Area guide · The valley behind Puerto Banús
Property for Sale in Nueva Andalucía
The valley behind Puerto Banús, drawn as a single plan of nine and a half million square metres in 1964, and known ever since by a name that is on no plan at all.
in Nueva Andalucía today
for a villa here
in August 1965
Los Naranjos opened
The place
The valley everyone calls the Golf Valley
Nueva Andalucía is the valley that runs inland from Puerto Banús towards the mountains. Three championship golf courses sit on its floor, which is why almost nobody calls it by its proper name. They call it the Golf Valley.
It is unusual on this coast in that it was not assembled plot by plot. The whole of it was drawn as one thing, presented publicly in May 1964 and approved as a tourist city that year, nine and a half million square metres of farmland between the Río Verde and the Río Guadaiza. The avenues, the golf, the market and the bullring were on the drawing before any of it was built.
This guide sets out how that plan turned into a place, what the valley is like to live in rather than visit, and what the numbers say, including the running costs no official body publishes.
We are not selling you a valley. We are here to help you buy the right house in it, with the legal and urbanistic homework done before you sign.
Nueva Andalucía from the air, the sea beyond. Low rise, green between the houses, and the golf taking the floor of the valley.
Where exactly it is
Up the valley from the marina
The valley read from the sea inland rather than along the coast, because that is how it works. Puerto Banús sits at the mouth of it, the three courses run up the middle, and the ground climbs to the foot of the mountains. La Quinta is over the western ridge, in Benahavís, reached through here.
- 1Nueva AndalucíaThe valley itself, coast road to hills
- 2Puerto BanúsThe marina at the mouth of it, five minutes down
- 3Las BrisasRobert Trent Jones, 1968, the first course here
- 4AlohaJavier Arana’s last design, October 1975
- 5Los NaranjosTrent Jones again, 1977, named for the orange grove
- 6La QuintaOver the western ridge and up, in Benahavís
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 between two rivers to three championship courses
The same frame of valley, flown twice, seventy years apart. In 1956 it is field boundaries, two river courses and the tracks of a farming estate. The golf arrives between 1968 and 1977 and the shape of the place is settled.
Nothing was added to these frames and nothing was moved. What changes is how much of the valley floor 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
Nine and a half million square metres, drawn as one plan
José Banús reached this coast in 1962 and bought the land between the Río Verde and the Río Guadaiza, roughly nine million square metres of it, which the record describes simply as an agricultural zone. He had spent the fifties putting up housing on the edge of Madrid. What he proposed here was a different order of thing.
On 26 May 1964 he set the whole project out in public: a port, a hotel, a casino, an Andalusian village, a country club, a zone of lakes and villas above them, conceived as a complete city of services with wide avenues, two golf courses and a bullring. The paperwork moved at the speed of the decade. By that October the land was a Centro de Interés Turístico Nacional, and in August 1965 the name went on the national register with the area written out to the square metre: 9,585,692 of them. It went in as Andalucía la Nueva, and an order of 23 April 1969 turned it round.
The decision that shaped the valley most was a decision not to build. Banús had intended towers, enough to house something like twenty thousand comfortable families. The architect he engaged, a Swiss raised Russian called Noldi Schreck who had made his name in Beverly Hills and had just built the beach club at the Marbella Club, argued him towards a low, spread out, village style scheme instead. Everything people like about the valley today, the long low roofs and the space between them, is the residue of that argument.
Banús himself did not end well. The port took his name and the money went the other way, and when he died in 1984 the record notes that his death passed almost unnoticed.
A villa in the valley at dusk. The space between the houses is what the low rise decision of the sixties bought.
The area registered under the name Andalucía la Nueva in August 1965, written out to the square metre.
A ministerial order of 23 April 1969 turned Andalucía la Nueva into Nueva Andalucía.
Living here
Built for February as well as August
The school is the anchor. Aloha College was founded in 1982 by six teachers and a group of parents, opened with 210 pupils, and now has more than nine hundred on a 27,000 square metre campus in El Ángel, inside the valley. It was among the first schools in Spain to offer the International Baccalaureate. Forty years in one place is worth more to a family than any view.
