Area guide · Round Aloha Golf Club, at the head of the golf valley
Aloha
The neighbourhood round Aloha Golf Club at the head of the Nueva Andalucía valley. The last course Javier Arana designed, a school founded by its own teachers and parents, and streets named after the men who sailed west.
in Aloha today
for a villa here
last course opened
with 210 pupils
The place
The neighbourhood round Javier Arana’s last course
Aloha is the neighbourhood that grew up round Aloha Golf Club, at the head of the Nueva Andalucía valley behind Puerto Banús. The course takes the middle of it, Aloha Pueblo and its squares sit on the western edge, Aloha College is a few minutes to the east, and the houses and garden communities that carry the name run round the fairways between them.
Three golf clubs share this valley and people often speak of them in one breath, although they are different places to live. Las Brisas, a kilometre to the south west, is almost entirely villas. Los Naranjos, further west again, is much the same. Aloha is the one with a school, a small centre of its own and a real spread of homes, from a house on the course to an apartment in shared gardens.
This guide sets out how the club and the streets round it came to be, what daily life at the top of the valley is actually like, and what the numbers say, including the running costs that no official body publishes and that we hold ourselves.
Aloha Golf Club through the pines, with La Concha behind
Where exactly it is
At the head of the golf valley
Aloha read west to east across the top of the valley, with north at the top. The course sits in the middle of the frame with Aloha Pueblo on its western edge and Aloha College about five hundred metres to the east. Las Brisas is roughly a kilometre to the south west and Los Naranjos a little over a kilometre and a half to the west, and the reservoir of the old El Ángel estate lies in the hills above. Puerto Banús is about three kilometres south, off the bottom of the frame.
- 1AlohaPinned on Aloha Golf Club, the course the neighbourhood is built round
- 2Aloha PuebloThe squares, restaurants and 133 homes on the western edge of the course
- 3Aloha CollegeThe British international school on Calle Escuelas El Ángel, founded 1982
- 4Las BrisasThe first course in the valley, 1968, and the villa estate round it
- 5Los NaranjosThe third course, 1977, on the western side of the valley
- 6Embalse Nuevo del ÁngelThe reservoir of the old farming estate, in the hills above the course
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.
Before the first tee
Farmland at the head of the valley, then a course with streets round it
The same frame of ground at the head of the valley was flown twice, seventy years apart. In 1956 it is farmland, with field boundaries and tracks and nothing a golfer would recognise. The course opens in 1975, the houses round it carry 1983 in the register, and Aloha Pueblo is finished by 1989.
Nothing was added to these frames and nothing was moved. What changes is how much of the ground round the course 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
A course finished in 1975, and the streets that followed it
Javier Arana was the best known Spanish course designer of his generation, the man behind El Saler in Valencia and El Prat in Barcelona, and Aloha was the last course he drew. The club’s own history records that he died in 1975, just as it was being completed. On 25 October that year the president of the Royal Andalusian Golf Federation, Ángel de la Riva, struck the first drive from the first tee, and the valley had its second course, seven years after Las Brisas and two before Los Naranjos.
For its first years the club was run by a bank, Banco de Bilbao, and the houses came after the golf rather than before it. The club dates the completion of the development round the course to March 1983, and the cadastral register agrees with it to the year. Around Calle Juan Sebastián Elcano, Calle Fray Junípero Serra and Calle Hernán Cortés, and on Calle Pinta and Calle Niña at Retranca del Ángel, fifty four plots carry 1983 and no other date.
What happened next is the reason Aloha feels like a club with a neighbourhood attached rather than the other way round. When the building was finished, fifteen hundred shares in the club were issued, and twelve hundred of them were set aside for the owners of the villas, with the rest going to people who already played there. The shareholders held their first general meeting in January 1986 and elected their own president, and the club has been run by its members ever since.
Aloha Pueblo followed in the same decade and gave the place its centre. The register carries it as 133 homes on four parcels, built between 1986 and 1989 on the western side of the course, around squares where the restaurants and small businesses of the neighbourhood still are. By then Aloha College had already opened a few minutes to the east, in 1982, so within fifteen years of the first drive the course had houses, a school and a village square beside it.
A house beside the course at Aloha, where the fairways came first and the streets were drawn round them, which is why so many gardens look out over grass
The day the first drive was struck at Aloha, the last course Javier Arana designed.
Club shares set aside for the villa owners when the building round the course was finished in 1983.
Living here
A golf club with a school and a square beside it
Aloha College was founded in 1982 by six teachers and a group of parents, and it is still a not-for-profit foundation governed by a board of parent trustees. It opened with 210 pupils and now has more than nine hundred, from 57 nationalities, on a campus of 27,000 square metres on Calle Escuelas El Ángel, about five hundred metres east of the course. It teaches a British international education from age three to eighteen, with IGCSE, A Level and the International Baccalaureate Diploma, and it was among the first schools in Spain to offer the IB. For a family living on the explorers’ streets the school run is a few minutes on roads that never leave the neighbourhood.
