This detached villa is located in Los Flamingos, a residential urbanisation in the Benahavís municipality between Marbella and Estepona on the Costa del Sol. The property has a fixed asking price of €5,000,000 and was completed in 2019. It offers eight bedrooms, ten bathrooms and 1,016 m² of constructed area on a private plot of 1,906 m². Outdoor space includes two swimming pools, approximately 243 m² of open terraces and 41 m² of covered terraces. A 147 m² garage provides parking and storage. The villa is frontline golf, with sea, mountain and golf views, and is key-ready.
Key characteristics of location, homes, project phase and points of attention.
Los Flamingos is a gated residential urbanisation in the hills of Benahavís, positioned between Marbella, Estepona and the village of Benahavís itself. The area is known for the Villa Padierna resort and its golf courses. Shops, schools and forest are all listed as nearby settings, and beaches lie at approximately 1.8 km as the crow flies, with an almost flat gradient towards the coast.
The property is designed for large-scale residential use: eight bedrooms and ten bathrooms allow a household with staff or frequent guests to function independently. The lift connects levels, underfloor heating serves the bathrooms, and air conditioning covers hot and cold modes. Two pools and 284 m² of combined terraces extend daily living outdoors for most of the year.
This is not a new-build development but an existing, key-ready villa completed in 2019. No construction risk or delivery waiting time applies. The condition is listed as excellent. Any dates mentioned in connection with the property's completion are indicative and based on information provided by the seller.
The database lists no features such as a home office, gym, spa or separate staff apartment, even though the floor area would allow such layouts to be created. Plot size is 1,906 m², which for this segment is moderate. The villa lies in an urbanisation, so community rules and fees apply. Only one primary school is recorded in the wider dataset.
Ref: VL109671
Source: Wikipedia, Wikidata, INE, Junta de Andalucía
This property fits a small number of recognisable situations. The first is a large or multi-generational family relocating to the Costa del Sol permanently, needing eight bedrooms and the separation that ten bathrooms provide, combined with proximity to international schools in the Marbella-Benahavís-Estepona triangle. The second is a buyer seeking an substantial holiday residence for extended family and guests, where the two pools and large terraces absorb high occupation without the house feeling crowded. A third profile is a household with staff, for whom the number of bathrooms and the lift simplify daily logistics across levels. The villa is less obvious for buyers wanting a lock-up-and-leave apartment, or for those who plan to live without a car: Los Flamingos is a hillside urbanisation where a vehicle is part of daily routine. Buyers focused primarily on rental yield should also note that at this price level, returns typically depend on a limited luxury rental market rather than volume letting. The property suits a long ownership horizon in which the buyer values space, privacy and a frontline golf position over walkability to a town centre.
The villa was completed in 2019, which places it within the current generation of Costa del Sol luxury construction: cavity walls, modern glazing and installation standards that pre-date the latest energy regulations but largely align with them. The listed technical features confirm a fully climate-controlled house: air conditioning in hot and cold modes, plus underfloor heating in the bathrooms, which is a comfort feature typically found in this segment. A lift connects the levels, an installation that carries maintenance obligations but substantially improves usability of a house of this size. The image material shows a luxury-level finishing standard, including bathrooms with gold-coloured fittings and bedrooms with wooden flooring, consistent with the listed condition 'excellent'. As this is a completed resale property, the buyer can inspect every finish physically before purchase, unlike in off-plan buying. The 243 m² of open terraces and 41 m² of covered terraces indicate a deliberate outdoor-living design, with the covered section providing shade and use during rain or peak sun. The 147 m² garage is integrated into the property. What the database does not record is the energy performance documentation, the exact kitchen appliance specification and the state of the pool installations; these should be verified during a technical survey, which is standard practice for a property of this value and age.
The asking price is fixed at €5,000,000; this is an existing resale villa, so there is no price list or unit variation as with new-build projects. What varies at this level is the negotiation margin, which depends on seller circumstances and comparable sales in Los Flamingos and neighbouring Benahavís urbanisations. For context, new-build apartments elsewhere on the Costa del Sol in this dataset start between roughly €205,000 and €321,000, which illustrates the segment difference: this villa is priced at the top of the regional market, where value is determined by plot, view, built area and urbanisation rather than by price per square metre alone. Availability is immediate, as the villa is key-ready.
