Area guide · The ridge above the La Quinta valley
Las Colinas
The ridge above the La Quinta golf valley where Benahavís builds its apartments. It is sold under a name no register carries, and that is the first thing worth understanding about it.
in Las Colinas today
measured above the sea
a couple more to Puerto Banús
for declared income
The place
The apartment hillside of a villa municipality
Las Colinas is the hillside that rises on the east side of the Ronda road directly above the La Quinta golf valley, in the municipality of Benahavís. From the ridge the ground falls away to the fairways below and the long view runs down the valley to the sea, with San Pedro about ten minutes downhill and Puerto Banús a couple of minutes further.
The name needs saying plainly, because the portals will not say it. The area is marketed as Las Colinas de Marbella, and it is not in Marbella. It is not on any official register either: the Catastro and the national gazetteer file this ground under El Herrojo, La Alborada, Cerro Artola and Monte Halcones. The selling name comes from a pair of gated apartment communities built here in the two thousands, and it has quietly spread over the whole ridge.
What the ridge actually is, is Benahavís’s apartment hillside. On a slope of villa estates this is where the apartments and penthouses cluster, the older communities first and now a new generation of schemes, The View and Tiara among them, still arriving on the high ground. This guide sets out how that happened, what the registers say, what living here is like and what the honest numbers are.
A terrace in Las Colinas, with the coast in the distance
Where exactly it is
Between the Ronda road and the golf
The hillside read the way it is driven, up the A-397 from San Pedro, with the La Quinta valley falling away on the right. Las Colinas is the ridge on the east side of the road, Monte Halcones at its southern shoulder, La Heredia across the tarmac and El Madroñal on the slope above.
- 1Las ColinasThe ridge itself, apartments and penthouses over the valley
- 2La QuintaThe golf valley directly below, 27 holes through the middle
- 3Monte HalconesThe southern shoulder of the ridge, on the gazetteer
- 4La HerediaThe neighbouring urbanisation across the Ronda road
- 5El MadroñalThe wooded slope above, large plots under cork oaks
- 6Benahavís villageYour own town hall, about fifteen minutes up the 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.
There was nothing here
Bare hill on the Ronda road, then a valley of golf, then a ridge of roofs
The same frame of hillside, flown twice, seventy years apart. In 1956 it is scrub either side of the road to Ronda. The golf arrived in the valley below from 1989, and the ridge has been filling with roofs ever since.
Nothing was added to these frames and nothing was moved. What changes is how much of the ridge has been spoken for, and how recently. Historic and current imagery © Instituto Geográfico Nacional de España, both rendered through one frame at one scale.
How it came to be
The valley got the golf, the ridge got the view
For most of its history this was bare hill country on the road up to Ronda, the kind of ground Benahavís has more of than any coastal municipality nearby. The change started below, not here. The golf valley at the foot of the slope was laid out from 1989, and for years the building stayed down among the fairways while the ridge above kept its scrub.
The apartments came up the hill in the two thousands. Among them were two gated communities named Las Colinas de Marbella; our own records hold the second of them as built in 2009. The name was a borrowed one, Marbella being the address buyers recognised rather than the municipality the blocks stand in, and it stuck. The portals now use it for the whole hillside.
The registers never adopted it. The Catastro files this ridge as El Herrojo, La Alborada and Cerro Artola, the national gazetteer adds Monte Halcones on the southern shoulder, and the town hall’s own notices use those names too. None of that is a problem, but it is the first thing to establish about any home here: the name on the brochure and the name on the deeds will not match, and the deeds are the ones that count.
The current chapter is the busiest. A scheme of fifty six homes in seven low blocks, Tiara, was reported complete in June 2026 with three left to sell after an investment put at forty five point seven million euros. The View, on the high ground, has finished its first phase of forty nine apartments and penthouses with fifty eight more homes under way, and more are following. The money is not arriving by accident: the Tax Agency’s municipal statistics have repeatedly put Benahavís first in Andalucía for declared income.
A dining terrace at an apartment in Las Colinas, with the sea on the horizon
No official register carries the name Las Colinas. The ground files under El Herrojo, La Alborada and Cerro Artola.
