NE-SI-5B5B-150ATownhouse in Los Monteros306 m², 5 bed, 5 bath€ 1,973,000Property for sale in Los Monteros
25 properties for sale in Los Monteros · € 495,000 to € 12,000,000 · median € 9,629/m²
NE-SI-5B5B-150ATownhouse in Los Monteros306 m², 5 bed, 5 bath€ 1,973,000
R5526544Detached Villa in Los Monteros288 m², 5 bed, 4 bath€ 2,900,000
NE-QUI-2B1B-20BApartment in Los Monteros122 m², 2 bed, 1 bath€ 575,000
NE-QUI-3B2B-12AMiddle Floor Apartment in Los Monteros125 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 1,050,000
NE-MED-2B2B-160BGround Floor Apartment in Los Monteros115 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 509,000
NE-MED-3B2B-143AMiddle Floor Apartment in Los Monteros152 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 679,000
NE-MED-3B2B-163BMiddle Floor Apartment in Los Monteros157 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 829,000
R5517928Detached Villa in Los Monteros481 m², 6 bed, 5 bath€ 7,500,000
R5336233Residential Plot in Los Monteros450 m², 5 bed, 5 bath€ 1,200,000
R5355496Detached Villa in Los Monteros687 m², 6 bed, 8 bath€ 8,750,000
R5506951Residential Plot in Los Monteros2230 m², 0 bed, 0 bath€ 12,000,000
R5502967Penthouse in Los Monteros117 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 1,295,000
R5293915Ground Floor Apartment in Los Monteros231 m², 3 bed, 4 bath€ 2,950,000
R5410678Detached Villa in Los Monteros459 m², 5 bed, 5 bath€ 4,950,000
R5335186Ground Floor Apartment in Los Monteros186 m², 4 bed, 3 bath€ 3,136,000
R4926622Middle Floor Apartment in Los Monteros176 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 495,000
R5500468Middle Floor Apartment in Los Monteros226 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 3,600,000
R4875970Middle Floor Apartment in Los Monteros150 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 2,450,000
R2043104Detached Villa in Los Monteros450 m², 6 bed, 5 bath€ 3,900,000
R5438806Penthouse Duplex in Los Monteros184 m², 2 bed, 3 bath€ 569,000
R5017567Penthouse in Los Monteros431 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 4,150,000
R5327572Ground Floor Apartment in Los Monteros133 m², 2 bed, 3 bath€ 1,750,000
R5307100Detached Villa in Los Monteros364 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 4,400,000
R5122906Semi-Detached House in Los Monteros238 m², 7 bed, 7 bath€ 1,850,000
R5439775Ground Floor Apartment in Los Monteros122 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 1,390,000Urbanisations in this area: El Rosario, Las Chapas and Río Real.
What property for sale in Los Monteros costs in November 2026
Counted from our own listings every morning. Apartments in Los Monteros run at a median of 12,082 € per square metre across 10 comparable listings — the highest district figure in Marbella. The municipality as a whole sits at 5,911 € and 5,255 €.
Read it as a ceiling, not an average
The figure rests on a small number of listings and is pulled upwards by the front-line schemes. A second-line flat in the same district is a different market at a different price. Where a sample is thin we say so rather than letting the headline stand on its own.
How to read the tables
They compare the districts of Marbella with one another, Los Monteros among them — apartments first, houses below. They cover all apartments and all houses in each district rather than one type each, because a split by district and type together would leave most rows too thin to publish. Use them for the address premium, then the filters at the top of this page for the property itself.
