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GOLDEN MILE

The coastal corridor along the old N-340 from the edge of Marbella's old town to the gates of Puerto Banús — five to seven and a half kilometres, depending on who is selling.
Updated 24 July 2026

Frontline-beach villas and resort complexes on the sea side; mountainside villa estates — Sierra Blanca, Las Lomas del Marbella Club — on the inland side. Not itself gated, though developments within it (Puente Romano, Mansion Club) are. The Marbella Club Hotel (1954) started it; Puente Romano followed in 1979; the King Abdul Aziz Mosque arrived in 1981. Roman villa remains sit near the Río Verde, next to the bridge Puente Romano is named for.

The asking, currently
Asking prices: €639,000 to €8.5M+ in the visible Idealista sample for the Nagüeles–Milla de Oro zone; villas roughly €2.5M–€8.5M. Per square metre: €9,544/m² average asking, €9,216/m² for villas (Idealista); first-line-beach reaches €30,000/m² per the DM Properties/Knight Frank 2026 report. 1,391 homes listed on Idealista, 321 of them villas. (24 July 2026, per the sources below.)

On the record

  • The Marbella Club Hotel, built 1954 by Prince Alfonso von Hohenlohe, is credited with starting the resort era. [source]
  • Puente Romano Resort was built in 1979; the King Abdul Aziz Mosque in 1981. [source]
  • First-line-beach property reaches €30,000/m² — per the DM Properties/Knight Frank Market Report 2026. [source]

The market, on the Wire

Numbers from the linked sources, dated as marked. Asking is not getting — for what sellers actually achieve, the catalogue keeps receipts.

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