A day at Sea Gardens: November by the sea in Villajoyosa, from coffee on the terrace to dinner on your own roof

This is an ordinary day for a couple who have moved to Sea Gardens for good and still work. The building stands in the Gasparot district, every flat in it has two bedrooms and two bathrooms, and the entry price is 385,000 euros excl. VAT with a parking space and a storage room. The day first, the numbers at the end.

8:00. The terrace and the walk to the sea

Every flat in the building has its own terrace, and on the ground floor it reaches 50.8 m². That is no longer a balcony but a second living room in the open air: a breakfast table, armchairs, room for guests. Inside, the flat is warm in the morning: aerothermal heating works in winter, air conditioning cools in summer, the windows are double glazed.

At eight the couple go out with the dog. Paraíso beach is 650 metres away, an eight-minute walk: a morning loop by the sea with no car and no hunting for a parking space. Back home, the dog goes to its own spa downstairs, and the mud from its paws stays there rather than on the living room floor.

9:00. Work without the commute

At nine each of them has an office. She goes down to the building's coworking space: her own desk and no journey. He stays upstairs, in the second bedroom, which works as a study on weekdays. There are two bathrooms in the flat, so there is no morning queue even on a day when both are rushing to their first call.

12:30. The market and the coloured houses in town

On Thursdays the lunch break is longer. The car is downstairs in the covered garage, in its own space, and five minutes later the couple are in town, by the covered market on Canalejas street: it is about two kilometres away. It has more than twenty stalls: fish and seafood, vegetables, bread, cured meats, wine, salted tuna and roe. The market is open from 7:30 to 14:30, and on Thursdays the town also has a street market.

After the market, a walk through the old town. Its coloured houses stand right on the Renaissance city wall, and the best known view of them opens from the bridge over the Amadorio river and from its south bank. The old town of Villajoyosa is listed as a Spanish heritage site (Bien de Interés Cultural).

Home by two. The shopping goes up from the car by lift to their floor, the kitchen comes with appliances, and lunch is cooked from what was bought an hour ago. The fish is kept for the evening.

16:00. Picking up friends

At four he drives to Alicante airport: about 45 kilometres, 35 to 40 minutes on the AP-7 motorway. Forty minutes from the airport to the front door, which is why friends fly in for a long weekend rather than once a year.

While he is on the road, she has time for the gym and the sauna downstairs. No need for a gym membership in town, and from the sauna to the flat it is a few steps.

18:00. The evening on your own roof

The sun sets at about six. By then the table upstairs is already laid.

Their flat is on the top floor, and above it is their own roof: a solarium of 69 to 91 m² for each of the five top-floor flats. With the 66.7 m² layout the solarium is larger than the flat itself. You go up by your own staircase, and everything here is yours alone: a dining table for six, two sun loungers with blankets, a string of lights along the railing.

The sky turns orange first, then dark blue. The friends come straight up from the car without unpacking. On the table, the fish bought at the market that morning, bread, wine. The talk is no longer about the flight, but about why they themselves still do not live here.

November nights are cool, about ten degrees, and by nine the blankets move from the loungers to people's shoulders. But nobody is in a hurry to go down.

22:30. A guest bedroom with its own bathroom

The friends stay the night. The study becomes a guest bedroom again, and the guests have their own bathroom: every flat in the building has two. In the morning everyone will wake up to the same coffee on the terrace, only now there are four of them.

What the building is, in short

Sea Gardens is a five-storey building with 30 flats, six per floor. All flats share one format: two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a private terrace. You choose by size and by floor: 66.7, 80.2-80.3, 85.4 or 89.5 m² of living space. In the courtyard there is an infinity pool and a second pool in the garden, children's areas and a viewpoint. The building is going up under the licence Villajoyosa town hall granted on 26 May 2026.

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Now let's do the numbers: what a day like this costs

All flats have two bedrooms; the difference is what they have outside: a terrace, or a terrace plus a roof of their own.

**My advice: start with the ground floor.** It has the best value metre in the building, 3547-3809 euros*, and the largest terraces: the metre is lower precisely because of them. Look at one layout from the bottom up: the 66.7 m² flat on the ground floor costs 385,000 euros with a 34.8 m² terrace, on the fourth floor 425,000 with 23.4 m². The metre* rises from 3793 to 4717 euros, almost a quarter. If an evening in the garden of your terrace matters more to you than the view from above, the ground floor gives you more sky for less money.

**If you want a roof of your own**, like our couple, the top floor costs from 640,000 to 750,000 euros. A metre of roof costs less than a metre of flat: from 2471 to 3557 euros. That is why the metre* on the top floor, 3614-3986 euros, is lower than on the fourth.

What you pay on top

The price comes with 10% VAT (IVA) and 1.4% stamp duty (AJD) on top, plus notary and land registry fees; I will send you the full calculation for your flat.

How you pay

A reservation of 6,000 euros. Private contract: up to 30% of the price plus VAT, the reservation counts towards it. After 12 months, another 10% plus VAT. At the deed, 60% plus VAT; if the deed comes before 12 months, 70% is paid at it.

Until the keys you pay up to 40% of the price: on a 385,000 flat that is 154,000 euros plus 15,400 of VAT on it. More than half you pay for a finished flat, before a notary. Under Spanish law, payments before handover are protected by a bank guarantee, and I make sure there is one for every transfer you make.

Who is nearby

What else is on sale in Villajoyosa with two bedrooms. Price from, area and distance for the flat each price list starts with: Orizonne II, Allonbay Hills, Orizonne and La Vila Azul.

Sea Gardens sits in the middle of this range: the entry price is 22-60 thousand more than in two neighbouring developments and 11-44 thousand less than in the other two. Where it beats the neighbours: the terrace of the entry flat is larger than at any of the four, and the storage room is already in the price, while at Orizonne and Orizonne II it is bought separately.

Who a day like this is for

For a couple moving to the sea for good and still working: coworking and a gym in the building, the beach eight minutes away, the market and the old town five minutes by car.

For a family with a child or with guests: two full bathrooms, children's areas in the courtyard, a large terrace on the ground floor.

For anyone who wants their own roof by the Mediterranean: a 69-91 m² solarium on the top floor.

If you need three bedrooms or a garden of your own, I will find you another home nearby.

Your day starts with a message

Choose where you want to end a November evening: in the garden of a ground-floor terrace or above the whole building. Write to me and I will send you the plan and the full calculation for the flat that suits you. Your price is the same as the developer's, and why you are better off with me than without me I have explained separately.