Area guide · The hillside below the Los Arqueros golf
Los Almendros
The hillside under the Los Arqueros golf course, on the Ronda road above San Pedro. Villas on numbered plots that were here before the fairways, and apartment communities that came with them.
in Los Almendros today
for a villa here
against the Catastro
the nearest on the boundary
The place
The hillside under the Seve course
Los Almendros is the hillside of villas and apartment communities on the west side of the Ronda road, a few minutes above San Pedro de Alcántara and directly below the Los Arqueros golf course, in the municipality of Benahavís. The estate’s road leaves the A-397 at the foot of a hairpin bend, and the hillside climbs from there towards the fairways that close it in along the top and down its western side.
The name people use for this hillside and the name on its deeds are two different things, and a buyer needs both. Agents, owners and the venta on the bend of the Ronda road all say Los Almendros, the almond trees. The Catastro calls the same ground Puerto del Almendro, the almond tree pass, and that is the name a title deed and a property tax receipt will carry.
This guide sets out what the registers say the hillside is, how long people have been building on it, what the days are like beside a golf course you do not have to belong to, and what the asking prices and the mix of homes for sale say about it today.
A terrace in Los Almendros, with the coast in the distance
Where exactly it is
Between the Ronda road and the fairways
The hillside read west to east, across the road instead of up it. Los Almendros sits on the west side of the Ronda road with the Los Arqueros course along its top and western edges. Monte Halcones is on the ridge across the road, La Quinta is in the valley beyond that ridge, and El Madroñal is further up the climb to the north.
- 1Los AlmendrosThe hillside itself, pinned at the centre of the registered estate
- 2Los ArquerosThe Seve Ballesteros course of 1991, along the top and western edges
- 3The Ronda roadThe A-397 from San Pedro, passing the eastern edge of the estate
- 4Monte HalconesThe ridge across the road, between this hillside and La Quinta
- 5La QuintaThe golf valley beyond the ridge to the east, 27 holes
- 6El MadroñalThe wooded hill of large plots further up the Ronda road
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.
Houses before the golf
A slope beside the Ronda road, a few houses, then the golf next door
The same frame of hillside was flown twice, seventy years apart, and in 1956 it shows the road climbing towards Ronda with open ground beside it. The first houses on the register were built here in the middle of the seventies, the golf arrived along the top of the frame in 1991, and most of what stands between the two was finished in the ten years after 1998.
Nothing was added to these frames and nothing was moved. The only thing that changes is how many of the plots between the road and the fairways have a house on them. Historic and current imagery © Instituto Geográfico Nacional de España, both rendered through one frame at one scale.
How it came to be
An address on the Ronda road before the golf came to it
The hillside carries three versions of one name, and each belongs to a different record. The Catastro files it as the urbanisation of Puerto del Almendro and also lists a Puerto Almendro among the scattered country property of Benahavís, the entry it keeps for farms and houses outside any town. The national gazetteer has it as Urbanización el Almendro, in the country district of Artola. Los Almendros, in the plural, is the form that stuck in conversation and on the sign of the venta beside the road.
What the register shows next is the part that sets this hillside apart from its neighbours. We read every plot that fell on a grid of points across the estate, and among the twenty one single houses that came back the oldest was built in 1975 and two more in 1977. The golf club in the La Quinta valley was founded in 1989 and the course at Los Arqueros opened in 1991, so people were living on this slope well over a decade before either set of fairways existed.
The course that Severiano Ballesteros laid out arrived on the boundary in 1991, and the same year appears on the earliest of the apartment communities in the estate. Most of what stands here now followed in the years after. Sixteen of the twenty one houses date from 1998 to 2008, and three further apartment parcels are registered to 2004, 2006 and 2007.
Building has not finished, and the register is plain about that as well. The newest two houses in the set were completed in 2019 and 2023, and twelve numbered plots among the points we read are still recorded as land with nothing on them. Half a century after the oldest house we read, Los Almendros still has room for more.
Apartment terraces in Los Almendros, seen from above
The oldest of twenty one houses read against the Catastro, sixteen years before the golf course on the boundary opened.
Numbered plots still registered as bare land among the points we read, beside houses finished in 2019 and 2023.
Living here
A few minutes above San Pedro, a few below the club
Daily life in Los Almendros runs along one road, with the town at the bottom of it and the golf at the top. San Pedro de Alcántara is a few minutes downhill for the shops and the beach, and the country club at Los Arqueros is a few minutes uphill, where the town hall’s own listing records tennis, padel and squash courts, a gym, a restaurant and a children’s playground beside the eighteen holes. A roadside venta and a pharmacy stand at the north east corner of the estate.