| Area | Typical | Range | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Monteros | 12,082 € | 9,989 – 15,236 € | 10 |
| Puerto Banús | 7,576 € | 6,014 – 10,188 € | 145 |
| Marbella | 6,111 € | 4,588 – 7,946 € | 269 |
| Nueva Andalucía | 5,625 € | 4,637 – 7,184 € | 293 |
| Elviria | 5,319 € | 3,902 – 7,062 € | 101 |
| San Pedro de Alcántara | 4,996 € | 4,190 – 6,302 € | 70 |
| Cabopino | 4,944 € | 4,443 – 6,770 € | 23 |
| Guadalmina Baja | 4,776 € | 3,583 – 6,364 € | 14 |
| Guadalmina Alta | 3,923 € | 3,739 – 4,394 € | 24 |
| Area | Typical | Range | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Banús | 8,159 € | 6,315 – 9,430 € | 16 |
| Guadalmina Baja | 6,881 € | 6,477 – 10,225 € | 26 |
| Río Real | 6,867 € | 5,248 – 8,476 € | 15 |
| Nueva Andalucía | 6,348 € | 4,812 – 9,217 € | 199 |
| El Rosario | 5,813 € | 4,164 – 7,806 € | 33 |
| Guadalmina Alta | 5,566 € | 4,375 – 9,359 € | 21 |
| Elviria | 5,269 € | 4,156 – 7,753 € | 52 |
| San Pedro de Alcántara | 5,088 € | 3,988 – 6,462 € | 48 |
| Cabopino | 4,823 € | 4,502 – 6,639 € | 15 |
| Marbella | 4,713 € | 3,634 – 7,325 € | 148 |
Asking prices, not achieved sale prices. Districts with fewer than ten comparable listings are left out. The figures are counted from our own listings and refreshed with every feed run.
The district where the metre costs more in a flat than in a house
Los Monteros is the beachside district immediately east of Marbella town, a strip of walled urbanisations between the coast road and a long run of sand, with the ground behind the road rising toward the pine slopes. We currently hold 25 properties for sale in Los Monteros, asking from € 495,000 up to € 12,000,000 with the midpoint at € 2,000,000; they average 343 square metres of building and € 9,629 the square metre — a rate set by the position of the strip rather than by the buildings on it.
That sentence is the whole of Los Monteros, and it is the reverse of how this coast normally works. Almost everywhere else a detached house on its own plot carries a higher rate per square metre than an apartment in a scheme. Here the apartment schemes carry the dearest metre and the villas follow behind them, and nothing about construction explains it. Geography does.
Why the order is upside down here
Because the apartment schemes hold the front row. They were built on the sand side of the road, in gated complexes whose gardens finish where the beach begins, and the villas sit behind them on the second and third lines. What is being priced here is the distance to the water, and in this district the flats own that distance. A buyer who assumes a house must be the better value per metre will pay more for less position.
What the rows look like from the terrace
Between a terrace and the sand there is either nothing, or a garden, or another building, and the difference between those three is most of the price. In the front row the view is water and the sound is water. One row back the view is a roofline with the sea above it, and the walk lengthens by the width of somebody else's garden. Two rows back the sea is a glimpse and the road is audible instead.
And where the value sits instead
Behind the road. The second and third lines give a villa on a real plot at a lower rate per metre than a front-line flat, with a garden, a private pool and a short walk or a two-minute drive to the same sand. For a household that will use a garden more than a beach, the back rows are the better ground — and they are the part of this district most buyers drive past.
What the property for sale in Los Monteros consists of
A small list with a very wide spread: at one end a modest flat on the inland side, at the other a beachfront holding in eight figures. Most of what is here is resale rather than new build, which on this stretch means established schemes with mature gardens, marble floors, utility rooms and the installations of their period.
The apartments, which are most of the page
Ground floors and middle floors in near-equal number, with penthouses and a duplex above them. The ground floors matter more here than they usually do, because in a front-line complex a flat with a garden gate onto the lawn is a different proposition from the same flat three storeys up. A ground floor on the sand side is effectively a small house on the beach. They have a page of their own at apartments in Los Monteros, and the wider bands are apartments, ground floor apartments in Marbella and penthouses.
The houses
Detached villas with private pools and gardens, on plots that are generous without being enormous, plus a semi-detached house and a terraced one at the practical end. The houses sit mostly behind the front line, which is why they read as better value per metre than the flats, and in several cases they are. See detached villas in Marbella and pure luxury in Marbella.
The land, and what its scarcity tells you
Beachside ground in this district effectively never changes hands, because the row was laid out once and sold once. When a parcel does appear, the figure is set by what may be built rather than by what is standing — the building on it is treated as something to be removed. That is the clearest statement anybody can make about how narrow this strip is. See residential plots in Marbella.
