Area guide · The marina and the streets around it
Property for Sale in Puerto Banús
A harbour authorised in 1967 and opened in May 1970, built as an Andalusian village rather than a wall of towers. What that decision left behind, and what it is like to own a home on it.
in Puerto Banús today
This is not a villa address
of sheltered water
years after the order to build
The place
A village built around a harbour, not a harbour with a village added
Puerto Banús is a working marina with a neighbourhood built around it. Nine hundred and fifteen berths sit in fifteen hectares of sheltered water, the quays run three sides of that water, and the apartment blocks step back towards the coast road. There is a beach on each side of the harbour mouth.
It is the most looked at address on this coast and the least accurately described, because almost everything written about it describes one evening in August. What a buyer needs is the other eleven months, and those are a dense, low rise, walkable place where the car can stay where it is for days.
The stock is different too. This is an address of apartments and penthouses rather than villas on plots, and the Catastro dates the blocks around the water between 1965 and 2002. Nothing is left between the sea and the motorway, so what you buy into is finished.
We are not selling you a view of the boats. We are here to help you buy the right flat in the right block, with the community accounts read and the legal and urbanistic homework done before you sign.
Puerto Banús from the air, La Concha behind. Low, white and arcaded, because in 1967 somebody argued against towers and won.
Where exactly it is
Halfway between Guadalmina and the Golden Mile
The coast read west to east, with the harbour in the middle. Puerto Banús sits almost exactly halfway between Guadalmina and the middle of the Golden Mile, with San Pedro de Alcántara the next town west, Nueva Andalucía immediately inland behind the coast road, and Puente Romano the first landmark east.
- 1Puerto BanúsThe harbour itself, and the blocks around the water
- 2Nueva AndalucíaDirectly inland, behind the A-7, sharing the postcode
- 3The Golden MileThe boulevard east, towards Marbella
- 4Puente RomanoHotel, tennis club and the Plaza, the first landmark east
- 5San Pedro de AlcántaraThe next town west, and a working one
- 6GuadalminaFurther west again, golf and low density
Orthophoto PNOA © Instituto Geográfico Nacional de España. Rotated so the area reads across the frame; the north mark keeps it honest. Pins mark the centre of each place, not a boundary.
There was nothing here
An unbroken shoreline, and then a harbour
The same stretch of coast, flown twice, seventy years apart. In 1956 the shoreline runs unbroken between the two river mouths. The harbour is the one thing here that was not there at all.
Nothing was added to these frames and nothing was moved. The harbour is the one thing on this stretch of coast that was not there at all. Historic and current imagery © Instituto Geográfico Nacional de España, both rendered through one frame at one scale.
How it came to be
Filed as Puerto Ángel, opened as an Andalusian village
The port did not begin with the name it carries. The regional archive in Málaga holds the original file under the title puerto turístico de Andalucía la Nueva, Puerto Ángel, and notes that the name was later replaced by the promoter’s. The concession came from the Jefatura de Costas between 1964 and 1966, the Ministry of Public Works signed the order authorising construction in Madrid on 12 September 1967, and the work was carried out by a Spanish company in partnership with a marine contractor from Nice.
José Banús Masdeu was already at work on the valley behind, building it as Nueva Andalucía, and the archive holds a 1970 site plan showing the urbanisation and the harbour drawn as one thing. The port was the valley’s front door rather than a later addition to it, which is why the two still trade as one market and share a postcode.
The design decision is the one that still governs the place. Banús brought in Noldi Schreck, an architect who had worked on Beverly Hills and had already built at the Marbella Club, and Schreck argued for a Mediterranean village in Andalusian style instead of a line of towers on the water. Low white buildings, arcades, and a quayside you can walk from end to end. Plenty of what came afterwards on this coast went higher, and that is the comparison which has aged worst.
It opened in May 1970, and later the same year Banús held a party for seventeen hundred people. The guest list is on the record: the then Prince and Princess of Spain, Prince Rainier and Grace of Monaco, Roman Polanski, and a young Julio Iglesias hired to sing. Fifty years on, Andalusia’s public broadcaster still called it one of the most important marinas in the world.
