R5407084Ground Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús133 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 790,000Apartments for sale in Puerto Banús
152 properties for sale in Puerto Banús · € 300,000 to € 24,000,000 · median € 7,664/m²
R5407084Ground Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús133 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 790,000
R5460952Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús169 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 1,595,000
R5480623Penthouse Duplex in Puerto Banús114 m², 2 bed, 3 bath€ 1,690,000
R5541913Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús95 m², 1 bed, 1 bath€ 850,000
R5541463Ground Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús58 m², 1 bed, 1 bath€ 535,000
R5524873Penthouse in Puerto Banús267 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 3,895,000
R5354266Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús153 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 2,990,000
R5538157Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús59 m², 1 bed, 1 bath€ 445,000
R5538940Duplex in Puerto Banús190 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 2,400,000
R5538259Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús163 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 850,000
R5106511Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús102 m², 2 bed, 1 bath€ 499,000
R5534878Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús104 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 540,000
R5329996Ground Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús171 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 790,000
R5464096Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús125 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 729,000
R5530462Ground Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús105 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 1,050,000
R5527045Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús45 m², 1 bed, 1 bath€ 490,000
R5528404Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús152 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 2,950,000
R5526928Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús262 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 3,600,000
R5526658Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús69 m², 1 bed, 1 bath€ 445,000
R5161300Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús58 m², 1 bed, 1 bath€ 550,000
R5148346Penthouse in Puerto Banús97 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 2,300,000
R5367979Ground Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús183 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 3,650,000
R5456119Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús122 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 1,675,000
R5391031Penthouse in Puerto Banús80 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 975,000
R5456113Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús153 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 1,950,000
R5384125Ground Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús154 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 825,000
R5120569Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús140 m², 3 bed, 2 bath€ 760,000
R5339104Ground Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús180 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 799,000
R5516800Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús100 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 599,000
R5523568Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús180 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 1,250,000
R4968694Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús39 m², 1 bed, 1 bath€ 300,000
R5475976Ground Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús186 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 750,000
R5520205Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús149 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 575,000
R5517457Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús91 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 620,000
R5517052Penthouse Duplex in Puerto Banús186 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 1,975,000
R4688155Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús120 m², 1 bed, 2 bath€ 700,000
R5512891Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús95 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 510,000
R5259064Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús100 m², 2 bed, 2 bath€ 599,000
R5516209Middle Floor Apartment in Puerto Banús171 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 1,350,000What the name promises and what the apartments for sale in Puerto Banús list contains
There are 152 apartments for sale in Puerto Banús on our books, from € 300,000 to € 24,000,000, with the middle of the list at € 898,000, an average built area of 160 square metres, an average terrace of 57 square metres and a median of € 7,664 per square metre. Two facts about that list are worth having before you scroll it: the commonest property on it has two bedrooms, and new building is close to absent from this market.
Both of those will surprise anybody who knows the name only from the harbour. The port sells an image of yachts and watch shops. The list sells flats, most of them modest, in buildings put up over the last fifty years by people who have since sold them on.
Over half of the apartments for sale in Puerto Banús here have two bedrooms. Add the one-bedroom flats and the studio and the share grows further. The four, five and six-bedroom properties, the ones the name conjures, are a handful at the top. The entry price of this address is lower than its reputation, and the figure in the table above says by how much.
Why the entry price is lower than the reputation
Because the port was built as a marina with housing around it rather than as an enclave of villas, and the housing was built dense: low blocks, courtyards, garage levels, two-bedroom plans repeated hundreds of times. That stock is now second-hand, it is held by thousands of different owners, and some of them need to sell this year. A famous address with a deep supply of small flats produces a market with a genuinely accessible bottom end.
And why the top end is in a different league entirely
At the top of Puerto Banús sits the kind of home the rest of the coast is measured against — a penthouse whose terrace is as large as its interior, at a rate per square metre several times the district median. The top of this page is not competing with the rest of it in any meaningful sense. The comparison for it is pure luxury in Marbella, and what it shares with a two-bedroom flat in the same marina is a postcode and nothing else.
What the spread does to any average
From cheapest to dearest on this page is a factor well into double figures, and the rate per square metre spreads nearly as widely. That is why the table above quotes a median rather than an average: the mean of this list would sit far above the price of most of the properties in it and would describe nothing you could actually buy. Use the median, then compare a specific flat against the two or three genuinely like it.
