Area guide · The golf resort above the New Golden Mile
Property for Sale in Los Flamingos
Three golf courses on the lower Benahavís slope, built in the eight years between 2001 and 2009. The ground climbs from the arroyo to the hills, and so does everything else about it.
in Los Flamingos today
for a villa here
on the town hall’s own count
on the first of the three
The place
A resort that was laid out around three golf courses
Los Flamingos is the golf resort on the first slope of Benahavís, above the coast road and the village of Cancelada, with the sea in front of it and the Serranía de Ronda behind. It is reached off the coast road rather than from any town, which is why it feels like a place of its own rather than a neighbourhood of one.
Three courses run through it. The municipal count gives them fifty four holes between them, in a municipality the town’s own tourist board says is second only to Marbella in Spain for the number of golf courses it holds. The golf is not an amenity attached to the housing here. It is the thing the housing was arranged around.
It climbs, and the climb matters. The ground runs from about thirty metres by the water at the bottom of the first course to about a hundred and seventy on the top shoulder, and the two ends are not the same purchase. Most of the disappointment here comes from buyers who priced the view and viewed the fairway, or the other way about.
We are not selling you a resort. We are here to help you buy the right house inside it, with the parcel identified on the official register and the homework done before you sign.
Los Flamingos from the slope, the sea beyond. The open green through the middle is why the houses sit where they do.
Where exactly it is
Up the slope, from the coast road to the hills
The resort read the way it is driven, from the coast at Cancelada up towards the Serranía rather than along the shore. Los Flamingos is the ground between the arroyo on the west and the El Paraíso hillside on the east, wholly inside Benahavís although the coast below it is Estepona.
- 1Los FlamingosThe resort itself, three courses through the middle
- 2La AlqueríaThe next hillside north east, same municipality
- 3CanceladaThe working village at the foot of the slope, in Estepona
- 4El ParaísoThe older golf neighbourhood immediately east
- 5Benahavís villageYour own town hall, about a quarter of an hour up the road
- 6La QuintaThe other Benahavís golf valley, twenty minutes east
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
Farmland on the arroyo, then fifty four holes
The same frame of hillside, flown twice, seventy years apart. There is no golf in the 1956 frame: the Catastro dates the works on the first of the three courses to 2001 and on the last to 2009.
Nothing was added to these frames and nothing was moved. All that changes is how much of the slope between the arroyo and the hills is spoken for. Historic and current imagery © Instituto Geográfico Nacional de España, both rendered through one frame at one scale.
How it came to be
An old Benahavís name, and three courses in eight years
Benahavís sits between the sierra and the sea, and it was fortified long before it was built on. The town hall’s own record describes a set of watchtowers of Andalusí origin, raised between the tenth and the thirteenth centuries to protect the Castillo de Montemayor, a caliphal fortress of the tenth century, with several of those towers still carried on the municipal coat of arms. Leonera, Daidín, Campanillas, Tramores and Esteril are the ones the ayuntamiento names.
Tramores is the name that matters on this hillside, because one of the three courses carries it. In the town hall’s account it was an independent fortified settlement documented from the fifteenth century, cited in the books of survey and division after the Christian conquest alongside Benahavís, Daidín and Montemayor, and counted through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a village of equal legal standing with them. It was progressively abandoned in the eighteenth century and recorded as ruins in the nineteenth. The tower itself stands inland on private ground above the Guadalmina dam, so it is the name that is shared here and not the site.
The golf arrived at the very start of this century. The Catastro records the first course as a parcel of ninety thousand square metres in sports use, dated 2001, with the greens, tees, fairways and bunkers itemised on the register. The town hall describes what was built there: eighteen holes at par seventy one to a design by Antonio Garrido, crossed by the Arroyo del Taraje, which ends in a reservoir that closes the course at the first and the tenth. It says every hole is defined by its trees. Within a few years the course had twice been chosen for the European Seniors Match Play Championship.
Then it doubled, quickly. Alferini opened in 2007, one of the few par seventy threes on this coast, designed by Cristóbal Guerrero with four lakes in play and a fourteenth whose green is entirely ringed by water. The Catastro dates the third parcel, Tramores, to 2009. Eight years took this slope from farmland to fifty four holes, and in November 2022 the Ladies European Tour closed its season on Alferini, Caroline Hedwall winning the Andalucía Costa del Sol Open de España in a play-off.
A villa on the ground above the courses. The higher you go, the more of the sea you see and the less you walk.
Three courses inside one resort, on the municipal count of Benahavís golf.
The Catastro’s years for the works on the first and the last of the three.
Living here
A resort that stays open in February
The school run goes down to the coast road and then a few minutes either way. Colegio San José, a private bilingual school running from Infant through to the International Baccalaureate Diploma, has campuses at Estepona in one direction and Guadalmina in the other. Laude San Pedro International College, taking children from two and a half to eighteen, and Aloha College Marbella, founded in 1982 and among the first schools in Spain to offer the International Baccalaureate, are both about twenty minutes east. Benahavís runs its own primary school, the Colegio Público Daidín, up in the village.