The golf club carries more of the social life here than a clubhouse usually does, because its shares were first issued to the people who owned the villas round it. It is a members’ club with more than 29 nationalities, a par 72 of 6,235 metres from the white markers through trees and lakes, with views of La Concha and the sea. The European Tour brought the Open de Andalucía here in 2007, 2008 and 2012, the Ladies Spanish Open came in 2016 and 2019, and the Legends Tour opened its season at Aloha in both 2025 and 2026.
Aloha Pueblo is where the neighbourhood eats and meets, a village of 133 homes built between 1986 and 1989 round Plaza de Doña Elvira and Plaza del Pan, on the western edge of the course. The restaurants and small businesses are on the squares, and for a weekly shop the supermarkets are a few minutes down the valley towards the coast road. Saturday morning is the market on the Centro Plaza esplanade, about two kilometres south, which is the one morning the whole valley is in the same place.
Puerto Banús and its beaches are under ten minutes down the valley, San Pedro de Alcántara is about ten minutes west and Marbella’s old town about fifteen minutes east. Málaga airport is around fifty minutes away. Helicópteros Sanitarios has run a 24 hour home doctor service from Puerto Banús since 1988, Quirónsalud Marbella is a short drive east, and Hospital Costa del Sol, the public hospital for this coast, stands on the A-7 beyond the town. There is no train to Marbella, so a car is part of life at the top of the valley.
A terrace at Aloha looking across the valley to La Concha
Schools
Aloha College on Calle Escuelas El Ángel, founded 1982, ages three to eighteen, with IGCSE, A Level and the IB Diploma.
Healthcare
A 24 hour home doctor service from Puerto Banús since 1988, Quirónsalud Marbella a short drive east, and Hospital Costa del Sol on the A-7.
Getting about
Under ten minutes to Puerto Banús, ten to San Pedro, fifteen to the old town and about fifty to Málaga airport.
The club
Aloha Golf Club, members’ owned, par 72 by Javier Arana, with a nine hole par three course beside it.
What things cost
What is asked, and what was paid
Two numbers both get called “the price” here, and they are kept apart on this page. Registered sale prices are published by postcode only, and 29660 covers Aloha together with the rest of Nueva Andalucía and Puerto Banús, so the deed figure below is the three of them read as one. The asking prices and the running costs are Aloha’s own.
Asking prices, per square metre
The bar is the middle half of what is being asked for each type in Aloha 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 Aloha, 218 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 Aloha together with the rest of Nueva Andalucía and Puerto Banús. So the deed figure below is for the whole district rather than for Aloha 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 house in Marbella as a whole.
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 Nueva Andalucía page.
- 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, rolling 12 months, captured 15 August 2026. Postcode 29660 covers Aloha together with the rest of Nueva Andalucía and 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 Aloha
50% of the stock
27% of the stock
13% 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 Aloha 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 what sets Aloha apart from the two golf estates beside it. About half of everything listed is a house, the villas of the explorers’ streets and the plots along the fairways, and the other half is apartments, penthouses, townhouses and duplexes in the garden communities that were built round the course from the eighties on. Las Brisas and Los Naranjos are villa addresses almost from end to end, so a buyer who wants this valley and does not want a house on its own plot usually ends up here. Bare land barely appears, which is what you would expect of ground that was drawn round a golf course and finished within fifteen years of it.
- Houses and villas10850% of listings
- Apartments5827% of listings
- Penthouses2813% of listings
- Townhouses84% of listings
Resale stock listed in Aloha 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 Aloha listings that publish their running costs, the median annual property tax, the IBI, is €1,200, and the median community charge is €3,600. Together that is €4,800 a year before utilities, garden and pool.
The community charge is the larger part of that bill, and it is the reason Aloha reads differently from its neighbours. Las Brisas runs at €3,894 a year on the same measure and Los Naranjos at €3,336, both of them villa estates where the shared charges are far lighter. Nueva Andalucía as a whole comes in at €4,400 and Puerto Banús at €5,052. So many Aloha homes sit in communities with shared gardens and pools to keep up that the shared charge carries more of the figure here.
A house on Calle Pizarro and a penthouse in a garden community five minutes away are both Aloha, and their annual figures are not in the same range. Ask us for the numbers on the actual property before you make an offer, and have them in front of you when a seller’s agent tells you the fees are modest.
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From our own records, 143 listings publishing running costs, as at 8 August 2026.
Aloha compared to nearby areas
Aloha and the rest of the valley
Three golf clubs sit within a couple of kilometres of each other at the top of this valley, and a buyer who looks at one of them nearly always looks at all three. They share a postcode, a school run and the road down to Puerto Banús, and they differ in what the homes are and in what they cost to hold.
| Address | Typical asking, per m² | Listed | Running costs, per year | Character |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aloha | €7,436 | 108 houses and villas | €4,800 | The course with a school and a village beside it, houses and garden apartments in equal measure |
| Las Brisas | €9,559 | 123 houses and villas | €3,894 | The first course in the valley, and villas on larger plots almost throughout |
| Los Naranjos | €8,682 | 85 houses and villas | €3,336 | The western course, quieter, and again mostly houses |
| Nueva Andalucía | €8,246 | 1542 houses and villas | €4,400 | The whole valley, from the coast road to the hills |
| Puerto Banús | €8,653 | 454 apartments | €5,052 | The marina at the mouth of it, apartments on the water |
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.
