Property for sale in San Pedro de Alcántara

138 properties for sale in San Pedro de Alcántara · € 183,333 to € 5,850,000 · median € 5,061/m²

San Pedro de Alcántara is a town, not an urbanisation, and on this coast that distinction is worth money. It was founded in the 1860s around sugar cane, it has a church square, a weekly market, schools, a health centre and streets that are busy in February as well as in August — and it sits between Puerto Banús and Guadalmina, five minutes from one and two from the other. For a buyer the practical consequence is simple: you get town life at a price per square metre below the Marbella average, and the two things almost never come together.

What property for sale in San Pedro de Alcántara actually is

A full spread, which is rare. Apartments make up the largest share — in blocks around the centre, in gated schemes towards the beach and in newer developments on the edges. Villas sit mostly on the quieter streets and in the urbanisations that ring the town. Townhouses are the third group and the one most worth knowing about here, and plots still appear occasionally, which almost no other address this close to Puerto Banús can say.

Where the prices sit

Apartments run at 4,973 € per square metre across 64 comparable listings and houses at 5,116 € across 44, against 6,000 € and 5,247 € for Marbella as a whole. Both sit below the municipal figures, and the gap to Puerto Banús five minutes east is the largest short-distance price difference on this part of the coast.

Where the value sits

Townhouses, at 4,159 € per square metre — a long way below the district's own apartments and less than two thirds of what a detached villa costs here. They buy a private garden, a garage and a walk into town, and they are the stock that most buyers from outside the area never think to look at.

The boulevard

The through road that used to cut the town in half now runs in a tunnel, and what sits on top of it is a long landscaped boulevard between the centre and the beach. That single piece of engineering changed the district: the walk from the square to the sand is now a walk rather than a road crossing, and the streets either side of it have been revalued accordingly. It is also why the promenade from here to Puerto Banús is one of the most used stretches of the entire coast.

Who buys here

Families and permanent residents more than anywhere else in this municipality — schools, a health centre and supermarkets that stay open in winter make the difference. Then buyers who want Puerto Banús nearby without paying for it. And investors looking at long lets rather than holiday lets, because a town with a working population rents all year, which a marina does not.

Getting around

Puerto Banús is five minutes east, Marbella town fifteen, Estepona twenty-five. The A-7 runs below the boulevard and the AP-7 above the town; Málaga airport is roughly fifty minutes and Gibraltar around an hour. Inside San Pedro you can live without a car — which, on this coast, is a sentence that applies to perhaps three addresses in total.

What to check before you buy here

Four things. Which side of the boulevard you are on, because the beach side and the town side are two different markets at two different prices. The age of the building: the centre holds stock from the 1960s onwards, and a block from that period carries different bills from one finished last year — ask for the community accounts and the minutes of the last two general meetings. Noise and parking in the streets around the square, which are busy by day and quiet by night, but rarely both. And on a plot, what the plan actually permits, in a lawyer's hands before you pay for the land.

Where to go from here

By type across Marbella we list apartments in Marbella, houses and villas, townhouses and plots. The neighbouring districts are Puerto Banús east, far dearer, and Nueva Andalucía inland. If nothing here fits today, our property alarm mails you when it does.

What is for sale in San Pedro de Alcántara right now

Our listings for San Pedro de Alcántara currently hold 138 properties: 83 apartments, 47 houses and 8 plots. The typical home here is built over 145 m² with 1 to 7 bedrooms.

Type	For sale	Price from	Price to	Typical size
Apartment	83	€ 183,333	€ 1,995,000	113 m²
House	47	€ 475,000	€ 5,850,000	270 m²
Plot	8	€ 243,000	€ 3,235,000	700 m²

By property type that breaks down into 49 middle floor apartments, 26 detached villas, 14 townhouses, 13 penthouses, 9 ground floor apartments, 7 semi-detached houses, 6 residential plots and 6 penthouse duplexes.

What property costs in San Pedro de Alcántara

The median asking price in San Pedro de Alcántara is € 799,500, the range runs from € 183,333 to € 5,850,000. Per square metre that is € 5,061 — in line with the wider San-pedro area.

By budget: 5 under € 300,000, 23 between € 300,000 and € 500,000, 32 between € 500,000 and € 750,000, 23 between € 750,000 and € 1,000,000, 38 between € 1,000,000 and € 2,000,000 and 17 over € 2,000,000.

Condition and what comes with the property

How the 138 properties in San Pedro de Alcántara are described: 61 in excellent condition, 32 in good condition, 31 new construction, 16 recently renovated, 3 recently refurbished and 3 in fair condition.

97 of 138 have a pool, 86 of 138 have a garden, 100 of 138 have parking and 3 of 138 have a lift. Where there is land, the median plot measures 480 m².

Pools are 72 communal, 27 private, 8 heated and 6 children`s pool.

Gardens are 51 communal, 42 private, 13 landscaped and 4 easy maintenance.

Parking comes as 63 private, 53 underground, 28 garage, 17 more than one and 16 covered.

On security: 66 gated complex, 40 entry phone, 32 24 hour security, 27 alarm system and 18 electric blinds.

For heating and cooling: 93 air conditioning, 41 hot A/C, 39 cold A/C, 17 fireplace and 15 central heating.

Kitchens are 89 fully fitted, 5 partially fitted, 5 kitchen-lounge and 2 not fitted.

How the agents file them: 49 luxury, 37 investment, 35 resale, 31 holiday homes, 13 contemporary and 13 on the beachfront.

What the location is like in San Pedro de Alcántara

Every listing records how it sits in its surroundings. Across the 138 properties in San Pedro de Alcántara that reads: 104 close to the sea, 92 close to shops, 92 close to schools, 66 close to town, 60 close to golf, 51 beachside, 48 in town and 38 in a gated urbanisation. The counts overlap — one property can be both close to the sea and close to golf.

Views and orientation

What you look at from San Pedro de Alcántara: 59 garden views, 51 sea views, 37 street views, 32 urban views, 31 pool views, 28 mountain views and 23 panoramic views.

Which way they face — the figure that decides how much winter sun a terrace gets: 45 facing south, 30 facing west, 24 facing south west, 20 facing east and 9 facing south east.

Urbanisations in San Pedro de Alcántara

Our San Pedro de Alcántara listings sit in 2 named developments. The ones with the most on offer right now: San Pedro de Alcántara (28) and Alcántara del Mar (3).

Questions about property in San Pedro de Alcántara