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A ground floor duplex is one of the quieter pleasures along the New Golden Mile, the stretch of Estepona East running toward San Pedro de Alcántara. You step in from the garden, live across two storeys, and never wait for a lift. Most are part of newer gated communities set back from the A-7 around Cancelada, El Paraíso and Atalaya, with communal pools, landscaped grounds and a private terrace or garden of your own. We'll always be straight about which gardens get the afternoon sun and which face a neighbour's wall.
The format suits buyers who want house-like space without the upkeep of a villa. Layouts generally run two or three bedrooms across 120 to 200 square metres built, the lower floor opening to the garden and the bedrooms tucked above or below. You'd typically expect prices to sit a notch above a flat in the same scheme and below a townhouse — a sensible middle band. Families with young children, downsizers who still want stairs and a garden, and second-home owners who like stepping straight onto grass all gravitate here.
When people say "Estepona East" they mean the eastern end of the municipality: the long ribbon of coast and the gentle hills behind it, from the Guadalmina/San Pedro boundary in the east down past Atalaya, El Paraíso, Benamara, El Campanario and Costalita to where Estepona town proper begins. It is the western half of what agents call the New Golden Mile, the Nueva Milla de Oro. It is not an administrative district with hard borders - it is a lifestyle label - but everyone who lives here knows roughly where it starts and stops. The appeal is straightforward: Marbella-side convenience and golf-and-beach living for noticeably less money than the original Golden Mile, with Puerto Banús a quarter of an hour up the AP-7 and Estepona's restored old town the same distance the other way.
It is a genuinely mixed, international community rather than a holiday-only enclave. You'll find Northern European families drawn by the international schools, semi-retired British, Scandinavian and Belgian couples who came for a winter and stayed, golfers who wanted to live on a fairway, and a steady run of remote-working younger buyers who like being fifteen minutes from Banús while paying Estepona prices. Plenty of homes here are lived in year-round, which keeps the supermarkets, padel courts and beach chiringuitos busy out of season - one of the things that separates Estepona East from purely seasonal pockets further along the coast. Spanish owners are in the mix too, particularly in the more established inland urbanisations around Atalaya and El Paraíso.
Villas set the tone here, and they fall into two generations: the older, established detached houses on generous plots around El Paraíso and Atalaya - many from the 1980s and 90s, often with mature gardens and room to renovate - and the newer wave of crisp, white, flat-roofed contemporary villas built frontline to golf or with sea views from the higher ground. Around and beneath the villas sits a deep run of apartments, with ground-floor apartments especially sought after for their private gardens and direct terrace-to-lawn living. You'll also find penthouses and duplex penthouses with big solariums and sea views, town houses and semi-detached villas for buyers who want a garden without a full villa's upkeep, plus the occasional triplex, ground-floor duplex and building plot for those who'd rather create their own. Overall, villas dominate, backed by a healthy spread of garden apartments and penthouses, with townhouses and plots filling out the edges.
This is where Estepona East earns its reputation. Apartments typically start in the mid-200,000s to around 400,000 euros for a comfortable two- or three-bed in an established complex, with frontline-beach and brand-new builds running well into the 600,000s and beyond. Ground-floor garden apartments and penthouses generally sit a notch above their mid-floor neighbours for the outdoor space. Townhouses and semi-detached villas tend to run from roughly 450,000 to 900,000 euros depending on community and proximity to golf. Villas cover an enormous span - you'll find renovation projects from around 700,000 to 900,000, solid family homes in the 1 to 2 million range, and frontline-golf or sea-view contemporary villas from around 2.5 million to 4 million and beyond. As a rough yardstick, inland villa land tends to trade around 3,000 euros per square metre, while frontline-beach apartments command the premiums. We'll always show you where a given asking price sits against what genuinely changes hands - and tell you plainly when a home is chasing a number it won't get.
