UNO Beach Residences

UNO Marbella, known in full as UNO Beach Residences, is a beachfront development on the former El Ancón estate on Marbella’s Golden Mile, immediately beside Puente Romano. This page is our profile of the scheme: what it is, how the site works, how it is specified, what our own legal and urbanistic due diligence found, and how residences actually change hands here.

Status: completing and handing over. UNO Marbella is no longer an off plan proposition. It is a finished address that owners are moving into, which changes both the risk a buyer takes on and the way units become available.

The position

There Is No Second Parcel Like It

The Golden Mile runs roughly four kilometres between Marbella town and Puerto Banús. Almost all of its beachfront was built out decades ago, largely as low density villas and a handful of hotels. A site of this size, on the sand, inside that stretch, is not something the market can produce again.

That single fact governs everything else about UNO Marbella: how the scheme has been planned, how it is specified, and why residences here are held rather than traded.

Where the development stands

UNO Marbella Today: Built, Not Proposed

A buyer at UNO today is not taking construction risk, planning risk or delivery risk. They are buying into a completed beachfront community with its landscaping in, its amenity built and its urbanistic file closed out. The premium that normally attaches to off plan patience has already been paid by somebody else.

It also changes who is selling. Original purchasers who intended to occupy are taking possession. The residences that move from here are the ones released by owners whose circumstances have changed, and they are released quietly.

Architecture and landscape

Low, Horizontal, Turned Towards the Sea

UNO Marbella was designed by Tobal Arquitectos for CTH Capital. The scheme is arranged as eleven low rise blocks rather than a single mass, stepped so that the buildings behind keep their view over those in front. Two planted sea view corridors cut through the site to the beach, and the gardens to east and west hold mature planting rather than new stock.

The masterplan

The UNO Marbella Masterplan

Blocks B1 to B11 step down towards the shoreline. The beach club, restaurant and the family and adults pools sit on the seaward half of the site, with the adults pool carrying its own indoor area. Parking is placed at the perimeter so the interior of the scheme stays pedestrian.

The amenity

A Beach Club That Belongs to the Residents

At UNO Marbella the beach club, restaurant and pool terraces are part of the scheme rather than a concession sold on to an operator, which is what keeps them usable in August. The adults pool has an indoor counterpart for the winter months, and the family pool sits separately so the two do not compete.

Specification

Specified Once, Properly

• Kitchens — Bulthaup
• Appliances — Gaggenau
• Sanitaryware — Dornbracht
• Glazing — Schüco systems
• Home automation — Lutron
• Heating — underfloor throughout
• Climate — aerothermal plant
• Sustainability — BREEAM certification in progress

Finishes vary between blocks, and between original and subsequent purchasers. The specification for any individual residence is confirmed on enquiry.

Accommodation

How the Residences Are Arranged

Residences at UNO Marbella run from ground floor apartments with private gardens and pools, through upper floors, to duplex penthouses and a small number of independent garden houses. The plan below is one example, shown to illustrate how the accommodation is organised and how terrace and solarium relate to the interior. It is not a statement of availability.

Legal and urbanistic position

We Have Read the File

Most agents can send you renders. We have carried out our own legal and urbanistic due diligence on UNO Marbella and hold the underlying documents.

The planning chain behind the site is complete and traceable: the Plan Parcial was approved in June 2012, the reparcelación by the municipal governing board in January 2021, and the Proyecto de Urbanización definitively approved in May 2022. Environmental authorisation was granted in November 2021.

Because the parcel meets the shoreline, works within the coastal protection buffer required separate authorisation from Costas, granted in April 2021. The site also contains the listed El Ancón watchtower, a protected heritage asset, so works were conditioned on archaeological monitoring and authorised on that basis in March 2022.

An Entidad Urbanística de Conservación, the body that takes over maintenance of a completed urbanisation, received initial approval in 2024. That is the ordinary signal that a scheme is arriving at the end of its development cycle rather than the beginning.

Our review identified no title defect. The remaining items are administrative confirmations rather than obstacles, and we are happy to walk a prospective purchaser or their lawyer through the full file. This summary is provided for information; it is not legal advice and does not replace your own conveyancing due diligence.

Acquiring at UNO

Residences Surface. They Are Not Selected From a List

UNO Marbella is placed privately and we do not publish availability. Residences come up as and when an owner decides to release one, which is a different market from choosing a unit off a price list.

Two things follow. Prices vary considerably between residences, so the right comparison is never a headline figure. And genuinely free units are now rare: most are held by long term owners who tend to pass them down rather than sell.

Our advice to buyers is the same each time. Do the research first, decide your budget, and then be in a position to move quickly when something is released. The buyers who miss out are the ones still starting their research when a residence appears.