R5465461Detached Villa in Puerto Banús417 m², 6 bed, 4 bath€ 2,100,000Houses for sale in Puerto Banús
18 properties for sale in Puerto Banús · € 650,000 to € 12,000,000 · median € 8,159/m²
R5465461Detached Villa in Puerto Banús417 m², 6 bed, 4 bath€ 2,100,000
R5506486Semi-Detached House in Puerto Banús372 m², 5 bed, 4 bath€ 2,980,000
R4802086Semi-Detached House in Puerto Banús375 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 3,800,000
R5528398Detached Villa in Puerto Banús816 m², 5 bed, 5 bath€ 5,450,000
R5523496Semi-Detached House in Puerto Banús461 m², 5 bed, 4 bath€ 1,995,000
R5363851Detached Villa in Puerto Banús287 m², 3 bed, 3 bath€ 1,330,000
R4963945Detached Villa in Puerto Banús404 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 3,715,000
R5068387Detached Villa in Puerto Banús400 m², 6 bed, 6 bath€ 3,195,000
R5347981Detached Villa in Puerto Banús703 m², 7 bed, 8 bath€ 9,000,000
R5395735Semi-Detached House in Puerto Banús401 m², 7 bed, 3 bath€ 2,395,000
R4890940Detached Villa in Puerto Banús338 m², 4 bed, 4 bath€ 12,000,000
R4821640Semi-Detached House in Puerto Banús385 m², 5 bed, 6 bath€ 2,475,000
R5043874Detached Villa in Puerto Banús373 m², 6 bed, 6 bath€ 4,200,000
R5469355Semi-Detached House in Puerto Banús297 m², 5 bed, 4 bath€ 2,585,000
R5226208Semi-Detached House in Puerto Banús297 m², 5 bed, 3 bath€ 2,675,000
R5462554Bungalow in Puerto Banús325 m², 3 bed, 34 bath€ 2,700,000
R5347750Townhouse in Puerto Banús289 m², 2 bed, 3 bath€ 650,000
R4409782Detached Villa in Puerto Banús226 m², 4 bed, 5 bath€ 4,750,000What the houses for sale in Puerto Banús are actually priced on
There are 18 houses for sale in Puerto Banús on our books, from € 650,000 to € 12,000,000, with the middle of the list at € 2,800,000, an average interior of 398 square metres, an average terrace of 180 square metres, an average plot of 743 square metres and a median of € 8,159 per square metre. Two of those figures sit oddly together: this is the steepest rate per square metre a house market on this coast reaches, and the plots are among the smallest.
Everywhere else on this coast the dearest houses stand on the largest land. Here the dearest houses do not stand on the largest land, and that inversion is the most useful thing to understand before you look at a single listing.
Not land, not floor area, and in most cases not the view. The thing being paid for here is the walk.
Everything is on foot from here
Two thirds of this page records a position close to the port and half close to the marina; two thirds is close to town and a third beachside. A handful record a port or town setting outright, which means inside it rather than near it. No other house market on this coast puts a marina, a beach, a high street and several hundred restaurants inside a walk of your own front door.
Why that commands a premium over land
Because land can be bought elsewhere and this cannot. A thousand extra square metres of garden is available ten minutes inland at a fraction of the price; a house you can walk home to from dinner at the port exists in one place. Scarcity sets price, and what is scarce here is proximity rather than space.
What the top of this market tells you
It is not the biggest. The most expensive property here has an interior well under half that of the biggest house in the district, and its rate per square metre is steeper than any house on this coast. Nobody pays that for rooms. They pay it for the address and for what is around it. The highest band on this coast, every district together, is pure luxury.
The plots under the houses for sale in Puerto Banús are small by villa standards
Average plot size here is a fraction of what the villa districts a few minutes west record, and that is deliberate rather than accidental.
The land was divided for value, not for gardens
When the port was built in the nineteen-sixties the land around it became the most valuable on the coast overnight. Valuable land gets divided small, because a smaller parcel still sells and a larger one wastes the position. The result is villas on plots that would be considered modest in Elviria or Guadalmina Baja.
What that means for the house you get
The houses here go up rather than out. Interiors are generous — the average is well above three hundred square metres — but they are stacked on a compact footprint, often over three levels with a basement. Terraces are large relative to the plot and do a lot of the work the garden does elsewhere.
And what it means for the garden
That it is a courtyard rather than a park. Nearly every house on this page has a pool, and on a plot of this size the pool and the terrace are most of the outdoor space. If a lawn is what you want, the honest comparison is houses in Guadalmina Baja, which has plots several times the size at a lower rate per square metre.