Benahavís has repeatedly topped the Tax Agency’s municipal table for declared income, most recently on the 2022 figures.
Living here
A ridge that works by the short drive
The school run goes downhill. Aloha College, in the golf valley behind Nueva Andalucía, was founded in 1982 by six teachers and a group of parents, was among the first schools in Spain to offer the International Baccalaureate and now teaches more than nine hundred pupils. Laude San Pedro International College takes children from two and a half to eighteen a similar distance the other way. Both are about ten minutes from the ridge.
Healthcare splits between the village and the coast. Benahavís runs its own health centre, because this is your municipality rather than Marbella’s, and the private hospitals people actually use, Quirónsalud Marbella and Hospital Ochoa, are a short drive east. Helicópteros Sanitarios has run a 24 hour home doctor and ambulance service out of Puerto Banús since 1988.
Getting about is simple and entirely by car. San Pedro is about five kilometres down the road and Puerto Banús about eight, so both are roughly ten minutes. Benahavís village is about fifteen minutes up the road, Málaga airport about an hour east, and there is no train on this coast, so the garage matters as much as the terrace.
What the height buys is the reason people look here at all. The ridge climbs from about a hundred and forty metres to about two hundred and sixty at the top, the whole La Quinta valley opens below it, and the golf keeps that ground green and unbuilt for good. The apartments were put here for the outlook, and the outlook is protected by the fairways underneath it.
A terrace in Las Colinas over the gardens
Schools
Aloha College, founded 1982 and an early International Baccalaureate school in Spain, and Laude San Pedro International College, both about ten minutes downhill.
Healthcare
Benahavís runs its own health centre in the village; Quirónsalud Marbella and Hospital Ochoa are a short drive east, with a 24 hour home doctor service from Puerto Banús.
Getting about
Ten minutes to San Pedro or Puerto Banús, fifteen to Benahavís village, about an hour to Málaga airport. A car is part of life.
Golf
Six areas of this municipality carry golf in their registered cadastral name. The 27 holes of La Quinta are the ones directly below the ridge.
What things cost
What is asked, and what was paid
Two numbers get called the price here, and they are kept apart. Registered sale prices are only published by postcode, and 29679 covers this ridge together with the rest of the Benahavís hillside, so read the deed figure as the municipality rather than as Las Colinas. What is actually for sale on the ridge is counted below from our own records, and it is a short list, which is itself worth knowing.
What buyers actually paid
Registered sale prices are only published by postcode, and postcode 29679 covers Las Colinas together with the rest of the Benahavís hillside. So the deed figure below is for the whole district rather than for Las Colinas 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 Las Colinas 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 Las Colinas
44% of the stock
17% 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 Las Colinas 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 the stock says what the ridge is. Everything on the market here is an apartment, a duplex or a penthouse; there are no villas and no plots, because the villa ground of this municipality is elsewhere and the ridge was built for the stacked view. The list is short, and it understates the activity, because the busiest selling here is new homes sold directly by their promoters, which never appear in resale counts. When a resale does appear it tends to be the only one of its kind on the hill at that moment.
- Apartments844% of listings
- Penthouses317% of listings
Resale stock listed in Las Colinas 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
Las Colinas compared to nearby areas
The Benahavís hillside, in order of height
Five addresses climb one hillside and one deed postcode, and they are ordered here the way the hill orders them, from the summit estates down to the valley floor. Where too few homes are listed in an address to price it honestly, the table says so rather than guessing.
| Address | Typical asking, per m² | Listed | Running costs, per year | Character |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Zagaleta | €8,698 | 8 houses and villas | €15,977 | The summit of the municipality, behind its own gates |
| El Madroñal | €8,491 | 185 houses and villas | €6,784 | The wooded slope above the ridge, large plots under old cork oaks |
| Real de La Quinta | €6,152 | 22 apartments | too few to say | The new resort ground at the head of the valley, a separate address |
| Las Colinas | €6,852 | 8 apartments | too few to say | The apartment ridge over the golf, older communities and new schemes |
| La Quinta | €8,672 | 347 houses and villas | €4,125 | The valley itself, the course through the middle of it |
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.
