Villas for sale in Nueva Andalucía

120 detached villas for sale in Nueva Andalucía, on plots averaging 1,319 square metres with 532 square metres built. The list runs from 595,000 euros to 12,000,000, and the middle sits at 4,200,000 — the highest midpoint of any district list we keep in Marbella, and the reason is the ground underneath.

Why the plots are what they are

Marbella built along the sea first, and the beachside plots were divided as the town grew. The valley behind Puerto Banús came later and was laid out around three golf courses — Las Brisas, Los Naranjos and Aloha — which fixed the grain of the place: large parcels, wide streets, low density. Across the municipality the villa list averages 1,499 square metres of plot; here it is 1,319.

What you are choosing between

The original houses

Built from the seventies to the nineties, often single-storey or split-level, on the largest plots in the valley. They come to market as they are — which means the price reflects the land and the position, and the house is a question of what you are willing to spend after the notary.

The rebuilds

The same plots, taken down to the ground and built again in the last fifteen years. They set the top of the list, and they are the reason the midpoint sits where it does.

The gated schemes

La Cerquilla, Los Naranjos Country Club and their neighbours: villas inside a closed urbanisation with security and shared gardens. Less land per house than the open streets, a quota to pay, and a different kind of quiet.

What to check before you buy

The register entry and the plan, in that order. Boundaries first — on a plot of this size they are frequently not where anyone thinks, and a survey costs a fraction of the dispute. Then whether every built square metre is licensed: extensions, pool houses, guest flats and glazed terraces are the usual places where the register and the reality part company, and on a rebuild the question is whether the volume that was built is the volume that was permitted.

And the running costs, which on a house of this size are not a footnote: 109 of the 120 have a pool, and a private one means weekly service, chemicals, pump and the electricity for it, beside the garden, the IBI on a large plot and the one to two per cent of value a year that a detached house needs just to stay as it is.

Where to go from here

The whole district is on property for sale in Nueva Andalucía, the townhouses and semi-detached houses under houses, the flats under apartments. The same type across the municipality is detached villas in Marbella, inland villas in Benahavís. If you would rather build, the sites are under plots in Nueva Andalucía.

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