The apartments for sale in Puerto Banús were built between the sixties and the nineties
The harbour opened at the end of the nineteen-sixties and the streets behind it filled in over the three decades that followed, which is the whole of the district's building history. New construction here is structurally rather than seasonally rare: the ground around the port was built out then, and what little comes forward anywhere nearby is a replacement rather than an addition. There is no undeveloped parcel left inside the district, so what changes hands here is somebody else's home.
Why the floor plans vary so much from block to block
Fifty years of changing taste are on sale on one page. The earliest flats have deep rooms, small windows and a balcony rather than a terrace; the eighties widened the openings and put the kitchen on the outside wall; the nineties brought the covered terrace that doubles as a second living room, and the renovations of the last decade have taken walls out of all three. Two flats of identical floor area here can be twenty years and two different lives apart, which is why the square-metre figure tells you so little until you have seen the plan.
The condition field is worth reading closely
Most of these listings describe themselves as in excellent or good order, a substantial minority as recently renovated or refurbished, and a few as requiring work. Those last ones are where the value sits for a buyer with the appetite for it: in a district where nothing new can be built, the only way to create a modern flat is to gut an old one, and the arithmetic usually works if the position is right.
And where the bargains genuinely are
A handful of listings here carry the attributes reduced, bargain or distressed. Treat all three words with suspicion and then look anyway, because in a market with this much second-hand depth, a seller with a reason to move produces a real discount rather than a marketing one. Our property alarm exists mostly for exactly this: the one that is priced properly goes in days.
Where the apartments for sale in Puerto Banús actually stand
Beachside, which most of them are
The great majority of this list records beachside, a large minority records beachfront outright and a smaller group sits in a front line beach complex. That is the strongest single attribute of the district: the port is on the water, the housing is on the water, and the walk from a flat to the sand is measured in minutes rather than kilometres. The front line proper, across the whole municipality, is under beachfront in Marbella.
Beside the port and inside a town
Almost all of these listings record close to shops and close to the port, and most close to the marina and the town. Practically that means a flat here can be lived in without a car — the supermarkets, the chemists, the restaurants and the bus are all walkable, which is true of very few districts between Marbella and Gibraltar. It is also why this is among the best letting districts on the coast.
The lift, which is almost universal here
Most of the apartments for sale in Puerto Banús record a lift: a lift is close to standard in this district, which is a far higher share than the coast as a whole and a direct consequence of the district being built in blocks rather than in low terraces. It matters for resale, for letting and eventually for you. The minority without one are usually in the older, lower buildings, and they should be priced accordingly.
And parking, which is the real local currency
A majority record underground or private parking, and in this district that is not a convenience but a substantial part of the value. A parking space here carries a price of its own: the streets around the port in August are not an option at any hour, and a flat without a space is a flat whose owner spends the summer circling. The garage levels under the courtyard blocks are the reason those blocks sit where they do.
The floors of the apartments for sale in Puerto Banús, which are separate markets
Middle floors, the body of the list
More than half of these flats are middle floors, and they are the cheapest route into any given building — no garden to pay for, no roof terrace, no ground-floor security worry. If your aim is to own something in this district at the lowest sensible figure, this is the segment to work through. The coast-wide list is middle floor apartments.
Ground floors and their gardens
Roughly a fifth of the list sits on the ground with a terrace or a garden, and on this coast those usually ask slightly more per square metre than the floor above — because the garden is not counted in the built area and therefore not in the rate. For a family with small children or a dog they are the only sensible choice, and they let well for the same reason.
Penthouses, where the terrace is the purchase
Penthouses and penthouse duplexes together make up a sixth of this page, and they are the segment where the published rate per square metre is least informative, because a roof terrace of a hundred square metres adds nothing to the built area and a great deal to the life. A roof cannot be added to a building later, which is why this segment holds value better than the floors below it. The coast-wide list is penthouses.
And the terraces across the whole list
The average terrace on this page is a serious fraction of the average interior, and the top of the list is where that ratio becomes extreme. Count the terrace into the size when you compare two flats, and then look at which way it faces and whether it is covered — an uncovered west-facing terrace is a furnace in August and a joy in April, and no listing will tell you which problem you are buying.
Four kinds of block hold the apartments for sale in Puerto Banús
The district is small enough to walk end to end in twenty minutes and it contains four quite distinct families of building. A listing rarely says which family it belongs to, but the photographs do, and once you can tell them apart the page sorts itself.
The front-line complexes either side of the quay
Low white terraces stepping down to the sand, each flat with its own stretch of seaward wall and the communal garden between the building and the beach. Nothing can be built between a front-line terrace here and the water, which is the whole of what the premium pays for. These are also the oldest buildings in the district, which is why their plots are so generous by modern standards.