The useful comparison is what each address gives you on an ordinary day. Las Brisas and Los Naranjos give you a villa on its own ground and very little else to choose from. Puerto Banús gives you the marina underfoot and the noise that comes with it. Aloha gives you the widest choice of the three golf addresses, the school within a few minutes and a square to walk to in the evening, with the beach a short drive away. Which of those is right depends on how you plan to use the home, and that is a conversation rather than a table.
Wider context: our guide to Marbella, area by area, and our property market data behind every figure on this page.
Who buys here
Three buyers, and what Aloha gives each of them
The family that stays all year.
Aloha College has been a few minutes from the course since 1982 and teaches from age three to eighteen, so a child can go through the whole of school without the address changing. Aloha Pueblo covers dinner and the small errands, the supermarkets are on the road down the valley, and the school keeps the neighbourhood busy from September to June.
The golfer.
The club is owned and run by its members, the course is a par 72 by Javier Arana that has taken the European Tour three times and the Ladies Spanish Open twice, and there is a nine hole par three course beside it for the short game and for children. Las Brisas and Los Naranjos are both within a few minutes, so three clubs are in reach from one front door.
The buyer who wants the valley without a villa.
About half of what is listed in Aloha is a house and the other half is apartments, penthouses and townhouses in garden communities, which is a far wider choice than the two golf estates beside it can offer. It is the part of the valley where a lock up and leave home and a family house sit within a few hundred metres of each other.
Common questions
Questions we are asked about Aloha
Where is Aloha in Marbella?
Aloha is the neighbourhood round Aloha Golf Club, at the head of the Nueva Andalucía valley behind Puerto Banús, in postcode 29660. The marina is about three kilometres south, under ten minutes by car down the valley. Las Brisas is roughly a kilometre to the south west, Los Naranjos a little further west, and Aloha College is about five hundred metres east of the course.
What is Aloha Golf Club like?
It is a members’ club, owned by its shareholders since the eighties, with more than 29 nationalities among them. The course opened on 25 October 1975 and was the last one Javier Arana designed, a par 72 of 6,235 metres from the white markers, with four par fives, ten par fours and four par threes. It hosted the Open de Andalucía on the European Tour in 2007, 2008 and 2012 and the Ladies Spanish Open in 2016 and 2019, and there is a nine hole par three course beside the main one.
What type of property for sale in Aloha is most common?
Houses come first in Aloha, with apartments and penthouses together not far behind them. Of the 218 resale properties currently listed here, 108 are houses and villas, 58 are apartments, 28 are penthouses and 8 are townhouses. That is a much more even mix than at Las Brisas or Los Naranjos, where almost everything listed is a villa.
What does it cost to run a home in Aloha?
Across the Aloha listings that publish their running costs, the median annual IBI is €1,200 and the median community charge €3,600, together €4,800 a year before utilities and garden. Las Brisas runs at €3,894 and Los Naranjos at €3,336 on the same measure, and Puerto Banús at €5,052. No official body publishes this figure. It comes from our own records.
Is there an international school in Aloha?
Aloha College is about five hundred metres east of the course, on Calle Escuelas El Ángel. Six teachers and a group of parents founded it in 1982 with 210 pupils, and it now has more than nine hundred, aged three to eighteen, from 57 nationalities. It teaches a British international education with IGCSE, A Level and the International Baccalaureate Diploma, and it remains a not-for-profit foundation governed by parent trustees.
How far is Aloha from the beach and Puerto Banús?
The marina at Puerto Banús is about three kilometres south of the course, and the drive down the valley takes under ten minutes. The beaches either side of the port are the nearest ones. Aloha itself has no sea frontage. It sits at the top of the valley, which is why so many of its terraces look back down over the fairways to the water.
For sale now
Current property for sale in Aloha
A selection of what is for sale in Aloha right now. Every home we are listing here, with asking prices, is on the page for property for sale in Aloha.
5 bedroom villa for sale in Aloha, Nueva Andalucia
- 5 beds
- 5 baths
- Plot: 1,112 m²
- Interior: 553 m²
6 bedroom villa for sale in Aloha, Nueva Andalucia
- 6 beds
- 6 baths
- Plot: 2,349 m²
2 bedroom apartment for sale in Aloha, Nueva Andalucia
- 2 beds
- 2 baths
- Interior: 110 m²
2 bedroom apartment for sale in Aloha, Nueva Andalucia
- 2 beds
- 2 baths
- Interior: 86 m²
3 bedroom ground floor apartment for sale in Aloha, Nueva Andalucia
- 3 beds
- 3 baths
- Interior: 135 m²
4 bedroom apartment for sale in Aloha, Nueva Andalucia
- 4 beds
- 3 baths
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