NE-QUI-3B2B-12AMiddle Floor Apartment in Los Monteros125 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 1,050,000Apartments for sale in Los Monteros
15 properties for sale in Los Monteros · € 495,000 to € 4,200,000 · median € 9,629/m²
NE-QUI-3B2B-12AMiddle Floor Apartment in Los Monteros125 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 1,050,000
NE-QUI-2B1B-20BApartment in Los Monteros122 m², 2 bed, 1 bath€ 575,000
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
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
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
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
R5439775Ground Floor Apartment in Los Monteros122 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 1,390,000What the front row of the apartments for sale in Los Monteros is paying for
There are 15 apartments for sale in Los Monteros on our books, from € 495,000 to € 4,200,000, with the middle of the list at € 1,300,000, an average interior of 175 square metres, an average terrace of 53 square metres and a median of € 9,629 per square metre. That median is what an unrepeatable front row costs. The figure moves with the stock rather than with the market, because a district of this size can hold a handful of homes at a time and each of them carries its own position, so read the middle as a reminder of where the district sits rather than as the price of anything in particular.
And yet the gentlest rate in the district stays under three thousand a square metre. From the bottom of the rate range to the top is a factor of six, which is the widest spread we measure anywhere. One address, two completely different markets, and the line between them is a single row of buildings.
Close to half of this page records a beachfront position and nearly as many record a front-line beach complex. Those are the dearest homes here and the reason the median rate is what it is.
Front line means nothing in front of you
Not a walk to the sand but the sand itself, with no road, no car park and no other building in between. The shoreline is public and the setback is law, so what stands in front of a front-line complex today is what will stand there in fifty years. On a coast where every other attribute can be built, bought or renovated, that one cannot be created at all.
Why this particular beach
Because it is one of the broadest and best-regarded stretches in the municipality, with a long-established beach club and hotel at its centre giving the district a name that predates most of what surrounds it. A front-line flat here is bought by people who have decided on the beach first and the apartment second.
What that costs in practice
The steepest rates here run past sixteen thousand a square metre, which is higher than most of Puerto Banús manages. Nobody pays that for rooms; they pay it for a position that cannot be reproduced. Everything on the municipal front line is beachfront in Marbella.
What the back of the apartments for sale in Los Monteros is paying for
The other half of this page is a different purchase entirely, and for a great many buyers it is the better one.
One row back, and a fraction of the rate
At the gentler end of this district a three-bedroom flat of well over a hundred and seventy square metres comes at a rate the front row never approaches — more floor area than the middle of the list, for a fraction of its rate per metre. It is not on the sand. It is a few minutes' walk from it, in the same district, with the same beach club down the road.
Why the gap is so violent
Because front line is a binary rather than a gradient. A building either has nothing in front of it or it has something, and there is no halfway position to price. In districts where the front row is a small part of the stock the effect is hidden in the average; here the front row is half the page and the split is impossible to miss.
Which half you should be shopping in
Settle it before you view, because the two will not feel like the same market. If you will swim most days from May to October and the view from the sofa is the point, the premium is money well spent. If you will use the beach a dozen times a year, the back row gives you half again the floor area for a quarter of the rate, and the walk takes four minutes.
What size the apartments for sale in Los Monteros are
Larger than a beach-strip flat usually is, which is worth knowing before the rates frighten you off.
Three bedrooms leads
Over half the page has three bedrooms and most of the rest has two, with a single four-bedroom home. Interiors run from the middle hundreds to well past four hundred square metres at the top, and the median sits comfortably above a hundred and fifty. These were drawn as homes rather than as holiday studios.
Ground floors and middle floors, in equal number
An even split, which is unusual. The ground-floor homes in these schemes open onto the communal gardens between the blocks and the beach, which on a front-line complex is the most valuable position in the building for anyone with children or a dog. They also carry a garden that no rate per square metre counts. See ground floor apartments.
And the terraces are modest for the money
Average terrace area runs to roughly a quarter of the interior, which is a reminder of when most of these blocks were designed: a balcony was a balcony then, and the deep outdoor room arrived a generation later. The exceptions are the newest schemes, where the terraces are considerably more generous and priced accordingly.
