Through the Orange Groves of Marbella: Properties for Sale at Los Naranjos Golf
The back nine runs between orange trees, and in February the scent of the blossom reaches the fairway. Los Naranjos was built in 1977 on an orange plantation in the valley behind Puerto Banús, and it kept both the trees and their name. If you want to buy here, this page starts with the properties for sale at Los Naranjos Golf: one new development within a kilometre, from about 473,000 euros, each with the measured metres to the course.
I live in Estepona and have accompanied buyers along this coast since 2019. Nueva Andalucía is the most famous golf address in Spain and the most tightly built: the valley filled up decades ago, so the properties for sale at Los Naranjos Golf are few and expensive, and worth understanding before you fall for the postcode.
The properties for sale at Los Naranjos Golf, by the metre
Our own measurement of 15 October 2026 counts one new development within a kilometre of the course and nine within 1.5 kilometres. The valley was built out decades ago, so new schemes appear on plots that come free, and they are small and quickly sold. The apartments for sale at Los Naranjos Golf start at about 499,000 euros and the villas for sale at Los Naranjos Golf reach 5.78 million.
The distances below are measured to the nearest edge of this course, not to whichever course happens to be closest, so a figure of 1.4 kilometres means exactly that — a five-minute drive or a twenty-minute walk through the valley.
New developments near Los Naranjos Golf
In a valley this tightly built, the honest question is not which project is best but which one exists when you are ready. Supply here is a handful of schemes at any time, and the gap between them in price reflects the plot rather than the building: a villa on a large plot near the fairways costs ten times an apartment two streets away, and both are described as Nueva Andalucía.
The new developments at Los Naranjos Golf and its neighbours divide into two kinds. There are the small infill buildings of twelve to thirty apartments, usually with a pool and a gym and a service charge to match, and there are the villa schemes on released plots, where you buy the plot and a design rather than a finished home. The first are ready sooner and easier to let; the second are what most buyers picture when they say Nueva Andalucia, and they take two years.
What is worth checking on every one of them is the surroundings. Plots in the valley are released one at a time, so the empty ground next door today may be a building site in two years. I check the planning status of the neighbouring parcels before anyone reserves, because in a built-out valley that is where the surprises are.
The wider choice in the municipality is listed under new developments in Marbella, and the neighbouring course on the hill is covered in the guide to La Quinta Golf.
Los Naranjos Golf is a Robert Trent Jones course from 1977
The architect who built Sotogrande, Las Brisas, Valderrama and La Duquesa also drew this one. The brief was a classic championship course with wide fairways and large greens, laid out across about 70 hectares of gently undulating ground with a river running through it and an orange plantation on top.
It plays to par 72 over 6,603 yards, which is full length without being brutal, and the back nine is the part everybody remembers: holes threading between the groves, with the Sierra Blanca standing over the valley. The club has been through several hands since — sold in 1982, sold again in 1989 and turned into a members' club with a new clubhouse in 1991, and in members' ownership since 2007, with steady improvements to the course ever since.
| Course data | The course in Nueva Andalucía |
|---|---|
| Opened | 1977 |
| Course architect | Robert Trent Jones senior |
| Holes and par | 18 holes, par 72 |
| Length | 6,603 yards, about 6,038 m |
| Ground | About 70 hectares, gently undulating, with a river through it |
| Character | Wide fairways, large greens; the back nine runs through orange groves |
| Clubhouse | Opened 1991, members' club since |
| Position | The golf valley behind Puerto Banús |
| Green fee | The club quotes by season |
Trent Jones courses are built to be played from the right tee: forward, they are generous and pleasant; from the back, the same holes ask serious questions. That is why a course of this age still works for a family where the handicaps run from six to thirty-six, and why it remains the valley's most-played layout.
How Los Naranjos Golf fits into the week
Nueva Andalucía is a valley of golf courses with a marina at the bottom of it. Everything is within ten minutes: the first tee, the supermarket, the beach and the restaurants of Puerto Banús.
- Four courses within two kilometres: Aloha, Las Brisas, Magna and La Quinta, each with its own character.
- The orange groves: the back nine in February, when the blossom is out, is worth the membership on its own.
- Puerto Banús: ten minutes south for the marina, the restaurants and the beach clubs.
- San Pedro de Alcántara: five minutes west for the high street, the hospital and the boulevard.
- Playing year: golf in every month, with the valley sheltered from the worst of the wind.
If you want to compare it with the other courses on this coast before you choose a home, the new developments on the golf courses between Sotogrande and Marbella are collected on their own page, each with the distance to its nearest course.
Four more courses within two kilometres of Los Naranjos Golf
This is the densest championship golf in Spain. We measured boundary to boundary from the outlines of every course on this coast, so these are real distances across the ground and not driving times.
- Aloha Golf, about 759 m: Javier Arana's last course, and the valley's other great name.
- Real Club de Golf Las Brisas, about 1.4 km: another Trent Jones design, host of Spanish and World Cup events.
- Magna Marbella, about 2.0 km, and La Quinta, about 2.0 km: the hillside courses above the valley.
- La Dama de Noche, about 2.7 km: the floodlit course, for a round after dinner in summer.
Five full-length courses inside a three-kilometre circle, all of them with their own clubhouse and their own following: that density is the reason this valley has held its reputation for fifty years.
