Pine Valley Villas

Pine Valley Villas, a collection of eighty-five three-bedroom detached villas and townhouses in Reserva del Chaparral, a forest community of more than 300,000 square metres on Mijas Costa. The development sits among the pines less than five hundred metres from the sea and borders Chaparral Golf Club, with views over the course and towards the Mediterranean.

The architecture follows a Less is More approach. Each home reinterprets the traditional pentagon-shaped silhouette, with sloping roofs shifted so that no two profiles read the same, and natural wood details that connect the facades with the surrounding forest. Large windows and sliding glass doors open the main rooms to the outside and draw natural light deep into the floor plan.

Inside, open and versatile layouts blur the line between indoors and outdoors. Kitchens come fully equipped with Balay appliances, floors are finished in porcelain stoneware and the bedrooms have fitted wardrobes. Climate control and hot water run on aerothermal technology, supported by solar panels, and a home-automation system manages lighting, climate and flood and smoke detection. Every home includes a video intercom, an armoured entrance door, two parking spaces and a storage room, as well as pre-installation for electric vehicle charging. Select villas add an infinity pool where the terrace seems to continue into the water, and a customisation programme allows finishes to be adapted before delivery.

Residents share a clubhouse with a lounge, a cocktail area with a wine cellar, a gym, and a spa and hydrotherapy zone with a sauna, a hammam and a heated indoor pool with counter-current swimming. Outside there is a second pool, an outdoor kitchen for show cooking, a zen garden with areas for meditation and yoga, a children's playground and Mediterranean gardens planted with low-water species. The community is gated, with a security entrance and perimeter video surveillance.

La Cala de Mijas, with its seafront promenade, restaurants and everyday services, is a few minutes away by car. This stretch of coast sits midway between Marbella and Malaga, and the airport can be reached in around half an hour.

The first two phases are already under construction and the third is now on the market.