What the gardens do on the apartments for sale in Los Monteros
On a front-line complex the communal garden is not landscaping. It is the strip of ground between the building and the beach, and it is doing three jobs at once.
It is the buffer
A planted garden of any depth between a block and the sand absorbs the noise of a busy August beach, keeps the pedestrian traffic off the building and makes the walk down feel like a private path rather than a public one. A front-line scheme with a shallow garden and one with a deep one are different places to live, and the difference does not appear in any figure.
It takes constant work to keep alive beside salt water
Mature subtropical planting a few metres from the sea does not look after itself: irrigation, replacement, pruning, and a gardener who knows what survives in sand and spray. The gardens rather than the pool are what a front-line community puts its effort into, and a scheme that has let them go announces it from the beach long before anybody reaches the gate. Walking in from the sand tells you how a place is run.
And it is the view from the lower floors
More of these flats record a garden view than you might expect on a beach strip, and on the ground and first floors the garden is what you actually look at, with the water above and beyond it. Most people find that the better picture and all people find it the cooler one in August. Walk the garden before you judge the flat.
And it decides what the walk down to the sand is like
Between a garden and the water there is sometimes a strip of dune, sometimes a low wall with a gate in it, and sometimes a public path running along the back of the beach. A gate from your own garden onto the sand is a different property from a shared path, and both get described with the same word in the particulars. The schemes along here differ on that more than on anything inside the buildings.
A quarter of the apartments for sale in Los Monteros are new building
The rest is resale, and the mixture is what makes this page readable rather than confusing.
Where the new schemes sit
Set back from the front row, on the land behind the established complexes, which is the only ground left here. They enter at a lower absolute price than the front-line resales and a lower rate, with current construction and terraces drawn this decade. For a buyer who wants the district and the newer building rather than the water from the sofa, they are the obvious place to look.
What the newer schemes look like
Deep terraces, open living space, parking under the building and a pool meant to be used in April rather than only in August. They stand taller than the front-line blocks, among planting that will need a generation to look like the old gardens. A terrace drawn this decade is roughly twice the depth of one drawn fifty years ago, and that difference alone explains why the two generations of building appeal to different people. The unfinished stock across the coast is on new developments.
And what the resales give you instead
The position, the mature gardens and a community whose costs are known. In a district where the front row cannot be rebuilt, the old blocks hold something the new ones cannot buy — which is why the dearest homes in the district are also among the oldest.
What the complexes holding the apartments for sale in Los Monteros are like
A handful of established schemes account for most of this page, and they have a great deal more in common with each other than with anything put up on this coast since. Four things describe them.
Low blocks set well back behind their own walls
Nothing on this front line was built tall. The blocks run to three or four storeys, they stand a long way back from the sand behind their own gardens, and from the beach you see planting and roof tiles rather than a tier of balconies. A low front line behind deep gardens is what this district is known for, and it is why the beach here does not feel built up at the height of August.
A hotel and a beach club at the centre of it
The district grew up around a hotel of long standing and its beach club on the sand, which is why the name is older than most of what surrounds it. For an owner it means a restaurant on the shore that opens out of season and a stretch of beach that is looked after rather than merely public. It also means arrivals and departures on the lane through the summer.
Gates, guards and lanes that lead nowhere
Almost every scheme here is gated, several are staffed, and the streets between them run to the next gate and stop. A lane that leads nowhere carries no passing traffic, which is most of what the walls and the barriers are really buying. The quiet in these streets in February is the thing returning owners mention first.
And plans that belong to their decade
Interiors here were laid out when a flat on the beach meant separate rooms rather than one open space, so halls, formal dining rooms and modest kitchens are common and deep terraces are not. The newer schemes behind the front row reverse every one of those choices. Which of the two suits you is a question about how you live rather than about what either is worth.
Where the apartments for sale in Los Monteros sit
This is the start of east Marbella, and the districts either side are a few minutes away and nothing like it.
West, towards the town
The coast tightens and the prices rise into the Golden Mile and Marbella itself. Immediately inland of here is houses in El Rosario, a villa district on the slope above with almost no flats at all, and apartments in Río Real around the golf course between the two.