The private healthcare is close and unusually well covered. Helicópteros Sanitarios has run a 24 hour home doctor and ambulance service from Puerto Banús since 1988, which means a doctor who comes to the house rather than a waiting room. Quirónsalud Marbella sits on Avenida Severo Ochoa by the fishing port, and Hospital Ochoa on the sea front in town.
Puerto Banús is about five minutes down the hill, San Pedro de Alcántara about ten the other way, and Marbella’s old town about fifteen. Málaga airport is around fifty minutes east and Gibraltar about an hour west. There is no train to Marbella, so a car, or a driver, is part of life here.
The week has a rhythm the beach strip does not. Saturday morning is the market on the Centro Plaza esplanade, on Avenida Manolete, ten until two, the one morning the whole valley is in the same place. The bullring above it stopped taking bullfights and became the Marbella Arena, so the biggest concerts now happen inside a brick drum designed in 1965. The rest of the week the golf clubs carry the social life.
A terrace looking down the valley to the sea. Height buys the view; the valley floor buys the golf.
Schools
Aloha College in El Ángel, founded 1982, over nine hundred pupils and an International Baccalaureate programme.
Healthcare
A 24 hour home doctor service from Puerto Banús since 1988, with Quirónsalud Marbella and Hospital Ochoa a short drive east.
Getting about
Five minutes to Banús, ten to San Pedro, fifteen to the old town, fifty to Málaga airport. A car is part of life.
Saturday market
The Centro Plaza esplanade on Avenida Manolete, ten until two, the one morning the valley gathers.
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 only, and 29660 covers Nueva Andalucía together with Puerto Banús, so the deed figure below is the two of them read as one. The asking prices are the valley’s own.
Asking prices, per square metre
The bar is the middle half of what is being asked for each type in Nueva Andalucía 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 Nueva Andalucía, 2985 properties in total, as at 8 August 2026. From our own records.
What buyers actually paid
Every figure here is a registered deed price, the amount declared in front of a notary when the sale completed, for postcode 29660. 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 Nueva Andalucía together with Puerto Banús. 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 Nueva Andalucía
52% of the stock
31% of the stock
10% 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 Nueva Andalucía 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 it tells you the valley is two places at once. Houses on their own plots are the largest single share of what is for sale, the villa country up the sides and around the fairways. Apartments and penthouses together are close behind, because the lower valley was built in low rise blocks and garden communities from the seventies on. Townhouses barely register and there is very little bare land, which is what you would expect of ground drawn once in 1965 with three golf courses on it since 1977.
- Houses and villas155652% of listings
- Apartments92131% of listings
- Penthouses29810% of listings
- Plots823% of listings
- Townhouses582% of listings
Resale stock listed in Nueva Andalucía 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 Nueva Andalucía listings that publish their running costs, the median annual IBI is €1,400 and the median community charge €3,000. Together that is €4,400 a year before utilities, staff, pool and garden.
That sits below Puerto Banús, next door on the same postcode, which runs at €5,052 a year on the same measure, and a little above La Quinta at €4,125. Most of the difference is the community charge rather than the tax. The marina apartments carry concierge, security and shared plant that a villa on its own plot up the valley does not, and the tax bill follows the plot underneath rather than the address on the gate.
It varies more inside this area than almost anywhere on the coast, because the valley holds both kinds of home. A house beside a fairway and a two bedroom flat five minutes below it are both Nueva Andalucía, and their annual figures are not in the same range. Ask for the numbers on the actual property before you make an offer.
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The garden and the pool are what you are paying to keep. From our own records, 1547 listings publishing running costs, as at 8 August 2026.
