Marina Properties for Sale

Three hundred waiters brought up from Seville served 22 kilos of beluga caviar to 1,700 guests on the night Puerto Banús opened in May 1970. Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier were there; so were the Aga Khan and a young Julio Iglesias, paid 125,000 pesetas to sing. Fifty-six years on, José Banús's marina remains the most photographed square kilometre on the Costa del Sol — and, for property buyers, one of the least understood.

Where do you keep the boat? For a certain kind of Costa del Sol buyer that question comes before bedrooms, before orientation, before the school run. Between Benalmádena and Estepona, five working marinas hold just over 3,000 berths between them — and each one anchors a property micro-market with its own character, price level and buyer profile.

Málaga province now holds eleven Michelin stars across nine restaurants, and the city where most of them sit is barely forty-five minutes from a Marbella front door. For buyers on the western Costa del Sol, the provincial capital has quietly become the region''s food capital too — a working market, two barrel-poured wine bars older than the railway, and a Michelin-starred dining room over the marina, all an easy lunch away.