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Real de La Quinta, Benahavis
Nestled in the prestigious Real de La Quinta, Benahavis, Malaga, this newly built apartment epitomises luxury and modern living. Situated in a prime location o…
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Almost everything here is new-build or off-plan, sold development by development rather than house by house. The apartments sit in low blocks of three or four storeys spread across the resort — Olivos, Quercus, Sabinas, Romero, Enebros and the Mimosas penthouses among the names you'll come across. Most are two or three bedrooms, typically from around 130 square metres built and rising past 150 for the larger three-beds, and the terraces are the point: ground-floor homes come with private gardens, the upper floors with deep south and south-west terraces angled at the lake, the Mediterranean and La Concha beyond. Lifts, gated parking and underground storage are standard.
For apartments specifically you'd typically expect a two-bed to open in the high six figures, with larger three-beds and penthouses running comfortably into seven. The buyers are mostly international — Northern European, North American and Middle Eastern — choosing this over the beachfront for the space, the quiet and the resort plan, with its planned lake club and wellness facilities, La Quinta and Los Naranjos golf a few minutes up the road, and Puerto Banús reachable in roughly ten. As ever, we'll tell you which off-plan phases are fairly priced for what completes, and which are not.
Drive up from Puerto Banús through Nueva Andalucía, keep climbing past the original La Quinta Golf, and you arrive at Real de La Quinta, a planned resort community on the slopes of the Benahavís sierra, backing onto the Sierra de las Nieves UNESCO biosphere reserve. The centrepiece is a 35,000 m2 freshwater lake fed from the hills, with a beach club, non-motorised watersports and the El Lago Club bar and restaurant on its shore. Add a Manuel Piñero golf academy, an Angsana hotel and spa from the Banyan Tree group, and BREEAM sustainability certification, and you have a masterplanned estate rather than a single development. We sell here, we walk the plots, and on this page we'll tell you how it really lives.
This is an international, gated-community crowd. Buyers come mostly from Northern Europe, Scandinavia, the UK and Ireland, the Middle East and North America, and they fall into two broad camps: families and semi-retired couples who want space, security and mountain air with Puerto Banús a short run downhill, and investors who buy off-plan early in a phase for capital growth. Because the estate is delivered in phases, you'll find a genuine mix of full-time residents, second-home owners who come for long summers and holidays, and owners who let when they're away. It's quieter and greener than the seafront, and it suits people who actively want the hills rather than the Golden Mile. If you need walkable café life on your doorstep, this isn't it; if you want a calm base with the coast ten minutes downhill, it is.
Villas set the tone, from individually designed contemporary homes to statement architect pieces such as the Vista Lago Residences, which look out over the lake to the sea. Expect clean horizontal lines, big spans of glass, infinity pools and that pale modern Marbella palette, all set out to take the view. Alongside the villas runs a strong line of apartments: ground-floor units with private gardens and their own pools, effectively garden homes, bright first-floor flats with generous terraces, and penthouses with solariums and, in many cases, private rooftop pools. The named developments to know are Olivos, Enebros, Mimosas and Romero, each its own gated enclave with communal pools and landscaped grounds. Broadly, villas dominate, garden apartments and penthouses come next, and standard mid-floor apartments round things out, so there is a genuine ladder from a lock-up-and-leave flat to a stand-alone villa. Build quality is high across the estate, as you would expect of a BREEAM-certified resort.
Real de La Quinta sits firmly in the upper bracket, and prices reflect the views and the new-build standard. As a rough guide, apartments and penthouses typically start from around the low-to-mid one-million-euro band and rise with floor, terrace size and view; garden ground-floor units and the larger penthouses sit above standard apartments. Villas are a different conversation: contemporary homes generally run from roughly two million euros, and the headline architect villas with the best lake-and-sea aspect reach well into the high single-digit millions. Sea-view plots, for those who want to commission their own build, typically start in the low millions. These are typical ranges rather than a snapshot, and they move with phase and position. We'll always tell you when a particular unit is priced ahead of what it should fetch, and which neighbouring resale or off-plan release gives you more for the money.