Families here use the same two international schools as the rest of this side of Benahavís. Laude San Pedro International College, which takes children from two and a half to eighteen, is at the foot of the Ronda road in San Pedro, and Aloha College Marbella, founded in 1982, is in Nueva Andalucía, about a quarter of an hour away.
Benahavís is your town hall, so the municipal health centre is in the village, ten to fifteen minutes over the hill, and the estate was part of the town hall’s 2025 road resurfacing plan for the urbanisations. For private care most owners turn towards the coast, where Quirónsalud Marbella and Hospital Ochoa are a short drive east, and Helicópteros Sanitarios has run a 24 hour home doctor and ambulance service from Puerto Banús since 1988.
San Pedro is under ten minutes from the house and Puerto Banús about a quarter of an hour, so dinner, the beach and the marina are all a short drive, and Málaga airport is around an hour east. The hillside climbs from about ninety metres above the sea at its lower houses to about a hundred and forty five at the top, and the ground is steep enough that very little here is a walk. There is no railway on this side of the coast, so a car is part of life in Los Almendros as it is everywhere on the Ronda road.
A terrace in Los Almendros over the rooftops
Schools
Laude San Pedro International College at the foot of the Ronda road, ages 2.5 to 18, and Aloha College Marbella in Nueva Andalucía, founded 1982, about a quarter of an hour away.
Healthcare
The Benahavís health centre in the village; Quirónsalud Marbella and Hospital Ochoa on the coast, a 24 hour home doctor service from Puerto Banús, and a pharmacy on the road above the estate.
Getting about
Under ten minutes to San Pedro, about a quarter of an hour to Puerto Banús, ten to fifteen minutes to Benahavís village and around an hour to Málaga airport.
The golf next door
Los Arqueros, the first course Severiano Ballesteros designed on this coast, along two sides of the estate, with a country club open through the winter.
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 published by postcode, and the postcode Los Almendros is filed under covers the rest of the municipality of Benahavís as well, so the deed figure belongs to the whole municipality. The asking prices are Los Almendros’s own, taken from the homes listed on this hillside, and they lead here.
Asking prices, per square metre
The bar is the middle half of what is being asked for each type in Los Almendros 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 Almendros, 36 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 Almendros together with the rest of the municipality of Benahavís. So the deed figure below is for the whole district rather than for Los Almendros alone. Across it, homes completed this year at a typical €4,529 per square metre.
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
JUST Real Estate analysis of registered deed prices, Portal Estadístico del Notariado, rolling 12 months, captured 15 August 2026. Postcode 29679 covers Los Almendros together with the rest of the municipality of Benahavís. 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 Almendros
56% of the stock
25% of the stock
11% 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 Almendros 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 to market is the reverse of what the register shows on the ground. Plot by plot, Los Almendros is a hillside of detached houses, yet more than half of everything listed here is an apartment and about a quarter is a penthouse, with only a handful of villas and building plots beside them. The apartment communities hold many homes each and supply most of the listings, while the villas come to market one at a time. A buyer looking for an apartment or a penthouse has real choice here, and a buyer looking for a house should ask us what is coming before it is advertised.
- Apartments2056% of listings
- Penthouses925% of listings
- Houses and villas411% of listings
- Plots26% of listings
- Townhouses13% of listings
Resale stock listed in Los Almendros 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
Los Almendros compared to nearby areas
The Ronda road, from the top down
Five addresses line the road from San Pedro up into the Benahavís hills, and a buyer who looks at one of them usually drives past the other four on the way. The order below is the order of the climb, read from the top, and Los Almendros is the lowest of the four Benahavís addresses on it.
| Address | Typical asking, per m² | Listed | Running costs, per year | Character |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Madroñal | €8,491 | 185 houses and villas | €6,784 | The wooded hill near the top of the climb, large plots among cork oaks |
| La Heredia | €3,125 | 43 houses and villas | too few to say | A village of lanes and a square, built whole in the eighties |
| Los Arqueros | €6,298 | 80 houses and villas | €3,458 | The Seve Ballesteros course and the communities round it |
| Los Almendros | €6,121 | 20 apartments | too few to say | Villas on numbered plots and apartment communities, below the golf |
| San Pedro de Alcántara | €5,207 | 138 apartments | €2,494 | The working town at the foot of the road |
Typical is the median asking price per built square metre for the type of home most listed in each area, named beside the count (houses and villas, or apartments), 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 Almendros is the address on this road for a buyer who wants the Benahavís hillside and a golf course on the boundary while staying only a few minutes above San Pedro. Los Arqueros, directly above, puts you round the fairways and inside the club. La Heredia gives you a village with a square, and El Madroñal gives you land and distance from everything. Here the offer is simpler, an apartment with a terrace or a house on its own plot, a few minutes from the town in one direction and the first tee in the other. Which of the five is right depends on how you mean to use the home, and that is a conversation rather than a table.