The port village and the marina. The arcades and the low roofline are the 1967 design decision, still doing its job.
In fifteen hectares of sheltered water, for boats up to fifty metres, on the marina’s own published figures.
The date of the ministerial order authorising construction, held in the regional archive.
Living here
The address where you can stop driving
The strongest argument for Puerto Banús is the one nobody puts in the photographs: you can put the car away. The shops, the supermarkets, the restaurants and the water are inside a short walk of almost every block around the harbour. On the hillsides behind, every errand is a drive. Here most are not.
The coastal path is continuous through the port, and it is worth knowing how. The regional route runs down the western quay, around the head of the harbour and back up the eastern one, so walkers go through the marina rather than past it. East it crosses the Río Verde on a footbridge and carries on into Marbella; west it crosses the Guadaiza to San Pedro, a link finished in March 2011.
There is a beach on each side of the harbour mouth and the council catalogues them separately: Nueva Andalucía to the west at Avenida de Lola Flores, and Puerto Banús to the east at Avenida de las Naciones Unidas, the one usually called Levante. One detail gets muddled constantly. For 2026 the marina holds a Blue Flag and the beach on its eastern side does not, having held one in 2025. Two separate awards, and not interchangeable.
The coast road at the door is the A-7, the free dual carriageway that used to be the N-340. The AP-7 toll road is a different road, inland, with no Puerto Banús junction: the nearest accesses are San Pedro de Alcántara west and Marbella east. There is no train to Marbella. Málaga airport is roughly fifty minutes east in ordinary traffic.
The harbour at dusk. The season is longer down here than it is on the hillsides, and so are the evenings.
Schools
Aloha College is up the valley in Nueva Andalucía, a few minutes by car; Swans International and the British International School of Marbella are on the Golden Mile hillside, about ten minutes east.
Healthcare
Helicópteros Sanitarios has run its 24 hour home doctor service and its hospital from Puerto Banús since it was founded in 1988. Quirónsalud Marbella, Hospital Ochoa and HC Marbella are a short drive east.
Getting about
The A-7 at the door, no AP-7 junction here, no train to Marbella, roughly fifty minutes to the airport. Inside the neighbourhood, a car is mostly optional.
The beaches
Nueva Andalucía west and Puerto Banús-Levante east, one on each side of the harbour mouth, with the boardwalk running through the marina between them.
What things cost
What is asked, and what was paid
Two numbers both get called “the price” here, and they are kept apart. Registered sale prices are only published by postcode, and 29660 covers Puerto Banús together with the whole of Nueva Andalucía behind it, so the deed figure below is a shared one and reads lower than the port’s own frontage would alone. The asking prices are Puerto Banús’s own.
Asking prices, per square metre
The bar is the middle half of what is being asked for each type in Puerto Banús right now, from the cheapest quarter to the dearest. The number in the row is the typical figure. Nothing here has necessarily sold at these prices; that is what the panel beside it is for.
Asking prices per built square metre, resale stock listed in Puerto Banús, 737 properties in total, as at 8 August 2026. From our own records.
What buyers actually paid
Registered sale prices are only published by postcode, and postcode 29660 covers Puerto Banús together with Nueva Andalucía. So the deed figure below is for the whole district rather than for Puerto Banús alone. Across it, homes completed this year at a typical €4,739 per square metre, 2 per cent above Marbella as a whole. Houses went for €5,273 over an average 354 square metres, against €4,924 for a Marbella house.
Read the two panels together and the lesson is the usual one: asking prices run over standing stock, which quietly accumulates every overpriced home that never sells, while deeds count only what traded. The gap between them is mostly that selection effect, not a discount waiting to be claimed.
- Postcode 29660, all homes€4,7391,059 deeds
- Postcode 29660, apartments€4,418888 deeds
- Postcode 29660, houses€5,273171 deeds
- Marbella, all homes€4,6654,037 deeds
- Marbella, houses€4,924776 deeds
JUST Real Estate analysis of registered deed prices, Portal Estadístico del Notariado, year to date, captured 15 August 2026. Postcode 29660 covers Puerto Banús together with Nueva Andalucía. Prices are moving: the official house price index for Andalucía rose 4.1 per cent in the year to 2025 Q4 (INE); the index is not published below regional level.
