Ground Floor Apartment | Atalaya, Estepona

The front door opens directly onto lawn and stone paving, an arrangement that turns the simple act of stepping outside into architecture rather than an afterthought.

The development occupies a hillside pocket of the Golden Triangle, the stretch of coast between Marbella and Estepona prized for its light and its closeness to everything without being swallowed by any of it. Completed in 2024 across eight low rise blocks, the development totals eighty eight homes, apartments, duplexes and penthouses, designed by HCP Arquitectos with an A+ energy rating and aerothermal hot water as standard rather than upgrade. Walking the grounds, what strikes first is the restraint: clean lines, stone and render, gardens that have already matured rather than the raw earth of a new build site. A forty metre outdoor pool anchors the communal gardens, with a heated indoor pool, gym, spa, sauna and hammam housed in a separate wing for the months when the terrace is not quite enough. A co working lounge and a children’s play area round out a scheme built for people who actually live in their second home rather than visit it twice a year.

This ground floor apartment takes full advantage of its position at the base of the building, a south facing aspect that floods the open plan living area with light from mid morning onward and keeps the garden usable in every season.

The kitchen sits open to the dining and living space, fully fitted and finished in the same restrained palette as the rest of the development, stone floors underfoot throughout rather than switching material at the threshold. Glass doors fold back to erase the line between inside and out, and a separate laundry room keeps the everyday mechanics of the home out of sight. Three bedrooms run off a quiet corridor, the principal with its own en suite bathroom, the other two sharing a second bathroom finished with underfloor heating, a small but telling detail for a coastal property built for year round use rather than a summer season.

What sets this unit apart from almost everything else in the development is the private garden, a genuine plot of lawn and paving rather than a token strip of planting, reached directly from the covered terrace. There is also a lower ground room off the garden, unusual in this kind of building, flexible enough to serve as a study or simply storage for the paddleboards and bicycles that get used on this stretch of coast. It is the kind of outdoor space that turns a ground floor position, often the least sought after in an apartment block, into the most interesting one here.

A parking space in the underground garage is included, along with a separate storage room.

KEY FEATURES
Direct garden access from a ground floor position
South facing terrace and private garden
Lower ground flexible room off the garden
Three bedrooms, principal with en suite bathroom
Underfloor heating in both bathrooms
Fully fitted open plan kitchen
Underground parking space and storage room included
Access to the 40 metre pool, indoor spa pool, gym, sauna and hammam

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