Living beside Los Naranjos Golf: Nueva Andalucía and Puerto Banús
The valley is a residential island between the mountains and the marina. It has its own supermarkets, its own Saturday market in the bullring car park, its own schools and a dozen restaurants, and it empties of traffic the moment you turn off the coast road. The streets are named after the courses and the old farms, and the bullring at its centre is a landmark rather than an arena: the market happens around it on Saturday mornings and half the valley turns up.
The valley also has a rhythm that surprises first-time visitors. It is busy from March to June and again from September to November, when the golf is at its best and the tee sheets fill; in August much of it decamps to the beach, and in January it is so quiet that you can hear the irrigation running at dawn. Owners who live here year-round tend to describe the winter as the reason they stayed.
Puerto Banús is ten minutes south with the marina, the beach clubs and the shopping; Marbella old town twenty minutes east; San Pedro de Alcántara five minutes west with the hospital, the high street and the boulevard over the old motorway. The international schools of the western coast are all within a quarter of an hour.
Málaga airport is about 60 kilometres east on the motorway, and Gibraltar about 70 west. Nueva Andalucía is the address most international buyers name first when they think of Marbella golf, and the homes for sale near Los Naranjos Golf carry exactly that premium.
What the properties for sale at Los Naranjos Golf cost
Nueva Andalucía is one of the most expensive residential areas in Spain, and the figures show it. The public price index recorded 6,169 euros per square metre for existing homes in the valley in September 2026, 3.5% above the same month a year earlier and 69.3% above the level of five years ago. For the municipality of Marbella our own survey of 14 October 2026 put the New Build median at 7,960 euros per square metre, across 99 projects and 335 units.
Against that, Estepona stood at 5,118 euros and Benahavís at 6,709. In square metres, a budget of a million buys roughly 126 here and about 195 at the western end of our area — which is the trade this valley asks for, and it is worth making consciously rather than by default. The properties for sale at Los Naranjos Golf are bought for the address, the history and the five courses in walking distance, and those are good reasons; they are simply not the cheapest way to own a golf home on this coast.
Holiday letting earns at the top of our range in Marbella. Our own analysis of all whole homes let to holiday guests in the municipality, over the 36 months to August 2026, measured 208 euros a night typically and 325 euros in the upper quarter, with occupancy between 38% and 63% over the year, from 5,166 active holiday homes. Across a full year that works out at 32,769 to 56,828 euros of revenue for a home let all year round. Measured against valley purchase prices, the yield is modest; buyers here are usually choosing the address rather than the return. Those are measured figures for comparable homes in the neighbourhood, not a promise for a particular property, and how they fit into a wider plan is set out in my guide to investing in Spanish property.
See the properties for sale at Los Naranjos Golf on one morning
Eighteen holes through the orange trees, then whatever the valley has that week. With supply this tight, a viewing day for the properties for sale at Los Naranjos Golf is about judging rather than comparing, and it is worth seeing one scheme in the valley and one twenty minutes west on the same trip so the price difference becomes real. You can buy off-plan and choose the finishes, or buy a home that is ready to move into; both come up here, just rarely at once.
Two days are enough, and I would use the second for the comparison rather than for more viewings: play Aloha or Las Brisas in the morning, then drive thirty minutes west and look at what the same budget buys beside Atalaya or El Paraiso. Some buyers come back certain that only the valley will do; others discover that the golf is just as good and the terrace twice the size. Both decisions are easier after the drive.
Bring your questions about community fees, plot boundaries and what is planned next door, and bring an honest answer about what you are buying: the valley, or the golf. An overview of how buying new works on this coast is in my guide to new developments on the Costa del Sol.
Frequently asked questions
Where is Los Naranjos Golf in Marbella?
The course lies in Nueva Andalucía, the golf valley behind Puerto Banús, in the municipality of Marbella. The marina is about ten minutes south, Marbella old town twenty minutes east, San Pedro de Alcántara five minutes west and Málaga airport around 60 kilometres away.
Which properties for sale at Los Naranjos Golf are new builds?
All the ones we list. Our own measurement of 15 October 2026 counts one new development within a kilometre of the course and nine within 1.5 kilometres, because the valley was largely built out decades ago. The properties for sale at Los Naranjos Golf run from about 499,000 euros to 5.78 million.
Who designed the course in Nueva Andalucía?
Robert Trent Jones senior, who also laid out Sotogrande, Las Brisas, Valderrama and La Duquesa on this coast. Los Naranjos opened in 1977 as a classic championship design with wide fairways and large greens, par 72 over 6,603 yards.
Why is the course called Los Naranjos?
Because of the orange plantation that stood on the land before the course did. The property covered about 70 hectares of gently undulating ground with a river running through it and orange trees across it, and the back nine still threads between the groves that give the course its name.
What do the properties for sale at Los Naranjos Golf cost?
The properties for sale at Los Naranjos Golf start at about 499,000 euros for an apartment in the valley and reach 5.78 million for a villa. Our own survey of 14 October 2026 put the New Build median in Marbella at 7,960 euros per square metre, against 5,118 in Estepona.
Which other golf courses are near Los Naranjos?
Four more within two kilometres, measured across the ground: Aloha about 759 metres, Las Brisas about 1.4 kilometres, Magna Marbella about 2.0 and La Quinta about 2.0. La Dama de Noche, the floodlit course, follows at 2.7 kilometres.
Sources & official links
- Today's Golfer: Los Naranjos Golf Club course data and designer (checked 15.10.2026)
- Los Naranjos Golf Club: the history of the course and the estate (checked 15.10.2026)
- Andalucía Golf: Los Naranjos, one of Robert Trent Jones best designs (checked 15.10.2026)