What you can buy
The stock that actually exists here
for sale in Puerto Banús
62% of the stock
15% of the stock
9% of the stock
No official body publishes what is available to buy, only what has already sold, so this part comes from our own intelligence. Through our network memberships we see every resale property listed through an agency on this coast, which means we know both what is genuinely on the market in Puerto Banús and where the same home is being advertised more than once. This covers resale stock only, not new construction sold directly by developers.
The shape of what is for sale tells you what the address is. This is an apartment and penthouse market first, with a few houses and townhouses and effectively no land, because nothing is left to build on between the water and the coast road. Add the commercial units on the quays, a category almost no other area here carries in quantity, and you have somewhere that trades more like a small town centre than a residential urbanisation.
- Apartments45662% of listings
- Penthouses10915% of listings
- Houses and villas639% of listings
- Townhouses152% of listings
Resale stock listed in Puerto Banús as at 8 August 2026, from our own records. Treat it as accurate to within five to ten per cent: a few near identical apartments in the same building are not always recognised as the same home when the sources are brought together.
Asking prices and supply as at 8 August 2026 · deed prices captured 15 August 2026 · refreshed each week
What it costs to own
The figure nobody official publishes
Every buyer eventually asks what a home here costs to hold, and no public body answers it. We can, because we record it. Across the Puerto Banús listings that publish their running costs, the median annual property tax, the IBI, is €1,572 and the median community charge €3,480. Together, €5,052 a year before utilities.
The community charge is the larger half, and that is the thing to understand before you make an offer. You are buying into a block, not onto a plot, and the block carries lifts, gardens, pools, porters and often direct frontage onto a beach or a quay. Nueva Andalucía behind runs at €4,400 a year on the same measure, and San Pedro de Alcántara at €2,494. The Golden Mile, where the plots are larger and the tax bill follows the land, runs at €6,967.
None of that is a reason to hesitate. It is a reason to read the community accounts before you sign rather than after, and to have the number in front of you when a seller’s agent tells you the fees are modest.
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Lifts, gardens, pools and porters. This is what the community charge is buying. From our own records, 388 listings publishing running costs, as at 8 August 2026.
Puerto Banús compared to nearby areas
The neighbours, in order
Puerto Banús trades against three different things: the valley behind it, the beachfront strip east of it, and the working town west. Asking prices put them in an order most local buyers would recognise, and the running costs explain why each sits where it does.
| Address | Typical asking, per m² | Listed | Running costs, per year | Character |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Banús | €8,704 | 63 | €5,052 | The harbour and the blocks around it, apartments and penthouses |
| Nueva Andalucía | €8,246 | 1542 | €4,400 | Inland behind the coast road, golf valley, mostly houses |
| The Golden Mile | €8,581 | 862 | €6,967 | The boulevard east, beachfront and hillside together |
| Puente Romano | €28,832 | 74 | €9,333 | Hotel, tennis club and the Plaza, on the sand |
| San Pedro de Alcántara | €5,464 | 109 | €2,494 | A working town with a beach, west across the Guadaiza |
Typical is the median asking price per built square metre for houses and villas listed in each area (apartments where an area has no villa stock) as at 8 August 2026; running costs are the median annual IBI plus community charge where enough listings publish them. From our own records.
Read the table carefully, because Puerto Banús sells apartments and most of its neighbours sell houses, and the two do not measure the same way per square metre. What matters more is how you intend to use the place. If the car is going to stay parked, this is the address. If not, one of the others probably is, and that is a conversation rather than a table.
Wider context: our guide to Marbella, area by area, and the Marbella property market data behind every figure on this page.
Who buys here
Three buyers, and what Puerto Banús gives each of them
The lock up and leave.
This is what the address is built for. A flat, a lift, a concierge and everything you need inside a walk of the front door, so the place looks after itself between visits and no garden is waiting for you when you land.
The home used often.
Short flights, a door that locks behind you, and a neighbourhood open in January as well as August. People who use a place six or eight times a year tend to end up down here rather than up a hill, because nothing about the visit needs planning.
The long hold.