Day to day, the lake is the social heart, with the beach club and El Lago Club for lunch and sundowners, plus the golf academy, tennis, padel and walking trails into the hills behind. The masterplan also brings the Banyan Tree group's Angsana hotel and spa, its first in Spain, with resort dining and wellness inside the estate. For everything else you drop down the hill: Puerto Banús is about ten minutes for the marina restaurants and shopping, San Pedro de Alcántara around fifteen for everyday Spanish town life, and Marbella town roughly twenty. The nearest beaches are about fifteen minutes away, around Puerto Banús and San Pedro. For families, the international schools are an easy run; Aloha College in Nueva Andalucía and Laude San Pedro are both around fifteen minutes, and Guadalmina's English school about twenty. Málaga airport is roughly 50 minutes on the AP-7 toll motorway, and Gibraltar airport a comparable drive the other way. You will want a car here; the estate is set in the hills and was never designed around public transport.
Because much of what comes to market in Real de La Quinta is off-plan or newly delivered, the detail matters enormously, and that is where we earn our keep. We'll talk you through which phase and which block is being released, what completion dates realistically look like, how the staged payment structure works, and exactly what the community fees cover. We walk the plots with you to check the true orientation and view, because a brochure render and an August afternoon on a south-west terrace are two different things. We compare off-plan against resale honestly, we'll always flag a unit we think is over-priced and tell you why, and we're as happy steering you to a garden apartment in Olivos or Enebros as to a lake-view villa, whichever genuinely fits how you'll live. We're independent, we're local, and we say what we'd tell a friend. If you're weighing up Real de La Quinta, drop us a line.
Most apartments at Real de La Quinta are two or three bedrooms. Built sizes generally start around 130 square metres and rise above 150 for larger three-bedroom homes, with penthouses larger again. Terraces are generous throughout — ground-floor units come with private gardens, while upper floors and penthouses have deep terraces oriented south or south-west towards the lake and sea.
Apartments and penthouses are sold within named low-rise developments across the resort rather than as standalone homes. Names you'll encounter include Olivos, Quercus, Sabinas, Romero and Enebros for apartments, with Mimosas among the penthouse releases. Each is a gated cluster of three- to four-storey blocks with communal pools, gardens, lifts and underground parking.
As a guide, two-bedroom apartments here generally open in the high six figures, while larger three-bedroom apartments and penthouses run comfortably into seven figures depending on floor, size and view. Because much of the resort is new-build or off-plan, pricing varies by development and phase, and lake- and sea-facing upper floors carry a premium over garden-level homes.
Real de La Quinta is a 200-hectare hillside resort community in the municipality of Benahavís, above Nueva Andalucía and just inland from La Quinta Golf, backing onto the Sierra de las Nieves biosphere. The nearest beaches, around Puerto Banús and San Pedro de Alcántara, are roughly fifteen minutes' drive downhill. Puerto Banús itself is about ten minutes, Marbella town around twenty.
The estate runs from apartments to large villas. Villas are the dominant type, including individually designed contemporary homes and statement architect villas with lake and sea views. Alongside them you'll find ground-floor garden apartments with private pools, first-floor apartments with big terraces, and penthouses with solariums and rooftop pools, grouped into named developments such as Olivos, Enebros, Mimosas and Romero. Sea-view plots for self-build form part of the resort as well.
As a general guide, apartments and penthouses usually start from around the low-to-mid one-million-euro band and rise with floor, terrace and view. Contemporary villas typically run from roughly two million euros, while the headline architect-designed villas with the best lake-and-sea aspect reach into the high single-digit millions. These are typical ranges that vary by phase and position, not fixed prices.
Yes. It's a gated, security-patrolled community with mountain air, pools, a lake beach club, golf academy, tennis and padel, which suits active families. The international schools are an easy drive: Aloha College in Nueva Andalucía and Laude San Pedro are both around fifteen minutes, and Guadalmina's English school roughly twenty. You will need a car, as the estate sits in the hills rather than on a bus route.
The lake is a roughly 35,000 m2 man-made freshwater lake at the centre of the resort, with a beach, non-motorised watersports and the El Lago Club bar and restaurant on its shore. The resort's masterplan also includes an Angsana hotel and spa operated by the Banyan Tree group, the group's first in Spain, with resort dining, wellness and branded residences on site.
