What you can buy at Las Colinas: villas, apartments and plots

The resort is built in phases, each with its own architectural language, but almost everything falls into one of three groups. Which one is right for you depends less on budget than on how you plan to use the place.

Villas

Detached houses on their own plots, typically single or split-level, with private pools and gardens. Modern Mediterranean architecture: flat roofs, deep terraces, a lot of glass, designed to be lived in from the outside in. The plots vary enormously in size, aspect and privacy, and so do the prices.

Suits: people making this their main home, or their long-season home, and anyone who wants outside space that belongs to them alone.

Apartments and townhouses

Grouped around shared pools and gardens, generally two or three bedrooms, usually with a large terrace and often a solarium. Lock-up-and-leave in the real sense: you close the door, and the community looks after everything outside it until you come back.

Suits: anyone splitting the year between here and home, and anyone who would rather spend their time on the terrace than maintaining a garden they only see for four months.

Plots

Building your own is possible, within the resort's architectural rules. This is the slowest route and the most involved, and it is the only one that gets you exactly what you want. Expect the design approval process to be genuinely strict, which is precisely why the resort looks the way it does.

Suits: people who have done this before, or who have a clear picture and the patience to see it through.

A note on the second-hand market

Resale stock here is thin, and the good ones move quickly. There is no continuous supply the way there is in a large coastal town: it is a finite community, and in any given month there may be only a handful of properties genuinely available in your bracket. That is worth knowing before you plan a viewing trip, because the honest answer to "what will be available in three months" is that nobody knows.