The port is finished and the ground around it is spoken for. The Catastro dates the blocks between 1965 and 2002, and nothing is left between the water and the coast road, so what exists is what there will be.
Common questions
Questions we are asked about property for sale in Puerto Banús
Is Puerto Banús a good place to live all year, or only in summer?
All year, and that is its real advantage over the hillsides. The shops, the restaurants and the water are within a walk of most blocks, and enough stays open through the winter that daily life does not require a car. What changes between February and August is how busy the quays are.
How many berths does Puerto Banús have?
915, in fifteen hectares of sheltered water, for vessels up to fifty metres, on the marina’s own published figures. A berth is a separate arrangement from a home and does not come with an apartment unless the sale specifically includes it, which is worth confirming in writing.
What type of property for sale in Puerto Banús is most common?
Apartments, by a wide margin. Of the 737 resale properties currently listed here, 456 are apartments and 109 are penthouses, with only 63 houses and 15 townhouses. Anyone looking for a house on a plot should be looking in Nueva Andalucía behind it.
What does it cost to run a home in Puerto Banús?
Across the listings that publish their running costs, the median annual IBI is €1,572 and the median community charge €3,480, together €5,052 a year. The charge is the larger half, because you buy into a block with lifts, gardens, pools and porters. No official body publishes this figure. It comes from our own records.
Does Puerto Banús have a Blue Flag beach?
Not for 2026. The marina holds a Blue Flag for 2026, awarded by ADEAC, while the beach on its eastern side, Puerto Banús-Levante, held one in 2025 and does not this season. The two awards are separate and are often reported as one. Marbella holds eight beach flags and two marina flags for 2026.
When was Puerto Banús built, and by whom?
The Ministry of Public Works authorised construction on 12 September 1967, after a coastal concession granted between 1964 and 1966, and the port opened in May 1970. It was promoted by José Banús Masdeu, who was building Nueva Andalucía behind it at the same time, and designed by Noldi Schreck as an Andalusian village rather than a line of towers. The original file names it Puerto Ángel.
For sale now
Current property for sale in Puerto Banús
What is for sale in Puerto Banús on our site right now, updated as listings come on and go off. For more detail on any home, or to arrange a viewing, get in touch with the team.
Sea Views apartment in Puerto Banus
- 1 Bed
- 1 Bath
- Interior: 85 m²
Elegant Penthouse in the Heart of Puerto Banús
- 3 beds
- 3 baths
- Interior: 158 m²
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- 3 beds
- 3 baths
- Interior: 115 m²
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- 2 baths
- Interior: 132 m²
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- 9 beds
- 9 baths
- Plot: 3,082 m²
- Interior: 1,684 m²
Modern Luxury Villa Near Coast
- 5 beds
- 5 baths
- Plot: 1,494 m²
- Interior: 336 m²
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- 2 beds
- 2 baths
- Interior: 164 m²
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Luxurious duplex penthouses, Puerto Banús
- 4 beds
- 4 baths
- Interior: 970 m²
Luxurious, modern apartment in Puerto Banús.
- 5 beds
- 4 baths
- Interior: 296 m²
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Apartment | La Herradura | Marbella
- 2 beds
- 2 baths
- Interior: 124 m²
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A stunning modern apartment sporting sea views within the exclusive enclave of the Puente Romano Resort on the Marbella Golden Mile.
- 3 beds
- 3 baths
- Interior: 138 m²
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- 3 beds
- 3 baths
- Interior: 118 m²
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The Marbella Buyers Guide
Everything a buyer needs before the first viewing in Puerto Banús or anywhere else on the coast: the purchase process step by step, the taxes and fees, the checks that decide whether a property is sound, and how the market has actually been behaving.
- ProcessReservation, private contract, completion at the notary, and the timings between them.
- CostsTransfer tax, VAT on new build, notary, registry and legal fees, worked through on a real price.
- ChecksCadastre, land registry, planning status, community accounts and running costs.
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Puerto Banús, Nueva Andalucía and the Golden Mile sit within minutes of each other and suit different lives. Tell us what the days should look like, and we will send you the blocks that deliver it, with the honest drawbacks of each and the running costs in front of you before you view.
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