Daily life at this property revolves around its horizontal layout between house, terrace and pool. The south-east orientation means the outdoor areas receive morning and midday sun, which in practice shifts terrace use towards breakfast and lunch during summer, when the covered 41 m² section becomes the more comfortable option in the afternoon heat. The two pools allow a separation between a swimming lane and a quieter relaxation pool, or between adult and children's use. With 1,016 m² of built area across eight bedrooms, the villa functions as a house in which several household units can live at once: an extended family, owners with long-stay guests, or a household with live-in staff given the ten bathrooms. The 147 m² garage accommodates several cars and storage, which matters because Los Flamingos is a car-dependent hillside urbanisation; most daily errands, school runs and restaurant visits are done by car. The frontline golf setting places the villa directly on the edge of a course, so the immediate view is green and quiet rather than urban. Evenings are typically spent on the terraces with views over the golf course towards the sea and the mountain backdrop of the Benahavís interior. The climate data for the wider region shows average monthly temperatures of 12°C to 27°C, so outdoor use of the property is realistic for roughly ten months a year, with the swimming season at about five months at comfortable water temperatures.
Los Flamingos sits on the western side of Benahavís municipality, roughly between Marbella and Estepona, and belongs to a band of hillside golf urbanisations that includes neighbouring areas such as La Quinta and El Paraiso. The immediate surroundings are green: the golf course, landscaped urbanisation gardens and, further inland, the forested hills of the Benahavís interior, which is also listed as a nearby setting. Daily life is car-based. The nearest beach is approximately 1.8 km away as the crow flies, reachable in a few minutes by car given the 0.9% average gradient towards the coast. Beach clubs, supermarkets, international schools and the restaurants of Benahavís village are all within a short drive, consistent with the 'close to shops' and 'close to schools' listings. Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport lies roughly 6 km in a straight line according to the dataset, making international travel straightforward, with Gibraltar Airport about 101 km away as a secondary option. Public transport in the wider area consists of several lines with 21 stops, which covers the main road corridors but does not replace a car for hillside urbanisations.
The map shows the villa's position in Los Flamingos, on the Benahavís side of the Marbella-Estepona corridor. Visible reference points include the golf course at the urbanisation's edge, the coastline at roughly 1.8 km direct distance, and the road connections towards the A-7 and AP-7. All distances shown are straight-line; actual road distances can be longer in this hilly terrain.
Approximate area · exact address shared on request
Within the Costa del Sol, Los Flamingos belongs to the Benahavís luxury belt, a municipality with one of the highest concentrations of high-end villas in Spain, positioned between the established centres of Marbella and the more recently developed Estepona. Relative to the Marbella town centre and Puerto Banús, Los Flamingos lies a convenient drive west; relative to Estepona it lies just east. This in-between position gives residents access to two town centres, two hospital catchments and two international school clusters, which is a practical advantage for permanent residents. The area trades direct seafront walkability for hillside views, golf and low-density housing.
Accessibility is organised around the coastal A-7 motorway and the AP-7 toll road, both of which connect Los Flamingos to Marbella, Estepona and the airport corridor. The nearest beach, Playa de San Andrés, lies about 1.8 km away in a straight line, with the gradient to the sea at 0.9%, meaning an almost flat route to the coast. Three golf courses are recorded in the dataset at 6.2 to 8.9 km direct distance, alongside the golf facilities of the resort within Los Flamingos itself. Two marinas, IGY Málaga Marina and Marina Real Club Mediterráneo, are 3.4 and 3.5 km away respectively by direct distance. Train stations are recorded at 0.7 to 1.1 km straight-line distance. Everyday amenities are dense: the dataset counts around 170 restaurants, 129 pharmacies, 59 banks and 97 cafés within 2 km, plus sports facilities including a sports hall, football pitch and tennis school within about 0.7 km. Electric-vehicle charging points exist at 2.0 to 4.6 km direct distance. Road distances and actual travel times can exceed these straight-line figures.
