support it.
Hardly any of it sees the sea
Two properties on the whole page record a sea view, against nine in ten recording a beachside position. The district sits on the coastal plain, as level as anywhere on this stretch. On flat ground the building in front blocks the water after one row, so what is on offer here is access rather than outlook.
What it looks at instead
Its own gardens and pools, on three quarters of the page, and the course on about a third. Forty years of planting on ground this size is not a consolation prize, and it is permanent in a way a sea view borrowed across somebody else's land is not.
And a handful record the forest
Which is the cork oak and pine on the rising ground behind the course. On a flat district the hillside behind is the only long view there is, and on a winter morning it is arguably better than a band of water on the horizon. The front line proper is beachfront in Marbella.
What golf property for sale in Guadalmina Baja is in
Three figures from the condition and fittings data.
Two thirds is in excellent order
And only one property records renovation as required, which at this price level is unsurprising: nothing here is cheap enough to neglect. An owner who stops spending at this level sells rather than letting the house slide.
Two thirds has a fireplace
With a third on underfloor heating and a third on central heating. Heating on this coast marks a house somebody lived in through the winter, and in a district with schools, a market across the river and a year-round population that is exactly what you would expect.
And the parking is for collections
Two thirds of the page records a garage and well over half records space for more than one car. On a plot of two thousand square metres several cars are the ordinary arrangement rather than a luxury, and it is one of the clearest signals of what kind of household these houses were built for.
What golf property for sale in Guadalmina Baja is set in
Five things about the grounds and the streets, and together they are the district as it is walked rather than as it is listed.
Gardens the size of small parks
Lawns, stands of stone pine and eucalyptus, cypress hedges along the boundaries and subtropical planting that was put in when ground here was cheap. The gardens in this district are measured in thousands of square metres, not in beds and borders, and on a hot afternoon they are the reason the house behind them stays cool.
Most of it is not behind a gate
Only a minority of this page records a gated complex. The streets here belong to the district rather than to a gated scheme, so security sits on the plot itself: perimeter walls, electric gates and alarms, with a residents' patrol on some roads by agreement. This is a district of private gates rather than one gate.
Pools, and the heated ones
Private pools are standard here, set away from the house on ground that has room for them, and three of the properties record a heated one. A heated pool turns five months of swimming into nine, which on a coast where November is warm and the water is not makes a measurable difference to how a garden is used.
Terraces among the largest we measure
The average terrace here runs to well over sixty square metres and the most generous to more than seven hundred, which is bigger than most apartments on this coast. On level ground facing south the terrace becomes the main room of the house for half the year, and these were drawn on that assumption rather than having outdoor space added later. Terrace area is quoted separately from the interior, so none of those metres reaches the rate per square metre.
And the river that gives the district its name
The Guadalmina comes down between this district and the town and reaches the sea at the eastern end of the beach, across open ground with Roman baths and a watchtower standing beside it. The river bed is the eastern edge of the district and nobody will build on it, which is why the walk east from these streets stays open.
The name on golf property for sale in Guadalmina Baja covers two markets
More consequential here than any figure.
Alta and Baja are two markets with one name
Inland of this district, around the same golf club, lies Guadalmina Alta, which carries the cheapest apartment rate we measure and roughly a third of this rate per square metre. Two halves of one name share a course and a school run and nothing else, and it is among the widest price gaps between any two adjoining districts on this coast.
And a listing will often name neither
Particulars that read simply Guadalmina leave you none the wiser, and the two halves are conflated by buyers and agents alike. Baja is the flat half below the coast road, Alta the rising ground above it. The inland half is golf property in Guadalmina Alta, where two thirds of the list sits on a fairway boundary.
What distinguishes them on the ground
Plot size and the beach. Baja has plots several times larger and the sand on foot; Alta has smaller plots, no sea proximity at all and a higher share of genuine fairway frontage. One word of difference in the name stands for most of the money.
The two courses behind golf property for sale in Guadalmina Baja
Three things about the club itself, because on this page the golf is not a neighbourhood feature but the reason the district exists.
One club with two eighteen-hole layouts
The club keeps two full courses and a short one, which is rare on this coast, where a single layout per club is the norm. One club here holds two eighteen-hole courses and a short one, and between them they occupy most of the ground this district is wrapped around.
The seaward course, which reaches the sand
The older of the two runs across the plain on the sea side of the coast road, through the middle of Baja, and its last holes finish close enough to the beach to hear it. The seaward layout is the reason a fairway and a beach can be the same address, and the parcels along it are the ones this page is mostly made of.
And the inland course, which belongs to Alta
The second layout lies above the coast road on the rising ground, which is where the frontline share is highest and the prices are a third of these. The club straddles the coast road that divides the two markets, which is how one membership covers two price levels. If nothing on this short list suits, our property alarm writes the morning something does — this district trades a handful of times a year and much of it quietly. Our agents in Estepona cover both halves, the district's house list is houses in Guadalmina Baja, everything in it together is property for sale in Guadalmina Baja, and the letting side is on rental services.
Questions about golf property for sale in Guadalmina Baja
Is golf property for sale in Guadalmina Baja really both beachside and on the golf?
Yes, and it is close to unique on this coast: nine in ten of this page records a position by the golf, nine in ten also records a beachside one, and nearly half records a fairway boundary. The reason is that Guadalmina's course is among the oldest here and was laid out across the coastal plain rather than up in the hills, so the fairways reach almost to the beach. On the golf pages inland nothing is near the water; on the beach pages east nothing is near a course. See golf property.
Why is it the most expensive golf list you publish?
Because you are not choosing between the beach and the course, and on this coast the discount for giving up one of the two is substantial. More than half of the golf property for sale in Guadalmina Baja is also houses on plots averaging well over two thousand square metres — large, level land a walk from the sand, which is close to unrepeatable because beachside land is normally divided small and large plots are normally inland. See pure luxury.
Can you see the sea from golf property for sale in Guadalmina Baja?
From two properties on the whole page, against nine in ten recording a beachside position — and that gap catches buyers out. The district sits on the coastal plain, as level as anywhere on this stretch, so the building in front blocks the water after one row. What you buy is access rather than outlook: a few minutes on foot through quiet streets to a broad beach. What the properties look at instead is their own gardens and pools, and the course. See beachfront in Marbella.
Is any of the golf property for sale in Guadalmina Baja affordable?
Relatively. The flats are the bottom third of the golf property for sale in Guadalmina Baja, from a little over six hundred thousand to about a million, which in the most expensive house district on this site is a remarkable entry point — a two-bedroom flat here shares the address, the beach, the golf club and the school catchment with houses costing fifteen times as much. The middle is thin, though: above the townhouse there is very little until the villas begin. See apartments in Guadalmina Baja.
What is the difference between Guadalmina Baja and Guadalmina Alta?
A road, a hillside and roughly a factor of three in the rate per square metre. The golf property for sale in Guadalmina Baja is the flat beachside half with the large plots; Alta is the rising ground inland around the same club, with smaller plots, no sea proximity at all and a higher share of genuine fairway frontage. They share a name, a course and a school run and nothing else, and particulars routinely say only Guadalmina — Baja lies below the coast road, Alta above it. See golf property in Guadalmina Alta.
