Area guide · The beach estate east of Marbella
Property for Sale in Los Monteros
A hotel opened here in 1962 and a golf course, a tennis club, a riding club and a beach club followed it. The houses came last, which is why the address reads the way it does.
in Los Monteros today
for a villa here
and the estate began
half an hour to the airport
The place
Where the beach is still dune rather than promenade
Los Monteros is the stretch of coast about ten minutes east of Marbella where the beach is still protected dune rather than promenade. It runs from the Río Real golf course to the edge of El Rosario, with the coast road behind it and the hillside of Altos de los Monteros rising above that.
It was not laid out as a housing estate and then given amenities. It happened the other way round. A hotel opened in 1962, a golf course, a tennis club, a riding club and a beach club were built around it, and the houses were fitted in afterwards between the hotel and the tennis courts. Sixty years on you can still read that order on the ground.
This guide sets out how the place came to be, what the street register says about it, what living here is actually like, and what the numbers say, including the running costs no official body publishes and we hold ourselves.
Where exactly it is
Between the golf course and the dunes
The coast read west to east, from Marbella’s old town out towards Elviria. Los Monteros sits in the middle of it with the Río Real course on one side and Bahía de Marbella tucked between them, and Altos de los Monteros on the slope directly behind.
- 1Los MonterosThe estate itself, between the coast road and the beach
- 2Altos de los MonterosThe hillside above, higher, greener and quieter
- 3Río RealThe 1965 Javier Arana course, immediately west
- 4Bahía de MarbellaThe beachside pocket between the two
- 5Marbella old townTen minutes west, the squares and the market
- 6ElviriaTen minutes east, the far end of Marbella’s beaches
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 and a dune line, then a resort, then a neighbourhood
The same frame of coast, flown twice, seventy years apart. In 1956 it is field boundaries, the river and the dune ridge behind the beach. The hotel and its amenities arrive in the sixties and the houses fill the ground between them.
Nothing was added to these frames and nothing was moved. The only thing that changes is how much of the ground 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
The hotel came first, and everything else followed it
In 1962 a banker named Ignacio Coca opened a hotel on the seaward side of the old coast road, next to the mouth of the Río Real. It had thirty five rooms. Demand meant it was enlarged three times, to a hundred and sixty eight rooms, twenty villas and more than four hundred staff, and its restaurant El Corzo became the first hotel restaurant in Spain to hold a Michelin star.
What matters for the neighbourhood is not the hotel but what was built around it. The heritage inventory of the N-340 corridor records the whole thing as one complex: the hotel, a golf course, bungalows, a beach club, a tennis club and a riding club. The golf course is Río Real, laid out by Javier Arana and opened in 1965, eighteen holes over six thousand metres following the river to where it meets the sea. The beach club is La Cabane, open by the same summer, and the hotel’s own record has the then Prince and Princess Juan Carlos and Sofía among the first through the door.
The houses arrived to fill the gaps. The same inventory catalogues the Urbanización Los Monteros separately: detached villas set between the hotel complex and the tennis club, white walled, with rounded corners and flat roofs, in the idiom that runs the length of this coast road. Both the hotel and the urbanisation are catalogued to the years between 1951 and 1975, and both carry Nivel 2 partial protection under Marbella’s 2010 general plan, which is a rare thing to be able to say about a residential address.
The hotel closed for more than a year and reopened on 19 March 2025 after a refurbishment reported at fourteen million euros, with the mayor there for it. That matters to a buyer for an unromantic reason. The engine that built this neighbourhood is running again, and the beach club, the golf and the courts are within walking distance of the houses rather than somewhere you drive to.
Thirty five rooms to begin with, and a golf course, tennis club, riding club and beach club around it.
Both the hotel and the villa estate carry partial protection under Marbella’s 2010 general plan.
Living here
Built for February as well as August
The single most useful fact about living here is the least glamorous. Hospital Costa del Sol, the public hospital for the whole western Costa del Sol, stands on the A-7 at kilometre 187 in postcode 29603, the same postcode as Los Monteros and the same kilometre marker the hotel used for its own address for decades. It runs the emergency department for nine municipalities from Manilva to Mijas. Private cover is close too, with Quirónsalud Marbella and Hospital Ochoa a short drive west, but having the region’s public hospital at the end of your road is not something most Marbella addresses can say.
The schools work in the other direction. English International College, founded in 1982 and teaching the British curriculum from three to eighteen, is at Ricmar on the coast road a few minutes east, so the run is out of town rather than into it. The international schools on the Golden Mile hillside are about fifteen minutes the other way, which gives a family a real choice rather than one option.
Getting around is a coast road life. Marbella’s old town is about ten minutes west and Elviria about ten minutes east, both on the A-7, with the AP-7 toll motorway above for longer runs. Málaga airport is around half an hour east. There is no train to Marbella, so a car, or a driver, is part of life here.
The beach is the reason most people come and look. In 2015 nine dune systems along the Marbella coast were declared the Reserva Ecológica Dunas de Marbella, and the ones in front of Los Monteros are among them, which is why the sand here has a ridge of pine, juniper and marram behind it rather than a wall of apartment blocks. The ayuntamiento is currently taking the old waste water pumping station and seventeen manholes off this beach, a five million euro job that opens another six hundred metres of coastal path and lets the Adelfas dunes be replanted.
Schools
English International College at Ricmar, British curriculum from 3 to 18, founded 1982, a few minutes east on the coast road.
Healthcare
Hospital Costa del Sol on the A-7 at km 187, the public hospital for nine municipalities, plus private cover a short drive west.
Getting about
Ten minutes to Marbella old town, ten to Elviria, about half an hour to Málaga airport. A car is part of life.
The beach
Protected dune rather than promenade, part of the Reserva Ecológica Dunas de Marbella declared in 2015.
