The residential valley José Banús laid out in the late 1960s as the hinterland of the marina that carries his name. Puerto Banús opened in May 1970; the golf courses arrived within the same decade, and the villas followed the fairways. Half a century later the arrangement Banús drew still explains the zone.
Nueva Andalucía is a shallow amphitheatre of hills behind the port, floored with fairways, laced with villa streets, and closed to the north by the limestone face of La Concha. What distinguishes it from every other luxury address in Marbella is not the golf. It is that the zone works in February.
The supermarkets are open, the restaurants serve lunch to people who live here, and the school run exists — Aloha College sits inside the valley itself. It is the closest thing Marbella has to a year-round neighbourhood at this price level, and families who begin their search on the coast road frequently end it here.
On the 9 October 2026 snapshot the register lists 478 residences in Nueva Andalucía from €350,000: a median asking price of €895,000, and a median of €6,013 per built square metre across 478 priced comparables. The valley trades postcode prestige for floor area and golf frontage; the coast road trades the reverse.
The rung matters more than the zone. La Cerquilla, gated on the high ground between the Los Naranjos fairways, is by common consent the most expensive run of addresses in the valley; the Las Brisas and Los Naranjos perimeters carry the classic golf-front product; Aloha has the settled, school-run character; La Campana and the lower streets hold the entry pricing.
The register publishes no sub-zone medians: the index measures the valley as one zone and prints its sample size beside the figure. A per-street figure published without one cannot be checked, and much of what is published about Marbella sub-zones is exactly that.
Three championship courses share the valley floor: Real Club de Golf Las Brisas (Robert Trent Jones Sr., 1968; host of the World Cup of Golf in 1973 and 1989), Los Naranjos (Trent Jones again, 1977), and Aloha (1975), among the final designs of Javier Arana. For a resident on the right street the geometry is a fairway inside three minutes on foot, the marina inside ten by car.
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