Apartment in Estepona

A ground floor apartment that lives at garden level, set at the quiet back of an established beachside community on the New Golden Mile, opening through full height glass onto its own planted terrace and lawn.

Menara Beach was completed in 2001 on the beach side of the coast road between Estepona and Marbella, where the older beachfront schemes were laid out before the land behind them filled in. The architecture is credited to Melvin Villarroel, whose low, white, garden centred idiom shaped much of what the Costa del Sol still builds today, and the scheme follows it closely, with the blocks kept to a modest height and stepped so that the planting, not the buildings, is what you see from the paths. There are two large outdoor pools, a heated indoor pool for the winter months, a gymnasium and a sauna, and the community is gated with security around the clock. The community has its own direct access to the sand, a walk of a few minutes through the gardens from this part of the scheme.

The Costa del Sol stretches from Nerja to Sotogrande, with Marbella as its residential heart. The combination of 320 days of sun, international schools and good air connections via Málaga makes it the most established region for Northern European buyers. Prices are more stable than on other costas and the market is transparent.