Las Colinas is the one address on this hill where the apartment is the point rather than the compromise. Everything above it on the ladder sells land and privacy; the ridge sells the view with a door you can lock and leave. Which is right depends on how many months a year you will be here, 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 Las Colinas gives each of them
The lock-up-and-leave.
This is the case the ridge makes best. Nearly everything for sale here is an apartment, a duplex or a penthouse inside a gated community, which means you close one door and go, and the view is still there when you come back. On a hillside of villas that is a rarer offer than it sounds.
The year-round home.
The valley below keeps working in winter. Two international schools are about ten minutes down the hill, Benahavís runs its own health centre in the village, and San Pedro is close enough that the season ending changes very little.
The long hold.
The municipality this ridge belongs to has repeatedly declared the highest average income in Andalucía, and the building here is new enough that most of it has decades of life before the first serious maintenance. What you are holding is the apartment stock of a villa municipality, and there is not much of it.
Common questions
Questions we are asked about Las Colinas
Is Las Colinas in Marbella or Benahavís?
Benahavís. The area is widely marketed as Las Colinas de Marbella, but every parcel on the ridge sits in the municipality of Benahavís, in postcode 29679, and it is Benahavís town hall that handles licences and bills the IBI. The Marbella in the selling name is the address buyers recognise, not the address on the deeds.
Why can I not find Las Colinas on an official map?
Because no official register carries the name. The Catastro files this ground as El Herrojo, La Alborada and Cerro Artola, and the national gazetteer adds Monte Halcones on the southern shoulder. Las Colinas began as the name of a pair of gated apartment communities built here in the two thousands and spread to the whole ridge through the portals. It is a real place with an informal name, which is exactly why the paperwork on any purchase here should be read against the registered name rather than the marketed one.
How far is Las Colinas from Puerto Banús and San Pedro?
About ten minutes to either. San Pedro is roughly five kilometres down the Ronda road and Puerto Banús roughly eight, with Benahavís village about fifteen minutes in the other direction and Málaga airport about an hour east. There is no train on this coast, so plan on driving.
What type of property for sale in Las Colinas is most common?
Apartments, and almost nothing else. Of the 18 resale properties listed here, 8 are apartments and 3 are penthouses, with the rest duplexes. There are no villas and no plots, which on this coast is the clearest possible signal of what the ridge was built to be.
Is Las Colinas a gated community?
It is a hillside of separate gated communities rather than one gated estate. The older communities are gated with their own security, and the newest schemes run concierge style services behind their own gates. Arrangements and charges differ community by community, so ask us about the specific building before you decide.
What are The View and Tiara?
The two most visible of the new generation of schemes on the ridge. The View, on the high ground, has completed its first phase of forty nine apartments and penthouses with fifty eight more homes under way across two further phases. Tiara, fifty six homes in seven low blocks with two homes per floor, was reported complete in June 2026 with three left to sell. Both sell mainly directly rather than through resale listings, which is why the ridge’s resale count looks quieter than the ridge does.
For sale now
Current property for sale in Las Colinas
A selection of what is for sale in Las Colinas right now. Every home we are listing here, with asking prices, is on the page for property for sale in Las Colinas.
3 bedroom duplex for sale in Las Colinas de Marbella, Benahavis
- 3 beds
- 3 baths
- Interior: 182 m²
2 bedroom apartment for sale in Las Colinas de Marbella, Benahavis
- 2 beds
- 2 baths
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The Marbella Buyers Guide
Everything a buyer needs before the first viewing in Las Colinas 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.
Prefer to read it online? The buyers guide page. Every figure on this page sits in our property market data.
Talk to us
Tell us which door on the ridge you want
The older communities and the new schemes share one hillside and do not suit the same buyer, and the register a home sits in changes what the paperwork looks like. Tell us what the days should look like, and we will send you the homes that deliver it, with the honest drawbacks of each and the registered name checked before you view.
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