The beach, which is the entire argument
This is one of the few stretches east of Marbella where a wide sandy beach runs uninterrupted behind a line of low walled complexes rather than a promenade of bars, and where a hotel and a beach club have held the middle of it for decades. Most of the resale stock here records a sea view, and a large share of it is on the front line itself.
What front line actually means on this coast
That nothing stands between the complex and the sand — no road, no second row, no plot belonging to somebody else. Front line is an attribute that cannot be created afterwards, because the row was built once and the parcels behind the sand were sold once. In a district where a large share of the stock has it, that scarcity is the reason the figure per square metre sits where it does.
How much beach there is in February
The sand along this coast moves. Winter storms take a slice off the beach and the council puts much of it back before the season, so the strip you walk on in August is wider than the one left after a bad spell of easterly weather. The beach is a managed thing rather than a fixed one, and it matters more here than in most districts because several of these complexes sit directly behind it, with their own steps and sea walls at the edge of the sand.
The sea itself, and what it does to a building
Salt air is hard on anything metal. Railings, window frames, lift machinery, pool plant and garage doors all wear faster on the front line than two streets inland, which is why the best-kept complexes on this stretch are painting and replacing on a cycle rather than waiting for a reason. It is the reason a façade here is a bigger undertaking than the same façade behind the road.
Security, which is nearly universal here
Almost every property we list in this district sits behind a gate, and the great majority have round-the-clock cover rather than a camera and an entry phone. Staffed gates are why owners who leave a property empty for nine months choose this district, and they are the most visible difference between these schemes and an ordinary coastal urbanisation.
Property for sale in Los Monteros stands in three rows
The front row, where the garden ends at the sand
Low blocks and walled complexes of two and three storeys, set behind lawns, palms and a hedge, with gates straight onto the beach. Nothing here is tall, because the schemes were built when the shore was empty and height was never the point. The front row has grass between the building and the sand rather than a promenade, which is the single thing that distinguishes this stretch from the coast west of the town.
The second row, across a private road
Behind the front complexes runs a service road, and beyond it a second band of schemes and villas, still on the sea side of the main carriageway. These are the addresses that walk to the sand in two or three minutes without owning any of it. The second row buys the beach without the salt and the price of the front one, and on this strip it is where most of the villas with pools stand.
The third row, on the inland side of the coast road
Across the carriageway the ground begins to lift and the character changes: ordinary streets, wider plots, less wall and more hedge, and the beach reached by a crossing or a short drive. The inland row is where the metre is cheapest in this district and where a family that wants a garden rather than a gate onto the sand gets the most for the money.
The hotel and the beach club in the middle of it
A long-established hotel sits at the centre of the strip with its beach club on the sand in front, and both have been there longer than most of the residential schemes around them. The hotel is why this beach has had a restaurant on it for fifty years and why the middle of the strip is busier than either end. For an owner it means somewhere to walk to for lunch, and in July it means the sand in front of it fills first.
The pine slope behind, and what it is not
Above the inland row the hillside rises into pine toward the motorway viaducts, and the urbanisations up there are a separate idea altogether: longer views, cooler nights, a drive to everything. The slope above is a different district in all but name, so a listing described as Los Monteros that sits up among the trees is not offering the thing this page is about. Along the shore the one named sub-address is Los Monteros Palm Beach, on the sand itself.
Who buys property for sale in Los Monteros
Buyers who want the beach and will not compromise on it
The whole district exists for them: somebody who has decided the sand has to be at the end of the garden rather than at the end of a drive, and who has accepted what that costs per square metre. Only a handful of addresses in the municipality answer that brief, and this is the deepest of them.
Owners who are here for part of the year
A gated complex with staffed security, a communal pool and gardens maintained by somebody else is the natural shape of a second home, and it is why so much of this district is built that way. A flat here can be closed in October and opened in June with one phone call, which a villa with a garden cannot.
Families who want the garden more than the sand
They should be looking behind the road, and that is where the houses are. A villa on the second line costs less per metre than a front-line flat and still walks to the beach, with a private pool and a mature garden in between. It is the most sensible trade in the district.