Healthcare comes from three directions, which is unusual and useful. Benahavís runs its own health centre on Avenida Andalucía in the village, because this is your municipality rather than Estepona’s or Marbella’s. The Hospital de Alta Resolución de Estepona, a Servicio Andaluz de Salud centre working to the single visit model, has run a 24 hour emergency unit since July 2022 and is the nearest hospital. The private hospitals people actually use are east towards Marbella, and Helicópteros Sanitarios has run a 24 hour home doctor and ambulance service out of Puerto Banús since 1988.
Everything is a short drive and almost none of it is a walk. Cancelada and the beach below are about three and a half kilometres, so under ten minutes. San Pedro is about eleven kilometres and Puerto Banús about fourteen, both around twenty minutes. Benahavís village is nine kilometres up the road and Estepona about the same distance west. Gibraltar is roughly an hour and Málaga airport a little over one. There is no train, so a car is part of life here.
What the resort gives you that the coast below does not is height and quiet with golf in the middle of it. The ground climbs from about thirty metres at the bottom of the first course to about a hundred and seventy on the eastern shoulder, and that climb is the thing to understand before you view. Down by the water you are on the fairway and in the trees. Up on the shoulder you are looking over the whole of it to the sea.
A terrace on the slope at dusk. The courses keep the middle of the resort open, and that is what the houses look at.
Schools
Colegio San José at Estepona and Guadalmina, Infant to IB Diploma; Laude San Pedro and Aloha College about twenty minutes east; Benahavís runs its own primary school in the village.
Healthcare
Benahavís has its own health centre; the Hospital de Alta Resolución de Estepona has run 24 hour emergencies since July 2022; a 24 hour home doctor service works out of Puerto Banús.
Getting about
Under ten minutes to the beach at Cancelada, about twenty to San Pedro or Puerto Banús, a quarter of an hour to Benahavís village, an hour to Gibraltar. A car is part of life.
The golf
Fifty four holes across three courses inside the resort, in a municipality the town’s own tourist board says is second only to Marbella in Spain for the number of courses it holds.
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 this postcode is 29679, which covers almost the whole of Benahavís: the village, both golf valleys and the estates in the hills above them. Read the deed figure as the municipality rather than as this resort. The asking prices are Los Flamingos’s own.
Asking prices, per square metre
The bar is the middle half of what is being asked for each type in Los Flamingos 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 Los Flamingos, 252 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 29679 covers Los Flamingos together with the rest of the Benahavís hillside. So the deed figure below is for the whole district rather than for Los Flamingos alone. Across it, homes completed this year at a typical €4,529 per square metre. Houses went for €5,498 over an average 371 square metres, against €5,498 for a Benahavís 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. The full postcode picture, by property type, is on the La Quinta page.
- Postcode 29679, all homes€4,529619 deeds
- Postcode 29679, apartments€3,627457 deeds
- Postcode 29679, houses€5,498162 deeds
- Benahavís, all homes€4,529619 deeds
- Benahavís, houses€5,498162 deeds
JUST Real Estate analysis of registered deed prices, Portal Estadístico del Notariado, year to date, captured 15 August 2026. Postcode 29679 covers Los Flamingos together with the rest of the Benahavís hillside. 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 Los Flamingos
58% of the stock
19% of the stock
12% 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 Los Flamingos 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 comes up for sale says the resort is still finishing itself. The largest share by a distance is a house on its own plot, on the ground above and beside the courses, with a solid block of apartments and penthouses in the low rise buildings arranged around the golf. What is unusual for an address of this age is how much bare land is on the market: plots are the third largest category here, ahead of penthouses, which is not something you see in an estate that has run out of room. If you want to build, this is one of the few addresses on this stretch where that is still an ordinary conversation.
- Houses and villas14558% of listings
- Apartments4819% of listings
- Plots3112% of listings
- Penthouses2610% of listings
- Townhouses10% of listings
Resale stock listed in Los Flamingos 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 house here costs to hold, and no public body answers it. We can, because we record it. Across the Los Flamingos listings that publish their running costs, the median annual IBI is €1,499 and the median community charge €3,600: together €5,099 a year before utilities, staff, pool and garden.
The split is the part worth reading. The community charge does roughly seventy per cent of the work, which is what a resort of gated communities with gardens, security and shared pools costs to keep. The tax is the smaller half, levied by Benahavís rather than Estepona on the Catastro’s value for the parcel underneath, which is one more reason to establish exactly which parcel a house sits on.
€5,099 a year puts this resort at the top of its own municipality’s golf addresses and below the coast beneath it. La Quinta runs at €4,125 on the same measure and La Alquería at €4,069, while the New Golden Mile below comes in at €6,455. That is a reason to have the number in front of you before you make an offer rather than after, and to ask what the charge buys in the specific community you are viewing.
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The garden, the pool and the gate are what the community charge keeps. From our own records, 105 listings publishing running costs, as at 8 August 2026.