Nueva Andalucía compared to nearby areas
The valley and its neighbours, in order
Nueva Andalucía borders four very different propositions, and villa asking prices put them in the order local buyers would give you. The running costs tell you why.
| Address | Typical asking, per m² | Listed | Running costs, per year | Character |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nueva Andalucía | €8,246 | 1542 | €4,400 | The valley itself, golf on the floor and villas up the sides |
| Puerto Banús | €8,704 | 63 | €5,052 | The marina at the mouth of it, same postcode, a different life |
| La Quinta | €8,672 | 347 | €4,125 | Over the ridge and higher, in Benahavís, quieter and greener |
| Guadalmina | €6,460 | 271 | €3,577 | West across the Guadaiza, older, flatter and more residential |
| The Golden Mile | €8,581 | 862 | €6,967 | East of the Río Verde, the beach strip and the hillside above it |
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.
The useful comparison is not price, it is what the day looks like. The Golden Mile puts you on the beach and charges for it. Banús puts you in the middle of the noise. La Quinta trades ten minutes of driving for height and quiet. Nueva Andalucía behaves like a town, with the beach five minutes away rather than underfoot. Which is right depends on how you plan to use the house.
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 Nueva Andalucía gives each of them
The year-round home.
This is what the valley is best at. A school with forty years behind it, a market every Saturday, three golf clubs with real memberships, and a supermarket run you can do without joining the coast road. February works here, which is the only test that matters.
The holiday home.
Puerto Banús is five minutes down the hill and the valley is quiet when you come back up it. For anyone who has owned on the marina and found August too loud, this is usually the answer, on the same postcode.
The long hold.
The boundary was drawn once, in 1965, and written out to the square metre. The golf courses hold a great deal of the valley floor and are not going anywhere, so what is left is infill and replacement rather than expansion.
Common questions
Questions we are asked about property for sale in Nueva Andalucía
Why is Nueva Andalucía called the Golf Valley?
Because three championship courses sit on the floor of it: Las Brisas, opened in 1968 to a Robert Trent Jones design, Aloha, opened in October 1975 and the last course Javier Arana designed, and Los Naranjos, opened in 1977 and named for the orange grove it was built on. The nickname is informal, but Avenida Valle del Golf is on the official street register and the town runs a viewpoint called the Mirador del Valle del Golf.
Is Nueva Andalucía the same as Puerto Banús?
No, although they share the postcode 29660 and were drawn on the same plan by the same hand in the 1960s. Puerto Banús is the marina and the strip around it, at the mouth of the valley. Nueva Andalucía is the valley behind and above. Five minutes apart, and nothing alike.
How far is Nueva Andalucía from the beach?
About five minutes by car to the beaches either side of Puerto Banús. The valley itself has no sea frontage. It begins behind the coast road and climbs from there, which is why it is quiet and why so much of it looks back down to the water.
What type of property for sale in Nueva Andalucía is most common?
Houses and villas. Of the 2985 resale properties currently listed here, 1556 are houses, 921 are apartments and 298 are penthouses, with 58 townhouses and only 82 plots of land, which tells you how little room is left to build new.
What does it cost to run a home in Nueva Andalucía?
Across the listings that publish their running costs, the median annual IBI is €1,400 and the median community charge €3,000, together €4,400 a year before utilities and staff. Puerto Banús runs at €5,052 and La Quinta at €4,125 on the same measure. No official body publishes this. It comes from our own records.
Is there a good school in Nueva Andalucía?
Aloha College has been in the valley since 1982, when six teachers and a group of parents opened it with 210 pupils. It now has more than nine hundred on a 27,000 square metre campus in El Ángel, and was among the first schools in Spain to offer the International Baccalaureate.
For sale now
Current property for sale in Nueva Andalucía
What is for sale in Nueva Andalucía 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.