Wider context: our guide to Benahavís, area by area, and our property market data behind every figure on this page.
Who buys here
Three buyers, and what Los Almendros gives each of them
The year-round home.
Benahavís had 9,472 residents at the last official count, and this hillside has housed some of them since the seventies. San Pedro and its international school are a few minutes down the road, the country club at Los Arqueros keeps its courts, gym and restaurant open through the winter a few minutes up it, and the town hall named the estate in its 2025 road resurfacing plan alongside La Quinta and La Zagaleta.
The apartment by the golf.
Most of what comes up for sale in Los Almendros is an apartment or a penthouse in one of the communities built here between 1991 and 2007. It suits an owner who wants a terrace on the Benahavís hillside, eighteen holes by Severiano Ballesteros next door and the coast below, in a home that can be closed up between visits.
The buyer who wants to build or rebuild.
Los Almendros is one of the few established addresses on this road where the register still shows numbered plots with nothing on them, next to villas from the seventies that a new owner may want to remake. A bare plot, an older house and a villa finished in the last few years can all be found within the same few streets.
Common questions
Questions we are asked about Los Almendros
Where is Los Almendros?
Los Almendros is in the municipality of Benahavís, on the west side of the Ronda road a few minutes above San Pedro de Alcántara. The Los Arqueros golf course runs along its top and western edges, and La Quinta is in the next valley east, beyond the ridge on the far side of the road. San Pedro is under ten minutes away, Puerto Banús about a quarter of an hour and Málaga airport around an hour.
Is Los Almendros the same place as Puerto del Almendro?
The two names describe the same hillside, and which one you meet depends on who is speaking. Los Almendros is the name used in conversation, in advertising and on the venta beside the Ronda road. Puerto del Almendro is the name the Catastro gives the urbanisation, so it is the one on deeds and tax receipts, and part of the southern slope is registered under a second name, La Resina. The national gazetteer shortens it again to El Almendro.
Is Los Almendros in Marbella or Benahavís?
Every plot we checked against the Catastro is in Benahavís, although the estate is reached from San Pedro and most owners treat San Pedro and Marbella as their towns. Benahavís town hall issues the licences and bills the property tax, it included the estate in its 2025 road resurfacing plan, and its health centre and offices are in Benahavís village, ten to fifteen minutes over the hill.
What type of property for sale in Los Almendros is most common?
Apartments come first and penthouses second, which reflects the apartment communities on the hillside more than the villas around them. Of the 36 resale properties currently listed here, 20 are apartments and 9 are penthouses, with 4 houses and 2 building plots alongside them.
How old are the homes in Los Almendros?
The hillside has been built on for about fifty years, and it is still being added to. Of twenty one houses we read against the Catastro, the oldest dates from 1975, sixteen were built between 1998 and 2008 and the newest in 2023, with a typical built area close to 500 square metres. The apartment communities we read are registered to 1991, 2004, 2006 and 2007.
Is Los Almendros part of Los Arqueros?
Los Almendros is a separate urbanisation on the register, and the two share a boundary. The first and ninth holes of the Los Arqueros course run along the top of the estate and its closing holes come down the western side, and the clubhouse, with its courts, gym and restaurant, is a few minutes further up the Ronda road. The oldest houses on this hillside were standing sixteen years before the course opened in 1991.
For sale now
Current property for sale in Los Almendros
A selection of what is for sale in Los Almendros right now. Every home we are listing here, with asking prices, is on the page for property for sale in Los Almendros.
3 bedroom apartment for sale in Los Almendros, Benahavis
- 3 beds
- 2 baths
- Interior: 94 m²
3 bedroom apartment for sale in Los Almendros, Benahavis
- 3 beds
- 2 baths
- Interior: 115 m²
3 bedroom apartment for sale in Los Almendros, Benahavis
- 3 beds
- 2 baths
- Interior: 115 m²
3 bedroom apartment for sale in Los Almendros, Benahavis
- 3 beds
- 2 baths
- Interior: 94 m²
4 bedroom duplex penthouse for sale in Los Almendros, Benahavis
- 4 beds
- 3 baths
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