Los Flamingos compared to nearby areas
The resort and the addresses around it
These five run in a clean order on asking price and a different order entirely on what they cost to hold. Los Flamingos sits third on the first list and first on the second, and the gap between those two positions is the whole point of reading them together.
| Address | Typical asking, per m² | Listed | Running costs, per year | Character |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Quinta | €8,672 | 347 | €4,125 | The other Benahavís golf valley, behind Nueva Andalucía |
| La Alquería | €8,486 | 89 | €4,069 | The hillside north east, villas on larger ground |
| Los Flamingos | €7,306 | 142 | €5,099 | Three courses in one resort, still filling in |
| New Golden Mile | €5,120 | 532 | €6,455 | The coastal strip below, on the Estepona side |
| Cancelada | €3,438 | 35 | €3,859 | The working village at the foot of the slope |
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.
Los Flamingos is the one on this list that is not really a single thing. Apartments and penthouses around the golf, villas on the ground above and a genuine supply of bare plots, so one name covers three different purchases at three different prices. Which of them is right depends mostly on how many months a year you intend to be here, 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 Los Flamingos gives each of them
The year-round home.
Three courses and a clubhouse inside the gate, a public health centre in your own municipality, a school run of about twenty minutes in either direction and a working village at the bottom of the hill that keeps trading in February. The resort does not close when the season does.
The holiday home.
The beach below is about ten minutes and Puerto Banús about twenty, so the coast is close without being underneath you. For anyone who has owned on the seafront and found the summer noisy, the slope is usually the answer.
The long hold.
Fifty four holes of golf run through the middle of this resort and none of that ground is coming back for housing. What is still available is the slope around and above it, and there is a finite amount of it left.
Common questions
Questions we are asked about property for sale in Los Flamingos
Is Los Flamingos in Benahavís, Estepona or Marbella?
Benahavís, wholly. The Catastro carries Flamingos entries only in the Benahavís street register: neither Estepona’s nor Marbella’s returns any. The postcode is 29679, the Benahavís municipal one. That matters because the town hall that handles the licences and bills the IBI follows the parcel, and the coast immediately below the resort is Estepona.
How many golf courses are there at Los Flamingos?
Three, carrying fifty four holes between them on the municipal count: Flamingos, Alferini and Tramores. The Catastro dates the works on the Flamingos parcel to 2001 and on the Tramores parcel to 2009, and the Spanish golf federation gives 2007 for Alferini. Benahavís as a whole has twelve courses in eight clubs, which its own tourist board says makes it second in Spain only to Marbella.
Is Los Flamingos a gated community?
It is a resort of several separate gated communities with three golf courses running through the middle of it, rather than one single gated development. Gates, gardens, security and charges vary a good deal from one community to the next, and the villa ground above the courses is different again. Ask us about the specific community before you offer.
What type of property for sale in Los Flamingos is most common?
Houses, and by a wide margin. Of the 252 resale properties listed here, 145 are houses, 48 apartments and 26 penthouses, with 1 townhouses. The number worth noticing is 31 plots of land, which is a lot for a resort of this age and tells you it has not finished building out.
What does it cost to run a home in Los Flamingos?
Across the listings that publish their running costs, the median annual IBI is €1,499 and the median community charge €3,600, together €5,099 a year before utilities, staff, pool and garden. That is above La Quinta at €4,125 and La Alquería at €4,069, and below the New Golden Mile at €6,455. No official body publishes this figure. It comes from our own records.
Why is the same house described as Los Flamingos by one agent and something else by another?
Because the resort name is wider than the register. Checked against the Catastro in August 2026, points inside the resort return parcels filed under three different urbanisation names, Flamingos, El Paraíso and Briján, all of them in Benahavís. Nothing is wrong with that, but the name on a listing is not proof of anything, so we identify the parcel on the official register before you offer.
For sale now
Current property for sale in Los Flamingos
What is for sale in Los Flamingos 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.
5 bedroom villa for sale in Los Flamingos, Benahavis
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- 5 beds
- 5 baths
- Plot: 1,330 m²
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- 3 beds
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2 bedroom apartment for sale in Los Flamingos, Benahavis
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2 bedroom apartment for sale in Los Flamingos, Benahavis
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4 bedroom villa for sale in Los Flamingos, Benahavis
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8 bedroom villa for sale in Los Flamingos, Benahavis
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5 bedroom villa for sale in Los Flamingos, Benahavis
Live the dream in this meticulously crafted 5-bedroom contemporary masterpiece situated within the prestigious Los Flamingos gated community, Benahavis. This brand new property offers unparalleled luxury, breathtaking…
- 5 beds
- 2 baths
- Plot: 1,285 m²
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2 bedroom ground floor apartment for sale in Los Flamingos, Benahavis
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Tell us which part of the slope you want
The ground beside the fairways and the ground on the shoulder above it are two different purchases with one name on them, and there is still land here to build on, which is a third. Tell us what the days should look like, and we will send you the homes that deliver it, with the honest drawbacks of each, the parcel identified and the running costs in front of you before you view.
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