Four kinds of house, which is unusual for a market this small
A short list, and four different kinds of home within it, down to the occasional bungalow — a form that barely exists anywhere else on this coast.
The villas
Just over half the page: detached houses on compact plots, mostly with four to seven bedrooms, private pools and a garage. They run from a little over a million to the top of the list, and they are what most buyers come here for. See detached villas.
The semi-detached houses, which are the surprise
A substantial group — more of them, proportionally, than almost any other house market we cover. They are the sensible way into this district: your own front door, your own garden and pool in several cases, one shared wall, and a price well below the detached houses around them. A semi-detached house here buys the same walk for less, which for a buyer who wants the walk rather than the acreage is frequently the right answer. That whole segment across the municipality is on semi-detached houses in Marbella.
And the townhouses at the bottom
A small group at the bottom of the market, with a rate per metre in four figures where the district median is several times that. A large terraced house a walk from the marina is the quiet value position in this district, and it exists because terraced houses are not what people picture when they picture Puerto Banús.
How big the houses for sale in Puerto Banús are
Larger than the plots suggest, and distributed in a way that tells you who built them and for whom.
Six bedrooms and four bedrooms, in equal measure
Those two are the commonest counts on this page, with a group at seven and a group at five and a single two-bedroom house at the bottom. A district of compact plots producing six and seven bedroom houses is only possible because the houses are tall — three levels and a basement is the normal arrangement here, and it is why the interior figures look so generous beside the plot figures.
What living on several levels is actually like
Stairs, and a lot of them. It is the one thing nobody considers at a viewing and the first thing that matters ten years later. A house of this kind usually puts the bedrooms above and the living space at garden level, with the plant, the garage and often a cinema or a gym below — which works beautifully at fifty and less well at eighty. A domestic lift is commoner in this district than anywhere near it, precisely because the houses were built upwards.
And the terraces, which carry the garden
The average terrace among the houses for sale in Puerto Banús runs to well over a third of the interior, which is high and necessary: on a plot this size the terrace is the garden. Note that no rate per square metre counts terrace area, so every house here looks dearer by the rate than it is — and in a district where the rates are already steep, that distortion is worth correcting for before you take fright at a number.
Renovation projects are rare among the houses for sale in Puerto Banús
Almost every property here describes itself as excellent or good, and a requirement to renovate hardly ever appears. Across our house markets that is unusual, and in this district it has a structural cause rather than a seasonal one.
Why the stock is in order
Because nothing here is cheap enough to neglect. At these values a house is maintained, insured and usually refurbished at least once, and an owner who stops spending sells rather than lets it slide. The market does the maintenance, in effect.
What that costs you
The chance to add value. There is no project on this page, no tired villa on a good plot waiting to be rebuilt, and therefore no way to buy in below the market and work your way up. You are paying the finished price for a finished house.
And what it saves you
Risk and time. There are no unpleasant discoveries waiting in a house that has been looked after continuously, so what you agree is close to what you end up spending. If you own one of these and are weighing a sale, sell your property sets out how we handle it.
What the houses for sale in Puerto Banús look out at
Less water than the name suggests, and the reason is the same one that keeps the plots small.
Gardens and pools first
Three quarters of this page records a garden view and half a pool view, against half for the sea. In a district built densely on low ground, what a house sees is its own courtyard — which given the quality of the planting and the size of the terraces is not a hardship, and a courtyard is permanent in a way a sea view over somebody else's plot is not.
The ones that do see the sea
Half the list, and a couple record a beach view outright, which means the sand is in the window and not merely the horizon beyond it. Those are the properties closest to the shore and they carry the premium you would expect. Everything on the municipal front line sits on beachfront in Marbella.
And the ones that see the street
A handful record an urban view, which in a listing usually signals something gone wrong and here signals something quite specific: the house is in the district rather than on its edge. For somebody buying Puerto Banús in order to walk out into it, that is the point rather than the problem.
What the houses for sale in Puerto Banús are like to own
Three practical matters, all of them visible in the figures.
Nearly all of them have a pool and somewhere to park
With very few exceptions, which is worth stating because in this district neither is a given — parking in Puerto Banús is the single most contested commodity in the area, and a house with a garage and a drive is holding something genuinely valuable. A garage and a drive are worth a flat of their own here, which is why the older houses that were given only one bay sit at a discount to their neighbours.
