A beachside villa roughly 100 metres from the sea in Paraíso Barronal, on the Estepona side of the New Golden Mile. The plot is completely flat, planted and private, with a large pool and a covered terrace off the living room that takes the shade in July. The house works as it is. It is fully functional, well maintained by the current owners, and someone could move in and use it this summer without touching anything. But the price is set against what it could become rather than what it is, and in this community that is a familiar story: a lot of the villas around it have already been taken down to the structure and rebuilt as contemporary houses. The template exists, and so do the local builders who have done it before. Inside, a double-height entrance hall opens into a large living and dining room with partial underfloor heating. The kitchen is a proper gourmet kitchen with its own pantry, and the two-car garage connects directly through the utility room into the kitchen — a small thing that matters every time you carry shopping in. Two generous bedrooms on the ground floor share a bathroom. Upstairs, the master has a walk-in wardrobe and en-suite bathroom, and the second bedroom is also en suite. Both upper bedrooms open onto large private open terraces. What you are buying here is a flat plot, 100 metres from the sea, in a community where modernised houses sell well — with a perfectly usable home on it in the meantime. That is a different proposition from paying finished-product prices for someone else's renovation. 295 m² built on a 900 m² plot. Four bedrooms, three bathrooms, private pool, two-car garage.