The marina, in brief
Puerto Banús opened in 1970 under the patronage of José Banús, with an inaugural guest list that included Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco. More than fifty years later, the marina anchors the western terminus of the Marbella Golden Mile axis — six minutes from central Marbella, immediately adjacent to the Nueva Andalucía residential register.
Puerto Banús (Puerto José Banús) is run by its concession holder, Puerto José Banús, S.A., under an administrative concession of the Junta de Andalucía (Agencia Pública de Puertos de Andalucía), extended to 3 October 2066. This page gives no berth count and no maximum length: neither has been checked against the marina's own published figures.
Annual mooring fees move with vessel length, basin and season; the schedule is revised and no figure is quoted here. Confirm the current tariff with the marina office before it enters any ownership arithmetic.
Around the berths sits a marine-services cluster — brokerage, refit, provisioning, crew agencies — operating in the marina footprint and the immediate Nueva Andalucía surround. Nobody publishes an audited figure for what it turns over, and this page does not estimate one.
What a "berth property" actually means
The honest definition is narrower than the marketing often suggests. The Puerto Banús berths are rights of use granted inside the port's concession — they are not freehold real estate in the way a residence is. A berth can be held for a contracted term, with the operational right to occupy a specific mooring slot during that term. Whether and how the right transfers is set by its contract; the buyer's lawyer should read it.
A "berth property" in the strict sense is a residence — typically an apartment or penthouse in one of the marina-front buildings — that is sold together with the rights to a specific berth concession. The two together transfer to the buyer; the berth is not automatically tied to the property and the contractual structure matters meaningfully.
Three working tiers:
— Residence with attached superyacht berth (40m+ class): the rarest register. Possibly a small handful of such packages on the public market at any given moment. The berth concession itself carries significant value, which depends on basin position and remaining contract term. — Residence with attached mid-size berth (15-30m class): more common. The berth concession is valued on basin and remaining term. — Residence with berth rental arrangement (not concession ownership): the buyer acquires the residence with a rental contract for nearby berth use. This is the lightest structure and the easiest to acquire, but does not carry the same long-term tenure security as concession ownership.
A residence marketed simply as "with mooring" without specification of structure should be probed carefully — the difference between concession ownership and a one-season rental is material to the buyer's long-term position.
Where the berth properties concentrate
The marina-front buildings with the densest berth-attached residential register are concentrated on the inner basin and the larger superyacht-accessible mooring zones. The main marina-front residential addresses include Gran Marbella, Playas del Duque, and Andalucía del Mar — all 1970s-1980s original construction, solid concrete, marina-front orientation. The penthouse-floor residences in these buildings carry the prime register pricing, and the small set with attached berths form the rarest sub-cohort.
The more valuable berth-attached residences often change hands without being published. The qualified-buyer pool is narrow (a buyer who genuinely needs a superyacht berth and is acquiring property at the same time is a small cohort), and direct relationships with the holding desks tend to move these residences before they reach the public market.
The eastern marina expansion and the more recent additions to the Puerto Banús footprint carry fewer attached-berth residences — most of the structural berth-property concentration sits in the original 1970s-1980s buildings on the inner basin.
Pricing pattern and structural considerations
Pricing on berth-attached residences blends three components: the residential property itself, the berth concession value, and the package premium that reflects the rarity of the combined acquisition. Working observations from the desk:
— Prime penthouse with superyacht (40m+) berth: the residential component asks well clear of the Puerto Banús zone median. The berth concession is priced separately and negotiated privately; the desk shares current bracketing on introduction rather than publishing a band nobody can source. — Marina-adjacent apartment with mid-size berth: the residential component follows the Puerto Banús zone median, with the berth concession priced and transferred separately. — Residence with berth rental (not ownership): pricing follows the underlying residence; the rental berth is a feature without a separate capital component.
Current asking prices by zone, each with its sample size and date, are on the Marbella Property Index.
Structural considerations the buyer's lawyer should review at offer stage:
— Berth concession contract terms: remaining duration, renewal mechanics, transferability conditions, mooring restrictions, and any approval required on transfer, which is not automatic. The port's own concession runs to 3 October 2066. — Building community structure: original-era Puerto Banús buildings operate under their own comunidad de propietarios statutes, with quotas, rules, and sometimes contentious community politics. Reviewing the last 24 months of community minutes is unusually informative in Puerto Banús relative to other Marbella addresses. — Yacht ownership structuring: for buyers acquiring property alongside a vessel, the property and the boat sit under separate Spanish regulatory regimes. Flag state, EU VAT positioning, Temporary Importation regime where applicable — all run in parallel with the property purchase under a coordinated cross-border advisor. — Short-term rental rules: several Puerto Banús buildings have moved to restrict short-term rentals in the past 18 months. Buyers structuring against yield should confirm the building's current rules before closing.
How to begin a brief
For buyers searching specifically on berth properties, brief specificity matters significantly. The register is small, the residences are highly differentiated, and some of them are never published.
The brief that produces a useful short list answers four questions: is concession ownership a hard requirement or is a rental arrangement acceptable, what vessel size class is in scope (which determines the berth tier), is the residence the primary acquisition or is the berth the primary acquisition with the residence as accessory, and what tolerance exists for the building-level community structures of the original 1970s-1980s addresses.
Many buyers come to the desk specifying "berth property" without distinguishing between concession ownership and rental — the first conversation usually settles which structure fits the buyer's longer-term position. Reach the desk through Ask Muse or at info@musemarbella.es.
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