And who should look at the neighbours
Anybody who wants choice, land or a lower figure. The eastern side of Marbella offers the same idea at four different prices: Río Real west beside the oldest course in the municipality, El Rosario on the slope behind, and Las Chapas and Elviria eastward, where the lists are longer and the metre is cheaper.
Owning and letting here
The quota here buys staff rather than paint
What a community charges on this strip reflects what it employs: a gatehouse covered around the clock, gardeners on landscaped grounds, a pool team, and a lift in nearly every block. Security is the largest single recurring line in a front-line scheme, and it varies more between complexes here than any other item does. The schemes with the biggest gardens and the longest beach frontage are the ones with the most to keep.
Letting
A beachside flat here is at the very top of the summer market, and the courses a few minutes inland carry part of the autumn and the spring. August on this sand is the strongest letting week on the eastern side of Marbella, and the five minutes to the old town extend the year at both ends. Our rental service handles the licence, the changeovers and the quarterly filings and quotes net of management.
Why the row matters more than the building
The front line is finite and nobody is going to build another one. The row, the aspect and the state of the shared building are what this district trades on, in that order — a kitchen can be replaced by whoever comes next, and over fifty years most of these have been. The position is the part of the property that no amount of money can add later.
Property for sale in Los Monteros — where to go next
Along the eastern side in order: Río Real toward the town, then El Rosario, Las Chapas, Elviria, Artola and Cabopino around its marina. Westward sit Puerto Banús and Nueva Andalucía. Every district the municipality holds is on Marbella.
By type: apartments in Marbella and middle floor apartments for most of this page, detached villas for the houses behind the road, and the front line of the municipality or the coast-wide beachfront list for the position this district is built on. Golf a few minutes inland is under the golf-side schemes of Marbella. Since the front-line flats here come up a few times a year, the property alarm is the only reliable way to catch one.
Questions about property in Los Monteros
Why is property for sale in Los Monteros the dearest per square metre in Marbella?
Because a small number of schemes sit directly on the sand in a stretch where nothing else can be built, five minutes from the old town. That kind of scarcity does not respond to market cycles, which is why the figure has stayed at the top of the table for years. Nothing inside the apartments explains it — buyers who compare interiors across districts consistently conclude that this one is expensive, and they are right. What they are being asked to pay for is the land, and property for sale in Los Monteros has never been priced any other way. See Puerto Banús for the next step down.
Does that figure apply to every property for sale in Los Monteros?
No, and it is worth being plain about it: the figure rests on a small number of listings and is pulled upwards by the front-line schemes. A second-line apartment in the same district is a different market at a different price, often substantially lower. Use the published figure as the ceiling for property for sale in Los Monteros rather than as its average, and compare the specific building rather than the postcode — Elviria and Las Chapas further east show what the same money buys away from the front line.
What kind of property is on the market here?
Apartments mostly, in front-line and second-line schemes with large communal gardens, pools and direct access to the beach; villas are the smaller group, on the quieter streets between the strip and the hill. Plots are effectively absent — the district was built out decades ago. Front-line stock along the whole coast is collected under the front line of the municipality.
What is the beach like in front of property for sale in Los Monteros?
Wide, sandy and backed by lawns and hedges rather than by a promenade, which is unusual this close to Marbella town. A long-established hotel and its beach club hold the middle of the strip and have done for decades, so there is a restaurant on the sand and a car park behind it, and the sand in front of them fills first in July. Either side of that the beach is quieter, with gates from the complexes opening straight onto it. The sand itself moves through the year: easterly storms take a slice off it in winter and the council replaces much of it before the season. The next beach east, wider again and with less built behind it, is at Las Chapas.
What is the difference between front line and second line here?
Front line means nothing stands between the complex and the sand: no road, no second row, no plot belonging to somebody else. Second line means a private service road and somebody else's garden in between, a walk of two or three minutes instead of a gate, and a figure per square metre that is materially lower. The words are used loosely in advertising and the gap between them is the widest single price step in the district, which is why property for sale in Los Monteros is worth looking at row by row rather than by its address. Behind the coast road the third row is cheaper again — and on the slope above it, a different kind of place entirely, closer to El Rosario in character.