IF YOU happen to have a spare €32 million floating around in your wallet, you could become the owner of Spain's most expensive house currently on the market – a 10-bedroom ultra-modern villa on the exclusive Zagaleta urbanisation in Benahavís (Málaga province).
Set in two-and-a-half acres of land and measuring 3,000 square metres (32,292 square feet, or three-quarters of an acre of indoor space), Villa Cullinan (in the above photograph, from YouTube) boasts an indoor and an outdoor swimming pool, 14 bathrooms, and its own gym.
But if you're seeking one with its own spa and salt-water swimming pool, gym, simulation golfing green, garage with space for 12 cars and 17 bathrooms, you'll find one on the same urbanisation at a cheaper price: €29m, making it the second-most expensive home currently on the national market.
The third-, fourth- and fifth-most pricey residences on sale at present are in Puigpunyent (Mallorca), a palace of 2,800 square metres (30,139 square feet) with 14 bathrooms, a lift, a library, and even a private chapel, within 203 acres of land and an asking price of €26.5m; in Valldemossa, a 17th-century rural mansion with 80 bedrooms, 6,000 square metres (64,584 square feet) and 741 acres of land, with a price tag of €23m; and in Port d'Andratx, a seven-bedroomed villa right on the seafront going for €22m.
Joint number six is in Penáguila, Alicante province, an old farmhouse of 1,350 square metres (14,531 square feet), and a 2,400-square-metre (25,833-square-foot) villa in Tui, Pontevedra province (Galicia, both on sale for €20m; number seven, a slightly better bargain at €19.9m, is 3,152 square metres (33,928 square feet) and in Marbella, where number eight, going for €19.5m and measuring 3,250 square metres (34,983 square feet), is also based.
Closing the top 10 at just over €19m is a 1,000-square-metre (10,764-square-foot) country house in Hornachuelos, Córdoba province (Andalucía).
By region, some of the most expensive homes on sale are a serious bargain compared with the above top 10 – in the Canary Islands, for example, the 400-square-metre (4,306-square-foot) villa in Maspalomas, San Bartolomé de Tirajana, will only set you back €9.9m.
If you want to make your millions stretch even farther, head north: For a mere €8.25m, you can net a 2,000-square-metre (21,528-square-foot) house in the coastal town of Gijón, in Asturias; for €4.2m, a house of 746 square metres (8,030 square feet) in Noja is the priciest in Cantabria, and a 600-square-metre (6,458-square-foot) house in Sallent de Gállego in the Pyrénéen province of Huesca (Aragón) is a snip at just €2.5m.
On the other hand, you may just not have enough in the bank to entertain any of these and prefer to spend a more modest amount – if so, apartments in Benahavís start at five-figure sums, and villas for under €300,000, or even under a quarter of a million.
And plenty more nationwide are cheaper still, without skimping on quality – see over a quarter of a million listed in our Property for Sale section to get some inspiration.