What things cost
What is asked, and what was paid
Two numbers both get called “the price” here, and setting them side by side without saying which is which is how a guide contradicts itself. So they are kept apart. Registered sale prices are only published by postcode, and 29603 covers Los Monteros together with Río Real and Bahía de Marbella, which between them make a much wider and much more mixed area than this one. The asking prices are Los Monteros’s own.
Asking prices, per square metre
The bar is the middle half of what is being asked for each type in Los Monteros 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 Monteros, 121 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 29603. Homes completed this year at a typical €4,726 per square metre, 1 per cent above Marbella as a whole. Houses went for €4,910 over an average 220 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.
- Postcode 29603, all homes€4,726405 deeds
- Postcode 29603, apartments€4,653328 deeds
- Postcode 29603, houses€4,91077 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 29603 covers Los Monteros together with Río Real and Bahía de Marbella. 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 Monteros
50% of the stock
40% of the stock
4% 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 Monteros 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 tells you how the estate was assembled. Houses on their own plots and apartments both appear in quantity, which is unusual, and it follows directly from a resort complex being filled in with villas on one side and blocks going up on the slope behind. Very little raw land changes hands. The urbanisation is protected in the general plan and the beach in front is a declared reserve, so there is not much left to draw a new plot on.
- Apartments6050% of listings
- Houses and villas4940% of listings
- Townhouses54% of listings
- Penthouses43% of listings
- Plots22% of listings
Resale stock listed in Los Monteros 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 Monteros listings that publish their running costs, the median annual property tax, the IBI, is €1,418, and the median community charge is €2,988. Together that is €4,406 a year before utilities, staff, pool and garden.
It is worth seeing that next to the neighbours on the same coast. Río Real, immediately west, runs at €4,704 a year on the same measure, Elviria further east at €3,544, and the Golden Mile at €6,967. The community charge is what moves the figure most. A house inside a gated community with security, gardens and a shared pool carries a bill that a stand alone villa on its own plot does not, and the tax follows the size of the ground underneath.
None of that is a reason to hesitate. It is a reason to know the number before you make an offer rather than after, and to have it in front of you when a seller’s agent tells you the fees are modest.
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From our own records, 66 listings publishing running costs, as at 8 August 2026.
Los Monteros compared to nearby areas
The Marbella east ladder, in order
Four addresses share this stretch of coast and one deed postcode, and they do not trade level. The Golden Mile is added as the benchmark everybody here measures against. Asking prices put them in an order that surprises anyone who assumes east is uniformly cheaper than west.
| Address | Typical asking, per m² | Listed | Running costs, per year | Character |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Monteros | €8,609 | 49 | €4,406 | Beach estate with golf, tennis and a beach club built in |
| Río Real | €5,287 | 43 | €4,704 | The 1965 course and the houses around its fairways |
| Bahía de Marbella | €7,929 | 19 | too few to say | A small beachside pocket between the two |
| Elviria | €5,306 | 167 | €3,544 | Ten minutes east, larger, greener and more mixed |
| The Golden Mile | €8,581 | 862 | €6,967 | The benchmark address west of the town |
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 Monteros is the one address in this group that was built as a resort and turned into a neighbourhood, and the market has consistently priced it as a frontline address rather than an eastern one. Which of these is right for you depends on whether you want the amenities inside the estate or the space and the quiet of the slope behind it, 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 Los Monteros gives each of them
The year-round home.
This is the case Los Monteros makes best. The public hospital for the western Costa del Sol is on the coast road at the same kilometre marker, a British school sits a few minutes east, the beach is at the end of the road and Marbella is ten minutes west. Very little of the year here depends on the season.
The holiday home.
Golf, tennis, a beach club and a protected dune within a walk of the front door, and no strip to fight through to reach any of it. For anyone who has owned nearer Puerto Banús and found the summer too busy, this is usually the answer.
The long hold.
The beach in front is a declared ecological reserve and the estate behind it is a protected urbanisation in the general plan, so neither the outlook nor the density is going to be rewritten. That is a narrower kind of scarcity than a headline count of plots, and a more durable one.
Common questions
Questions we are asked about property for sale in Los Monteros
Is Los Monteros a gated community?
Los Monteros is a residential estate rather than a single gated development, with a number of separate gated communities inside it and a good many individual villas that are not gated at all. Arrangements differ street by street, so ask us about a specific address before you decide.
How far is Los Monteros from Marbella town?
About ten minutes by car along the A-7, and roughly the same again east to Elviria. Málaga airport is about half an hour east. There is no train to Marbella, so plan on driving.
What type of property for sale in Los Monteros is most common?
It is more mixed than most Marbella addresses, because a resort complex was filled in with villas and apartments were then built on the slope behind. Of the 121 resale properties listed here, 49 are houses, 60 are apartments and 5 are townhouses, with only 2 plots of land.
What is the beach at Los Monteros like?
It is one of the few stretches of Marbella coast that still has a dune ridge behind it rather than a promenade. Nine dune systems along this coast were declared the Reserva Ecológica Dunas de Marbella in 2015 and the ones in front of Los Monteros are among them, so the character of the beach here is protected rather than simply undeveloped.
What does it cost to run a home in Los Monteros?
Across the listings that publish their running costs, the median annual IBI is €1,418 and the median community charge €2,988, together €4,406 a year before utilities, staff and garden. No official body publishes this figure. It comes from our own records.
Why is it called Los Monteros?
A montero is a man who takes part in a montería, the Spanish drive hunt in which packs of hounds work a stretch of scrub towards guns standing in lines called armadas. The street register carries the idea all the way through: twelve streets named after wild animals, and six more after the ground and the parts of the hunt itself.
For sale now
Current property for sale in Los Monteros
What is for sale in Los Monteros 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.
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