Golf is the backbone: Atalaya Golf (the Old Course dates to 1968), the Gary Player-designed El Paraíso, the friendly nine-hole El Campanario, plus Estepona Golf and Valle Romano a little further west - you're rarely more than a few minutes from a first tee. The beaches are wide and easy, from Playa del Velerín and Costalita's calm waters to the beach clubs strung along the sand - Laguna Village with its boutiques and Sublim Beach, Trocadero, the Kempinski's club and the long-loved Tikitano. For families, the international schools are a major draw: Atalaya International School sits right in the area, with Mayfair and San José and others within an easy drive. Day to day you've got El Campanario's commercial hub, Laguna Village, and Selwo's safari park on the doorstep for the kids. Getting around is the quiet advantage: Estepona centre and its mural-filled old town are about ten minutes; San Pedro thirteen; Puerto Banús around fifteen; Marbella twenty to twenty-five. Málaga airport is typically 50 to 55 minutes on the AP-7, and Gibraltar airport 40 to 50 minutes the other way - useful for UK flights.
We don't list everything and hope. Because we actually live and work along this stretch, we can tell you the things the portals won't: which urbanisations have healthy community fees and which have a special levy coming, which streets catch the sea breeze and which bake in August, which "sea view" is really a sea glimpse, and which sellers have already had two failed sales and will move on price. We'll happily talk you out of the wrong house. If you tell us your budget, whether you want golf, beach or town on your doorstep, and how you'll actually use the place, we'll point you at the handful of homes worth your time and be honest about the rest. When you're ready to look properly at Estepona East, drop us a line.
A ground floor duplex is an apartment arranged over two floors with its entrance at garden level, so there are no lifts or communal stairs to reach your front door. In Estepona East, along the New Golden Mile toward San Pedro de Alcántara, they usually sit within gated communities with communal pools and include a private garden or terrace on the lower floor.
They typically run two or three bedrooms across roughly 120 to 200 square metres of built space, split over the two levels. Garden plots vary widely — some are a modest patio, others a generous lawn — so it is worth checking the actual private outdoor area rather than the headline size.
Families with young children, downsizers leaving a villa who still want a garden and stairs, and second-home owners who like direct outdoor access all favour this format. It offers house-like space and a private garden with the lower maintenance and shared facilities of a community, usually priced between an apartment and a townhouse in the same area.
Estepona East is the eastern coastal stretch of Estepona municipality, running from the Guadalmina/San Pedro boundary down past Atalaya, El Paraíso, Benamara, El Campanario and Costalita to the edge of Estepona town. It forms the western half of the New Golden Mile (Nueva Milla de Oro), the informal coastal corridor between San Pedro de Alcántara and Estepona. It's a lifestyle label rather than a formal district, but it's prized for offering golf, beach and town within a ten-minute radius at lower prices than Marbella's original Golden Mile.
Apartments generally start in the mid-200,000s to around 400,000 euros for an established two- or three-bed, with frontline-beach and new-build units running into the 600,000s and above. Townhouses and semi-detached villas typically range from about 450,000 to 900,000 euros. Villas span widely: renovation projects from around 700,000 to 900,000, family homes between 1 and 2 million, and frontline-golf or sea-view contemporary villas from around 2.5 million to 4 million and beyond. Ground-floor garden apartments and penthouses usually carry a premium for their outdoor space.
Villas dominate, ranging from established 1980s and 90s houses on generous plots around El Paraíso and Atalaya to new contemporary villas built frontline to golf or with sea views. Alongside them is a deep run of apartments - ground-floor garden apartments are especially popular - plus penthouses and duplex penthouses, town houses, semi-detached villas, and a scattering of triplexes, duplexes and building plots for those who want to build their own.
Yes. It's one of the most family-friendly stretches of the coast, with a year-round resident community rather than a seasonal one. Atalaya International School sits within the area, with other international schools such as Mayfair and San José within an easy drive. Add wide, calm beaches, golf academies, padel courts, El Campanario's amenities and Selwo safari park nearby, and it suits families who want space and outdoor life without being far from Marbella.
Very. It sits right on the AP-7 and A-7 coast road. Estepona centre is about ten minutes, San Pedro roughly thirteen, Puerto Banús around fifteen, and Marbella twenty to twenty-five. Málaga airport is typically 50 to 55 minutes via the AP-7, and Gibraltar airport 40 to 50 minutes in the other direction, which gives buyers two airports and a wide choice of flights.