Half of them are not gated
Only half the page records a gated complex. The rest are on public streets with alarms, walls and electric gates handled plot by plot. Half of these houses are on public streets rather than behind a barrier, which in a district with this much footfall is the sharpest single difference between one lane and the next.
And August is not quiet
This is the honest caveat and it applies to the whole district. The port in high summer is loud, busy and lit until very late, and the streets around it carry traffic at hours when a residential district would not. Several of the houses on this page are far enough back to be unaffected and several are not, and no listing field marks the line. Two streets inland is the difference between a loud August and a quiet one, and the other ten months are quiet throughout.
Which streets the houses for sale in Puerto Banús stand in
The flats and the houses of this district do not share the same ground. Blocks were put where the footfall is and houses were put where it is not, so the house market occupies three bands that a visitor to the harbour never walks through.
Between the avenue and the beach
A narrow band of walled plots west of the harbour mouth, reached through gates off short cul-de-sacs, where the garden wall is a few steps from the promenade and the sand is a walk of a minute or two. These are the shortest walks to the sea a house on this coast offers, and the plots there are the tightest of all, because every metre of them was divided when the position was already famous.
Behind the avenue, towards the hill
The body of the house market: quiet lanes of walled plots a few hundred metres inland, with pavements, parked cars and residents who are there in January. Walking distance to the quay runs from five minutes to twenty, and the price follows it closely. Each street inland takes a recognisable slice off the figure. The flats in the same quarter, several times as many of them, are apartments in Puerto Banús.
And the edge where the district becomes the valley
Further back the lanes start to climb and the plots open out, and within a few hundred metres the walled town plot has turned into a hillside garden with a view over the roofs. Five minutes inland the plots double and the rate per metre halves, which is the trade every buyer on this page eventually weighs: houses in Nueva Andalucía is the deepest house market in the region, and houses in Guadalmina Baja the one with the lawns. Every house in the municipality sits on houses in Marbella, this is a small market that trades a handful of times a year and much of it quietly, so our property alarm watches it; our agents in Estepona have the papers for a particular house in hand before a viewing trip, the district together is property for sale in Puerto Banús, and letting one is on rental services.
Questions about houses for sale in Puerto Banús
Why are the houses for sale in Puerto Banús the dearest per square metre on the coast?
Because what the houses for sale in Puerto Banús are priced on is the walk rather than the land. Two thirds of this page records a position close to the port, two thirds close to town and a third beachside, and no other house market on this coast puts a marina, a beach, a high street and several hundred restaurants inside a walk of the front door. Land can be bought ten minutes inland at a fraction of the price; this proximity exists in one place. The dearest house here is not the biggest — its rate per square metre is steeper than any house on this coast. See pure luxury.
Why are the plots so small?
Because valuable land gets divided small, and the houses for sale in Puerto Banús stand on the most valuable land on this coast. When the port was built in the nineteen-sixties the ground around it became the most valuable on the coast overnight, and a smaller parcel still sold while a larger one wasted the position. The result is villas on plots that would be thought modest in the districts west of here. The houses compensate by going up rather than out — interiors average well above three hundred square metres over several levels — and the terrace does much of the work the garden does elsewhere. For big plots, see houses in Guadalmina Baja.
What kinds of house are the houses for sale in Puerto Banús?
Four kinds in a very small market, which is unusual. Just over half are detached villas on compact plots. A substantial group is semi-detached — proportionally more than almost any house market we cover, and the sensible way into the district: own front door, own garden, one shared wall, a price well below the detached houses around it. A handful are townhouses, and the cheapest of those is the quiet value position in the district. There is even the occasional bungalow, a form that barely exists anywhere else on this coast. See semi-detached houses in Marbella.
Is there anything to renovate among the houses for sale in Puerto Banús?
No. The houses for sale in Puerto Banús describe themselves as excellent or good almost without exception, and a requirement to renovate hardly ever appears — which for a market of this age is unusual. Nothing here is cheap enough to neglect: at these values a house is maintained and usually refurbished at least once, and an owner who stops spending sells. The cost is that there is no way to buy in below the market and add value; the benefit is that a house looked after continuously holds no unpleasant surprises. See houses in Marbella.
Is it noisy?
In August, yes — and this is the honest caveat about the whole district. The port in high summer is loud, busy and lit until very late, and the surrounding streets carry traffic at hours a residential district would not. Several houses on this page are far enough back to be unaffected and several are not, and no listing field will tell you which. Two streets inland is the difference between a loud August and a quiet one, and the other ten months are quiet throughout. The flats in the same streets, for comparison, are apartments in Puerto Banús.