East, along the shelf
The land widens into apartments in Elviria, several times the size of this market and roughly half the rate per square metre, where the position is good at both beach and golf rather than excellent at one. That comparison is the honest one for anyone weighing the back row here.
And the district as a whole
Mostly houses rather than flats: everything in it together is property for sale in Los Monteros, the municipal flat list is apartments in Marbella, and the coast-wide front line is beachfront property.
How often the apartments for sale in Los Monteros come up
This is a small district of large homes, so the supply is a trickle rather than a stream. The two halves of it behave quite differently, and a buyer with a moving date needs to know which one he is waiting for.
The front row changes hands rarely
Flats in the front-line complexes tend to stay with a family for a long time, and when one does go it often goes to somebody who already knows the scheme from visiting it. A front-line flat here is more often sold to an acquaintance than to the market, which is why the published list is always shorter than the number of owners who would sell at the right figure. Patience is part of buying one.
The back row moves more like an ordinary market
Behind the first line the homes are larger, the rate per metre is a fraction of what the sand costs, and they arrive and go at something closer to a normal pace. That is where a buyer working to a date should be looking, and it is also where comparison with the districts on either side is worth doing properly.
And if the right flat is not listed today
Front-line homes here come up rarely and sell quickly, often before they are advertised. Set the criteria once — front row or back, floor, bedrooms, terrace — and our property alarm writes to you the morning a match appears. Our agents in Estepona cover east Marbella and know which complexes stand on the front row and which stand one line back from it.
Questions about apartments for sale in Los Monteros
Why is the rate per square metre on the apartments for sale in Los Monteros the highest on the coast?
Because close to half of the apartments for sale in Los Monteros are front-line beach — nothing between the building and the sand, no road and no car park. The shoreline is public and the setback is law, so what stands in front of a front-line complex today will stand there in fifty years, and that is the one attribute on this coast that cannot be built, bought or renovated. The beach itself is among the broadest in the municipality, with a long-established beach club at its centre. The municipal front line is beachfront in Marbella.
Why is the gentlest price in the district so much lower?
Because front line is a binary rather than a gradient: a building either has nothing in front of it or it has something, and there is no halfway position to price. At the gentler end, apartments for sale in Los Monteros run to three-bedroom homes of well over a hundred and seventy square metres at a rate the front row never approaches — more floor area than the middle of the list, for a fraction of its rate per metre, a few minutes' walk from the same sand. Between the two ends of this district the rate per metre moves by a multiple rather than a margin. See property for sale in Los Monteros.
Front row or back row among the apartments for sale in Los Monteros?
Settle it before you view, because the two will not feel like one market. If you will swim most days from May to October and the view from the sofa is the point, the premium is money well spent and the position is permanent. If you will use the beach a dozen times a year, the back row gives you half again the floor area for a quarter of the rate and a four-minute walk. The wider comparison worth making is apartments in Elviria, at roughly half the rate again.
How big are the apartments for sale in Los Monteros?
Larger than beach-strip flats usually are, which is worth knowing before the rates put you off. Over half have three bedrooms, most of the rest two, and the median interior sits comfortably above a hundred and fifty square metres with the largest past four hundred. Ground floors and middle floors appear in equal number — and on a front-line complex the ground floor, opening onto the gardens between the blocks and the sand, is the most valuable position in the building. See ground floor apartments.
What are the beach complexes in Los Monteros actually like?
Low, walled and set a long way back from the water. None of the buildings holding the apartments for sale in Los Monteros was put up tall: three or four storeys is the norm, each block stands behind its own garden, and what you see from the sand is planting and roof tiles instead of a tier of balconies. The beach here does not read as built up, even in August. Nearly every scheme is gated and some are staffed, and the lanes between them run to the next gate and stop, so nothing passes through. At the centre of the district stands a hotel of long standing with its beach club on the sand, which is why the name is older than most of what grew up around it, and why there is a restaurant on this shore that opens out of season. Indoors the layouts belong to their decade: halls, separate dining rooms, modest kitchens, shallow balconies. The district as a whole is at property for sale in Los Monteros.
