A 441 m² villa with a pool, three bedrooms and sea views: €2,250,000. The plot runs to 1,100 m², and from the terraces you can see the Mediterranean, the Moraira valley and the Peñón de Ifach at Calpe. The house is not in Moraira and not in Javea — it sits on the ridge between them. Here is what that ridge is, what's around it, and why a metre costs less here than on either side.
The two towns
Moraira is ten minutes away and small: a marina, a morning market, fish restaurants along the front. There are no high-rises — they aren't allowed — so nothing blocks the view from the hills. This is where you go for coffee, for fish, for dinner by the water.
Javea is fifteen minutes away and bigger. Inland sits the old town and its narrow stone streets. On the water there's a working port with a daily fish auction, and the Arenal, where the restaurants run in an unbroken line along the promenade. Behind the town, under the Montgó, is La Sella golf club.
Two towns with different characters, and no need to choose between them.
What sits between
The coast between Moraira and Javea belongs to the municipality of Benitachell, and on the ridge stands Cumbre del Sol — a planned urbanisation of detached villas on large plots, with almost no through traffic. The houses sit high, above the coastal haze, so the sea is in full view from the plot itself. On a clear day you can see Ibiza.
What the area gives you
The everyday is on the hill, but not on foot. A supermarket, a pharmacy, a hairdresser, restaurants, a tennis and padel club and the Cañada del Sol riding centre all sit inside the urbanisation, about five minutes away by car. The development runs along the ridge, so residents drive to the shop rather than walk. The LAUDE The Lady Elizabeth School has its campus here too — a large part of why Northern European families settle on this stretch.
The cove is five minutes down. Cala del Moraig lies directly below the ridge: clear water, limestone cliffs, parking at the entrance. At one end is the Cova dels Arcs, a cave divers swim through and out into open water. The Ruta de los Acantilados starts from the sand — four kilometres along the cliff edge to the next cove. There are three coves in all: besides Moraig, there are Testos and Llebeig.
Eating. Eight Michelin stars sit within half an hour's drive. Three at Quique Dacosta in Dénia, two at BonAmb in Javea, one each at Audrey's and Orobianco in Calpe and at Peix & Brases in Dénia. Dénia itself is a UNESCO City of Gastronomy. The stars aren't really the point, though: what matters day to day are the rice restaurants, the harbour fish, the Dénia red prawn and a chiringuito at the cove.
Sport and healthcare. Golf at La Sella and in Javea. Sailing out of Moraira marina. Diving at the cave. Cyclists come for the Coll de Rates. The area hospital is in Dénia, about twenty-five minutes; there are private clinics in both Moraira and Javea.
The house itself
Magnolia stands in the Magnolias sector, in the upper part of the urbanisation. Of the 441 m² built, 240 m² is living space, 45 m² is the lower ground floor and roughly 150 m² is terrace. The plot is 1,100 m² and the house faces south.
Three bedrooms, each with its own bathroom and dressing room, two with private terraces. On the main floor: a living room with a fireplace, a kitchen open to the dining area, a guest WC and a utility room, with the terrace and pool straight off the living room and kitchen. The lower ground floor has daylight and takes a gym, a cinema room or guest quarters, whichever you want. Underfloor heating, ducted air conditioning, a garden of palms and fruit trees, private parking.
The house is finished and ready to move into — a resale, not a build. All the photographs and floor plans are on the villa's own page.
What a metre costs nearby
Below is the median price per square metre for villas in our own catalogue on 4 September 2026. These are our listings, not a valuation of the whole market — some areas hold three, others fourteen — so read the figures as an order of magnitude.
| Area | € per m² | Villas | Prices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benissa | 6,627 | 2 | €1,690,000 – €2,175,000 |
| Moraira | 6,387 | 3 | €1,980,000 – €3,950,000 |
| Fuengirola, Costa del Sol | 5,975 | 2 | €950,000 – €1,460,000 |
| Cumbre del Sol | 4,072 | 14 | €920,000 – €5,626,000 |
| Altea Hills | 3,991 | 7 | €1,650,000 – €3,450,000 |
| Javea | 3,706 | 3 | €1,285,000 – €2,950,000 |
| Estepona, Costa del Sol | 3,517 | 3 | €1,530,000 – €4,750,000 |
The short version: a metre at Cumbre del Sol costs about a third less than in Moraira — 4,072 against 6,387 — on the same coast, ten minutes apart. It does not undercut Javea, though: a metre there is cheaper still. The difference lies elsewhere. We hold fourteen villas at Cumbre del Sol, from €920,000 to €5.6M, against three in Moraira, where nothing sells below €1,980,000.
Magnolia itself works out at €5,102 per metre, above the median for its own urbanisation. The house is recent, faces south, carries 150 m² of terrace and looks out at the sea, the valley and the Ifach at once. It isn't the cheap way into the area, and it doesn't pretend to be.
Against the Costa del Sol: Fuengirola runs at €5,975 per metre in our catalogue, Estepona at €3,517. Cumbre del Sol sits between the two. Marbella is deliberately out of the table — our single villa there is €11.6M, and one house does not make a median. That in itself says something: the top of the Marbella market runs at prices the rest of the coast does not. Mallorca is out for the same reason: nothing comparable in the catalogue right now.
Where to look next
The catalogues for all three: villas at Cumbre del Sol, villas in Moraira, villas in Javea. If you want the urbanisation itself in detail — the sub-districts, who buys here, video from the air — that's on the Cumbre del Sol page.
