Casares Golf Properties for Sale

Between the AP-7 motorway and the white village of Casares, the MA-8300 climbs through cork oak and olive country past a single estate containing seven restaurants, a Nicklaus-branded golf academy and a 6,000 m² beach club down on the Bahía de Casares. Finca Cortesin is, by some distance, the densest concentration of culinary investment on the far western Costa del Sol — and it sits in a municipality of barely a few thousand registered residents.

A decade ago, a son inheriting a €1.5 million villa in Mijas faced a Spanish inheritance tax bill of €474,260. Under the rules now in force in Andalucía, the same inheritance produces a bill of roughly €4,742 — and if the estate had been worth under €1 million per heir, nothing at all. For the thousands of foreign families who own property between Marbella and Casares, the question of what happens to a Spanish home on death has quietly become one of the most favourable parts of the entire ownership equation. It has also become one of the least understood.

Casares is not one place but three. There is the white village itself — a stack of lime-washed houses pinned to a hillside beneath a ruined Moorish castle, fifteen kilometres inland. There is Casares Costa, the band of beach, golf and new-build apartments along the old N-340. And between the two sits resort country, anchored by Finca Cortesin, the five-star estate that hosted the 2023 Solheim Cup. For a buyer priced out of central Marbella and watching Estepona climb, those three Casares add up to the most interesting value question on the western Costa del Sol.