3 bedroom apartment for sale in Malambo, Nueva Andalucia
A ground floor apartment rebuilt to an exceptional standard, with the sea in front of it and Puerto Banus five minutes away on foot. Malambo is among the most settled and most sought after of the Nueva Andalucia urban…
- 3 beds
- 3 baths
- Interior: 98 m²
2 bedroom apartment for sale in Lorcrimar, Nueva Andalucia
A south facing apartment taken back to the frame and rebuilt, with a terrace that reaches every room in the place. Lorcrimar is one of the established addresses of Nueva Andalucia, a low density community of white And…
- 2 beds
- 2 baths
- Interior: 16 m²
3 bedroom apartment for sale in Nueva Andalucia, Marbella
A second floor apartment in one of Nueva Andalucia's newest addresses, finished to a standard that the Golf Valley has been waiting for. Albatros XV was completed in 2024 in La Campana, on the gentle rise that runs up…
- 3 beds
- 2 baths
- Interior: 115 m²
3 bedroom ground floor apartment for sale in Albatross Hill, Marbella
Nestled within Albatross Hill, one of Nueva Andalucia's most established gated communities in the heart of Marbella's Golf Valley, this elevated ground floor apartment occupies a coveted corner position that captures…
- 3 beds
- 3 baths
- Interior: 287 m²
3 bedroom apartment for sale in La Cerquilla, Nueva Andalucia
Set within an exclusive gated community in La Cerquilla, one of the most established residential pockets of Nueva Andalucia, this high quality apartment enjoys panoramic outlooks across the Mediterranean and the surro…
- 3 beds
- 3 baths
- Interior: 123 m²
3 bedroom ground floor apartment for sale in La Quinta Village
Located within La Quinta Village in Nueva Andalucía, this recently renovated ground floor apartment sits inside a gated community and offers sea views, a private garden and a quiet, tucked away setting just minutes fr…
- 3 beds
- 2 baths
- Plot: 149 m²
- Interior: 106 m²
5 bedroom villa for sale in Los Naranjos Hill Club, Nueva Andalucia
Set within the gated community of Los Naranjos Hill Club in the heart of Nueva Andalucía, this recently renovated villa offers five bedrooms and five bathrooms across a layout suited equally to year round living and h…
- 5 beds
- 5 baths
- Plot: 920 m²
- Interior: 320 m²
Plot for sale in Nueva Andalucia, Marbella
Villa Los Arcos is a licensed plot with a fully resolved villa project in Nueva Andalucia, offering a buyer the rare middle ground between an empty site and somebody else's finished house. The plot extends to 2,273 sq…
- 6 beds
- 6 baths
- Plot: 2,273 m²
- Interior: 1,038 m²
5 bedroom penthouse for sale in Los Arrayanes, Nueva Andalucia
Feroz is a duplex penthouse in Los Arrayanes, a gated community in the heart of Nueva Andalucia, and it is a rare thing on this coast, an apartment with the scale, privacy and amenity programme of a substantial villa.…
- 5 beds
- 5 baths
- Interior: 660 m²
4 bedroom villa for sale in La Cerquilla, Nueva Andalucia
Cerquilla 57A is one of a pair of newly completed villas by Jacobsen Arquitectura in La Cerquilla, the quiet, gated pocket of Nueva Andalucia that borders the fairways of the Golf Valley. The villa offers 488 square m…
- 4 beds
- 6 baths
- Plot: 890 m²
- Interior: 488 m²
3 bedroom duplex penthouse for sale in Aloha Hill Club, Marbella
Discover elevated living in this exceptional south-facing duplex penthouse, located in the prestigious gated community of Aloha Hill Club, in the heart of Nueva Andalucía. Beautifully designed with bespoke finishes an…
- 3 beds
- 3 baths
- Interior: 129 m²
4 bedroom villa for sale in Las Brisas, Nueva Andalucia
Nestled in the prestigious enclave of Las Brisas, Nueva Andalucía, this beautifully renovated four-bedroom villa offers an exceptional blend of contemporary design, comfort, and privacy. Set on a landscaped 950 m² plo…
- 4 beds
- 4 baths
- Plot: 950 m²
- Interior: 328 m²
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The Marbella Buyers Guide
Everything a buyer needs before the first viewing in Nueva Andalucía 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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Talk to us
Tell us how you want to live in the valley
Nueva Andalucía holds villa country beside the fairways and garden apartments five minutes below it, and the two suit very different people. Tell us what the days should look like, and we will send you the streets that deliver it, with the honest drawbacks of each and the running costs in front of you.
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JUST Real Estate was founded in Marbella in 2015. We have 25 years of experience in this market.
