There are properties close to the sea. And there are properties that make you stop scrolling.
This is one of the latter.
Set in the quiet, established neighbourhood of Grau i Platja — the residential beach district of Gandía — this four-bedroom villa offers something increasingly rare on the Costa: genuine outdoor living space, two separate living rooms, a renovated kitchen and bathroom, and walking distance to the Mediterranean. At a price that still makes sense.
The outdoor life this house offers
Step through the entrance gate and you arrive in the front courtyard — not a narrow path, but a full terracotta-tiled patio shaded by two enormous mature trees. Their canopy is complete. On a July afternoon in 35°C heat, you are sitting in cool, dappled shade at a mosaic dining table, listening to nothing in particular. Jasmine climbs the white wall of the house beside you.
This is where most of your hours will go.
The house wraps around six distinct outdoor spaces:
The shaded front courtyard — a natural outdoor dining room under tree canopy, with a mosaic-topped table for six set between two mature trees. The covered veranda alongside it has its own lounge seating — a separate, shaded sitting area with a decorative ceiling lamp, looking out across the garden.
A paellero — a built-in wood-burning outdoor kitchen under a vine-draped pergola, with an outdoor sink alongside it. Use it for paella, use it as a barbecue. This is where evenings stretch past ten, where the Spanish summer actually happens.
A side terrace with celosía — traditional Valencian ornate lattice walls that filter the afternoon light and keep the space private and cool.
The private pool — generous in size, with a decorative mosaic border and a backdrop of deep-pink bougainvillea climbing the garden wall. Orange and lemon trees grow alongside it, with fruit on the branches.
An upper solarium terrace — open to the sky, with mountain views.
Six spaces. Most properties at this price point offer one.
Inside the house
Stand in the original salon and open the arched glass doors. The two mature trees fill the frame. The mosaic table. The brick wall. The afternoon light through the leaves. You are inside, but the garden is right there — not at the end of a long garden, not behind a wall, but framed in the arch of the door like a painting. This is the first thing you see when you walk into this room, and it does not get old.
The salon itself has the original terracotta tile floors — hexagonal, hand-laid, the kind that no longer gets installed — and a corner fireplace for December. A ceiling fan for August. The proportions are right.
The second living room is a different register entirely: a long, open-plan space with wood laminate floors, a large corner sofa, a dining table for six, and a modern pellet stove against the wall. Two complete living zones — a quiet room and a family room, or a sitting room and a dining room. At 187 m², the house has room for both.
The kitchen has been fully renovated: white shaker cabinets, dark granite worktops, built-in oven, extractor hood, dishwasher, and a large American fridge-freezer. The kitchen window looks directly onto the courtyard garden. You cook with trees in the window.
The main bathroom has also been fully renovated: large-format grey tiles, full-size bathtub with glass screen, bidet, and a floating wooden vanity with a bowl sink. The finish is clean and modern.
Four bedrooms, each with double beds and fitted wardrobes. The key rooms — kitchen, bathroom, main living-dining area — have all been done. The bedrooms are functional and liveable, with scope to add your own mark where it matters to you.
The neighbourhood
Grau i Platja is not a resort. It is where Gandía’s locals live — a compact, walkable neighbourhood of around 7,000 permanent residents, with supermarkets, restaurants, bars, and a pharmacy within minutes. The Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) has a campus here, which means the neighbourhood stays active year-round — not just in July and August when everywhere on the Costa looks better than it is.
The beach — Platja de Gandía, consistently rated among the best on the Valencia coast — is a short walk away. Gandía city centre, with its hospital, train station, and full range of services, is ten minutes by car. Trains from Gandía to Valencia take under an hour.
Why this property stands out
A walled private villa. A pool. Six outdoor living zones. Two living rooms. A renovated kitchen and bathroom. Walking distance to one of Spain’s best beaches. In a neighbourhood with a genuine year-round community.
At €423,000, properties with this combination of space, location, and condition do not appear often. When they do, they don’t stay available long.
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