The courtyard blocks in the streets behind
Four and five storeys around a pool and a lawn, entered through a gate off a side street, with the parking a level down. The body of this list is a two-bedroom flat in a courtyard block three streets from the water, and it is the segment that actually sets the entry price of the address rather than the one the name conjures.
The long balconied blocks on the main avenue
Facing the road that carries everything into the port, with shops and restaurants at street level and flats above them from the first floor up. The trade here is noise against convenience: the sand, the bus and the supermarket are all a flat walk, and in August the window stays shut. On the avenue the upper floors are worth markedly more than the lower ones, for reasons you can hear.
And the schemes on the slope towards Nueva Andalucía
Above the port the ground starts to climb and the blocks turn their backs on the sea to face the valley and the hills. Gardens get larger, pools get warmer, the walk to the quay turns into a walk back up, and the prices fall away quickly. The deeper hillside market is Nueva Andalucía, and the boundary between the two is a matter of a few hundred metres.
What apartments for sale in Puerto Banús are for
Letting, which a large share of this list is built around
A substantial number of these listings carry the holiday-homes or investment attribute, and the reason is the walk. Guests book what they can reach on foot, and from here that is the sand, the port, the restaurants and the shops. The season is longer than on an isolated beach strip because the port works in February. The season is also longer here than on an isolated beach strip, because the port works in February as well as in August. What letting one of these flats involves for an owner is set out under rental services.
Living here all year
Entirely possible, and a minority do it, but go in knowing what August is: the district receives a large share of the coast visitors and the streets reflect it. The compensation is the other ten months, when the port is pleasant, the restaurants are half empty and everything is still open. Visit in both before deciding, because this is a district people love in one season and regret in the other.
And as a first purchase on this coast
It is a defensible choice, for one reason that has nothing to do with glamour: in a district where nothing more can be built, the supply is fixed and the demand is international. That is the nearest thing to a durable position on this coast. The other places to weigh against it are the deeper flat market up the hill at apartments in Nueva Andalucía and the working town along the coast at San Pedro de Alcántara.
And where this list sits against its neighbours
Westwards the coast opens into a working town where the same money buys a larger flat further from the water; eastwards the Golden Mile begins and the figures change direction entirely. The marina is the dearest short walk to the sand in the municipality, and every list around it is priced against that walk. Our agents in Estepona cover all of them. Everything we hold in the district, houses included, is on property for sale in Puerto Banús, and the municipal flat list is apartments in Marbella.
Questions about apartments for sale in Puerto Banús
What is the cheapest way into apartments for sale in Puerto Banús?
A one or two-bedroom middle-floor flat in an older block away from the front line. Over half of the apartments for sale in Puerto Banús have two bedrooms and more than half sits on a middle floor, so the supply at that end is real rather than token, and the figure in the table above is lower than the reputation of the address suggests. The coast-wide segment is middle floor apartments, and our property alarm will write to you when a correctly priced one arrives.
Why is new building so rare in Puerto Banús?
Because the ground around the port was built out decades ago and there is no undeveloped parcel of any size left in the district. Almost all of the apartments for sale in Puerto Banús are second-hand, which means the age of the block is what separates one flat from the next: white front-line terraces from the first years of the marina, courtyard schemes of four and five storeys in the streets behind, balconied blocks along the avenue, and renovations that have gone through all three. New schemes across the five municipalities are on new developments.
Is the most expensive listing really worth that much?
It is not competing with the flats beneath it at all: a penthouse whose terrace is as large as its interior, at several times the district median rate. Judge it against pure luxury in Marbella rather than against its neighbours. It is also the reason the table above quotes a median instead of an average — the mean of this list would describe nothing you could buy.
Can I live in apartments for sale in Puerto Banús without a car?
Yes, and that is unusual on this coast. Almost every listing records close to shops and close to the port, most record the town and the marina, and the great majority are beachside. Parking is still worth paying for, though: the streets in August are not an option at any hour, which is why a garage space here carries a price of its own. The district with its houses included is property for sale in Puerto Banús.
Do apartments for sale in Puerto Banús let well?
Apartments for sale in Puerto Banús let about as well as anything on this coast, because guests book what they can walk to and from here that is the sand, the port, the restaurants and the shops — which also gives the district a longer season than an isolated beach strip. A large share of this list carries the holiday-homes or investment attribute for that reason. What it suits is weeks and fortnights rather than months, because the guests who come for the port come in season; see rental services.
