The census
87 penthouses of 2,211 distinct homes asking €3,000,000 or more, which is 4 per cent of the market at that level. The middle one asks €4.30M; the cheapest €3M, the dearest €24M. Per built metre the middle asks €12,558 / m², measured across the 85 listings that publish a built area. Benahavís supplies 5 of the 87, which is why the Marbella figure below is the one worth reading.
As of September 2026, the median asking price of a penthouse listed at €3,000,000 or more in Marbella and Benahavís is €4,299,500, across 87 penthouses for sale (Marbella Wire).
As of September 2026, a penthouse in Marbella and Benahavís asks a median of €12,558 / m², 1.49× a villa's €8,402 / m², across 87 penthouses and 1,819 villas for sale (Marbella Wire).
- Penthouses counted
- 87
- Median asking price
- €4,299,500
- Median per built m² across the 85 that publish it
- €12,558 / m²
- Median built area across the 85 that publish it
- 363 m²
- Median terrace across the 63 that publish it
- 196 m²
- Marbella, median penthouse
- €4,447,500
- Cheapest penthouse in the pool Marbella Golden Mile · Homerun Brokers
- €3,000,000
- Dearest penthouse in the pool Puerto Banús · Marbella Propiedades
- €24,000,000
What the money buys
The same six rungs the villa census uses, so a band means the same thing on both pages. Two things stand out. Built area does not climb steadily with price the way it does for villas: €3–4M buys 304 m², €4–5M buys 463 m², and €5–7M drops back to 353 m², because at that level the money starts going into the address and the terrace rather than the floor. And 0 rung is empty, , so on this reading there is nothing on the market between those two figures at all.
Where they are
Penthouses cluster where the blocks are, not where the plots are. Only 3 of 12 areas carry 10 or more of them, so only 3 get a price: Golden Mile with 45 at €4.90M, and Puerto Banús with 14 at €4.29M. Everywhere else the count is published and the price is not, which is the same threshold the villa census applies. An area's row counts a home on every page it belongs to, so the rows do not sum to 87.
| Area | Median penthouse | Penthouse share | Per built m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden MileMarbella | €4,900,000 | 10% 45 of 439 homes are penthouses | €16,910 / m² |
| Puerto BanúsMarbella | €4,295,000 | 16% 14 of 88 homes are penthouses | €16,621 / m² |
| Nueva AndalucíaMarbella | €3,487,500 | 2% 10 of 405 homes are penthouses | €10,701 / m² |
| Marbella EastMarbella | fewer than 10 penthouses, no price published | 3% 9 of 318 homes are penthouses | |
| Puente RomanoMarbella | fewer than 10 penthouses, no price published | 9% 5 of 57 homes are penthouses | |
| La AlqueríaBenahavís | fewer than 10 penthouses, no price published | 8% 2 of 25 homes are penthouses | |
| Las Lomas del Marbella ClubMarbella | fewer than 10 penthouses, no price published | 8% 2 of 24 homes are penthouses | |
| Los MonterosMarbella | fewer than 10 penthouses, no price published | 4% 2 of 50 homes are penthouses | |
| AlohaMarbella | fewer than 10 penthouses, no price published | 5% 1 of 22 homes are penthouses | |
| Las BrisasMarbella | fewer than 10 penthouses, no price published | 5% 1 of 22 homes are penthouses | |
| Marina Puente RomanoMarbella | fewer than 10 penthouses, no price published | 10% 1 of 10 homes are penthouses | |
| Sierra BlancaMarbella | fewer than 10 penthouses, no price published | 1% 1 of 76 homes are penthouses |
How to read it
These are asking prices from 15 agency sites, deduplicated per municipality, filtered to €3,000,000 and above, taken on 5 September 2026. A penthouse here is a listing whose type or address says penthouse or ático, tested before every other type, so a duplex penthouse counts as a penthouse and not as an apartment. Nothing is a valuation and nothing is a sale price. The wider market is on the property hub; the villa side is the villa census; individual listings we have written about are in the catalogue.