What a villa asks
Of the 2,211 distinct homes asking €3,000,000 or more in the pool, 1,819 are villas: 82% of everything on the market at that level. The middle one asks €5.25M, the spread runs €3M to €70M, and per built square metre the median is €8,402 / m², across the 1,621 listings that publish a built area. Benahavís is the dearer side: €5.95M in the middle across 525 villas, against €4.99M across 1,294 in Marbella. The property hub measures the whole market with apartments and penthouses left in; this page takes them out, and the penthouse census does the same the other way round.
As of September 2026, the median asking price of a villa listed at €3,000,000 or more in Marbella and Benahavís is €5,250,000, across 1,819 villas 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).
- Villas counted
- 1,819
- Median asking price
- €5,250,000
- Median per built m² across the 1,621 that publish a built area
- €8,402 / m²
- Marbella, median villa
- €4,987,500
- Benahavís, median villa
- €5,950,000
- Cheapest villa in the pool Marbella Golden Mile · Drumelia Real Estate
- €3,000,000
- Dearest villa in the pool La Zagaleta · Drumelia Real Estate
- €39,000,000
What the money buys
Agencies publish a built area for 1,621 of these villas, a plot size for 1,197 and a bedroom count for 1,758, so the ladder below is a median of what is published, not of what exists. From the €3–4M rung to the €10–15M rung the median villa grows 2.1x in built metres and 2.5x in plot; bedrooms barely move. The money buys land and metres, not rooms.
What a villa asks, area by area
Every published area with 10 or more homes asking €3,000,000 or more in the pool, the villa share of that stock, and the median villa asking wherever there are 10 villas to take one from. A villa counts on its own neighbourhood and on every parent up the chain, as it does on each area's own page, so the rows do not sum to 1,819. La Zagaleta leads at €10.9M in the middle; Hacienda Las Chapas closes the priced list at €3.69M.
Which urbanizaciones are villa estates
The rule is published rather than implied: a gated community where at least 90% of the homes asking €3,000,000 or more are villas, counted on 10 or more villas. 11 of the 15 gated communities measured pass it and 4 do not. Marina Puente Romano, at 0% villas, is the other end of the same measure: above the floor it is an apartment market wearing a villa postcode.
Villa estates by the rule
- La Zagaleta · 57 villas, €10,900,000 in the middle · 100%
- Cascada de Camoján · 22 villas, €8,700,000 in the middle · 100%
- La Cerquilla · 10 villas, €7,200,000 in the middle · 91%
- El Madroñal · 66 villas, €7,000,000 in the middle · 99%
- El Herrojo · 20 villas, €6,985,000 in the middle · 100%
- Marbella Club Golf Resort · 19 villas, €6,300,000 in the middle · 100%
- Los Arqueros · 18 villas, €5,247,500 in the middle · 100%
- Los Flamingos · 55 villas, €4,950,000 in the middle · 100%
- Monte Mayor · 26 villas, €4,745,000 in the middle · 100%
- Paraíso Alto · 19 villas, €4,500,000 in the middle · 95%
- Hacienda Las Chapas · 24 villas, €3,690,000 in the middle · 100%
Gated communities below the line
- La Alquería · 22 of 25 homes are villas · 88%
- La Reserva de Alcuzcuz · 12 of 14 homes are villas · 86%
- Las Lomas del Marbella Club · 20 of 24 homes are villas · 83%
- Marina Puente Romano · 0 of 10 homes are villas · 0%
How this was counted
The figures come from our own pool of sales listings: 3,492 records from 26 agency sites, observed 5 September 2026, homes only, deduplicated per municipality the same way the property hub and the area pages are, and starting at asking prices of €3,000,000, which is where the pool starts. Below that this census sees nothing and says nothing. A villa is what the pool's own type reading calls one: a listing typed villa, house, detached house, chalet or cortijo, once penthouses, townhouses, semi-detached houses and apartments are taken out. Medians are of asking prices, never of valuations or sales. Wherever a single home is named its agency listing is linked, so every figure on this page is readable at its source. The catalogue shows single listings from the same pool, with a photograph and a verdict.