Inventory on the published register
The published register starts at €350,000. The curated Selection tier starts at €1.5 million. The register is compiled from shared listing feeds and deduplicated so that each residence appears once. The current count is shown on the register itself (/properties), and counts by zone, each with its date, are on the Marbella Property Index (/marbella-property-index).
Some residences are not published and are shown by introduction.
Asking medians by premium zone
The table at the top of this page is read from the register when the page is built: for each zone the median asking price, the median asking price per built m² and the number of priced listings, with the register's floor and the snapshot date printed under it. Every figure carries the sample it was computed from, because a band without an n and a date is an opinion dressed as data. Current asking prices by zone, each with its sample size and date, are on the Marbella Property Index.
A zone with few priced listings publishes with its n attached for the same reason: a thin sample travels with the figure, and the reader can weigh it.
These are asking prices. Spain publishes no per-property closing prices, so nobody — this desk included — can say what any of these zones actually traded at. Individual residences price outside every figure in the table on plot, view quality and finish age.
Where new build slots in
The supply of newly built villa stock in the premium zones is structurally constrained — most premium addresses are fully built out, and replacement-build cycles operate on a residence-by-residence basis rather than at scale. The activity in new-build sits primarily in Estepona New Golden Mile, parts of Benahavís, and in selected restricted developments on the Mijas side.
For active new developments under Muse Selection coverage, see the developments index.
Who is buying
No public dataset records buyer nationality at this price level. The notarial statistics Spain does publish are aggregated by area and across every price tier, so they cannot be read as the mix of buyers in these zones.
What the desk sees in its own enquiries is an observation, not a count, and this page prints no share, ranking or trend by nationality.
Risk and counter-narrative
The desk does not forecast. Whether prices rise or fall from here cannot be read from asking prices, and Spain publishes no closing prices to test a forecast against.
What can be said without a number: premium real estate is not a liquid asset, and the time a residence stays on the market in a soft moment can extend significantly. Buyers structuring against a near-term resale are operating against the asset class's grain.
How the Muse desk reads the cycle
Operationally: look beyond the published catalogue where it thins; honour the published pricing on accurate residences; flag clearly when a listing is at risk of dropping price. We do not publish a year-end market call. The operating frame is the table at the top of this page, which re-measures with the register. The register is refreshed hourly. The Marbella Property Index pages are rebuilt from it once a day.
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