| Beach Distance | 1.8 km |
| Malaga-Costa del Sol (AGP) | 6 km |
| Gibraltar (GIB) | 101 km |
| Barbarela | 0.7 km |
| El Torcal | 1 km |
Source: OpenStreetMap, Google Maps
The regional climate data shows average monthly temperatures ranging from 12°C in the coldest month to 27°C in the warmest, with an annual average of 18.8°C. In practice this means a winter in which terraces remain usable at midday and a summer in which air conditioning, present in this villa, is standard. The swimming season lasts about five months, the period in which sea water stays at or above 20°C, which corresponds roughly with May to October. The elevation is recorded at 17 m above sea level with a 0.9% gradient to the beach, so no steep access routes are involved and cycling or walking to the coast is physically realistic. The villa's position on the edge of a golf course with forested hills behind it combines open sea views with a green backdrop, and the listed views, sea, mountain, golf, country and panoramic, reflect that intermediate position between coast and interior.
Source: Open-Meteo (2020–2025 average)
The nearest recorded beach is Playa de San Andrés at 1.8 km direct distance, followed by Playa de la Misericordia at 2.1 km and Playa Sacaba at 3.1 km. In the Los Flamingos area itself, the beaches of the New Golden Mile between Marbella and Estepona, with their beach clubs, are the practical coastal destination by car. Golf is the central recreation: the villa is frontline golf, and the dataset additionally lists Club de Golf Málaga Parador at 6.2 km, Club de Golf de Guadalhorce at 6.9 km and Campo de Golf Miguel Ángel Jiménez at 8.9 km straight-line distance. Sports facilities within about 0.7 km include a sports hall, a football pitch and a tennis school. For water-based recreation, two marinas lie 3.4 to 3.5 km away in direct distance. The villa's own two swimming pools mean daily swimming does not depend on the beach season.
Source: OpenStreetMap
| Month | Avg. Temperature | Rainfall |
|---|---|---|
| January | 12.5°C | 62 mm |
| February | 13.2°C | 56 mm |
| March | 14.9°C | 66 mm |
| April | 16.9°C | 41 mm |
| May | 19.8°C | 23 mm |
| June | 23.6°C | 4 mm |
| July | 26.1°C | 0 mm |
| August | 26.7°C | 3 mm |
| September | 23.8°C | 25 mm |
| October | 19.9°C | 61 mm |
| November | 15.8°C | 77 mm |
| December | 13.4°C | 88 mm |
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At €5,000,000, this villa operates in a different market segment from most new-build product on the Costa del Sol. The comparable projects in this dataset, Aquamar in Torre del Mar from €269,950, Lantana Residencial in Mijas from €205,000 and Etherna Homes 2 in Estepona from €321,000, are apartment developments aimed at holiday-home and mid-market buyers. This villa, by contrast, competes within the Benahavís luxury villa market, where value is set by plot size, view, built area and urbanisation rather than by price per square metre. Within that local market, Los Flamingos occupies a specific niche: it is a gated, golf-centred urbanisation with the Villa Padierna resort at its core, generally priced below the very top addresses of Sierra Blanca or the beachside front line of Marbella's Golden Mile, but above most inland Benahavús developments without golf frontage. Neighbouring urbanisations such as La Quinta, El Paraiso and Guadalmina Baja offer comparable products; differences lie mainly in golf proximity, view orientation and plot sizes. The practical trade-off in this segment is consistent: hillside positions like Los Flamingos deliver views, golf access and low density, but require a car for beaches, schools and shopping, whereas seafront locations deliver walkability at the cost of privacy and plot size. For a buyer comparing options at this budget, the deciding factors are usually orientation, this villa faces south-east, the condition of a 2019 build versus older stock, and the double-pool configuration, which is uncommon even within this segment. Regional market context: the province records around 800 housing transactions per year in the dataset and a median provincial income of €16,450, both figures that underline how distinct the luxury villa segment is from the general market in which most transactions take place.
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