Apartment | Atalaya, Estepona

There is a particular kind of apartment that asks nothing of its owner beyond enjoyment, no excess room to heat, no corridor to maintain, and this one is built exactly along those lines.

Set into the hillside between Marbella and Estepona, in the belt of coastline agents call the Golden Triangle for its concentration of golf courses, marinas and restaurants within a short drive of each other, the development was completed in 2024 as eight low rise blocks holding eighty eight homes in total. The architecture, by HCP Arquitectos, favours horizontal lines and deep overhangs over anything showy, and every home carries an A+ energy rating with aerothermal water heating built in rather than added. The communal areas read less like an amenity checklist and more like a small resort: mature gardens wrap a forty metre pool, a separate building holds a heated indoor pool for winter use alongside a gym, spa, sauna and hammam, and a co working lounge gives residents somewhere to take a call without leaving the grounds. It is the sort of development where the gardens were planted early enough to have already filled in, which matters more than any brochure figure.

This two bedroom apartment sits on a middle floor with a south facing terrace that functions as a genuine second living room rather than a balcony added for the listing photographs. Morning light reaches the kitchen and dining area early and holds through the afternoon, the kind of orientation that makes the difference between a terrace used daily and one used twice a summer.

Inside, the kitchen opens fully to the living and dining space, fitted throughout in a neutral palette with stone flooring that continues out onto the terrace so the transition barely registers. A guest toilet sits off the entrance hall, useful when the terrace is doing the entertaining, and a laundry room keeps the practical side of the home separate from the living space. Both bedrooms are doubles with fitted wardrobes, the principal with its own en suite bathroom and the second served by a family bathroom finished with underfloor heating.

The terrace is the reason to choose this apartment over a larger one elsewhere in the resale market. Wide enough for a dining table and a separate seating area, oriented to catch the sun through most of the day, it turns a two bedroom footprint into something that lives considerably larger than its room count suggests. Glass doors run the width of the living room, so the terrace stays visible, and usable, from almost every point inside the apartment.

The apartment comes with an allocated space in the underground garage and a separate storage room, both reached by lift directly from the apartment’s floor.

KEY FEATURES
South facing terrace usable as a second living room
Open plan kitchen, living and dining space
Two double bedrooms, principal with en suite bathroom
Underfloor heating in the family bathroom
Guest toilet off the entrance hall
Separate laundry room
Underground parking space and storage room included
Full access to the development’s pools, spa, gym and sauna

LOCATION
Nearest beach | approximately 1.5 km
San Pedro de Alcantara centre | approximately 3 km
Puerto Banus marina | approximately 7 km | 10 minutes by car
Estepona town centre | approximately 9 km | 12 minutes by car
International schools, Nueva Andalucia | approximately 6 km
Marbella town centre | approximately 13 km | 15 minutes by car
Costa del Sol Hospital | approximately 10 km
Malaga Airport | approximately 70 km | 55 minutes by car