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Villa Noruega, Altea Hills

ALTEA HILLS · COSTA BLANCA · SPAIN

A new four-bedroom villa on a hillside plot above the bay of Altea. Three floors joined by a lift, an infinity pool, and a 280 m² floor cut into the slope beneath the living rooms — most of it given over to a gym, a spa and a cinema. One villa, one buyer, reserved off-plan and finished to your choices.

Built and sold by Elite Contracting Group Ltd — an English company, registered in London, company number 14046093, building in Spain.

€1,950,000 until structural completion · €20,000 reserves it · Handover Q3 2028

The price rises to €2,050,000 at structural completion, targeted Q3 2027. Until then every finish is still yours to choose. Spanish purchase taxes and fees are payable on top — see below.

Computer-generated impression. The villa is not yet built.

The facts, before anything else

• 547 m² built over three levels, on a 908 m² plot
• Four bedrooms, four bathrooms
• 280 m² lower floor — gym, sauna, steam room, cinema, and the garage behind them
• €1,950,000 until structural completion. Spanish purchase taxes and fees on top
• Q3 2028 handover, with keys after the first-occupation licence
• Gated estate — Altea Hills: 24-hour security, private roads, large plots

Three levels, four bedrooms

The house steps down the hillside on three levels with a lift running through all of them. Living and kitchen on the entrance floor, opening onto the covered terrace and the pool. Bedrooms above, the master with its own 34 m² terrace. The lower floor is dug in beneath them, so the gym and the spa sit in cool, quiet space with the garage behind them.

Ground floor — 109.9 m²
Entrance hall, living and dining room, kitchen with island and pantry, a guest bedroom with its own bathroom, lift, and a covered terrace running out to the pool.

First floor — 157.1 m²
Master suite with dressing area, en-suite and a 34 m² private terrace. Two further bedrooms and a family bathroom. The landing opens over the double-height stair.

Lower floor — 280.2 m²
Garage for two cars behind the door, and the wellness hall beyond it: gym, sauna, steam room, cinema, shower and changing, plant and laundry. Reached by lift or by the stair.

Outside — 908 m² plot
Infinity pool with lighting, a pergola over the lounging terrace, and landscaped gardens on irrigation.

The rendered façade, local stone cladding and timber slat screens. Computer-generated impression. The villa is not yet built.

The kitchen, with island, pantry run and integrated appliances. Computer-generated impression. The villa is not yet built.

The master bedroom, looking through to the en-suite. Computer-generated impression. The villa is not yet built.

The floor below

Most villas on this coast put a garage under the house and stop there. This one digs out 280 m², parks two cars in one corner of it, and gives the rest to a single wellness hall.

A gym area at one end. A sauna and a steam room off it, with a rain shower and an ice-bucket shower in the hall between them, and a changing room with its own shower and WC. An acoustically treated cinema room with AV installed opens off the same hall. Plant and laundry sit behind, so nothing you can hear is anywhere near anything you use.

Because it is cut into the slope rather than added on top, it costs nothing in view and nothing in terrace. It will be the coolest part of the house in August and the quietest in February.

The sauna, looking through to the gym. Computer-generated impression. The villa is not yet built.

Altea Hills, above the bay

Altea Hills is a gated hillside estate: 24-hour security, wide private roads and large plots, a few minutes above the old town of Altea and the Campomanes marina. Plot AH-482D is on Calle Noruega, which is where the house gets its name. Winters are mild in the shelter of the Sierra Bernia, and the terraces hold sun from morning to evening.

• Altea old town, marina and beaches — about 10 minutes
• Albir promenade and the Sierra Helada park — about 10 minutes
• Two golf courses, and Benidorm — 10 to 15 minutes
• Alicante–Elche airport — about an hour by car

A northern European corner of Spain

Altea sits beside l’Alfàs del Pi and Albir, on the stretch of coast northern Europe has been buying into for fifty years. More non-resident buyers in Alicante province are Dutch than any other nationality, and Altea is one of the towns they buy in. Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Belgian, German and British families have been here longer.

The infrastructure that comes with that is real and it is close. Den Norske Skolen Costa Blanca in l’Alfàs del Pi has taught the Norwegian curriculum since 1972 and is about ten minutes away. There are Scandinavian clinics, shops and clubs around Albir and l’Alfàs. Alicante–Elche flies direct to Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen among other northern European cities — tell us the airport you fly from and we will send you the current direct routes and how they change with the season.

The whole purchase runs in English, start to finish. If you would rather take advice in Dutch, Norwegian or Swedish, tell us and we will look for Spanish lawyers and tax advisers who work in that language.

Computer-generated impression. The villa is not yet built.

Spanish shell, London finish

The finish is where villas on this coast usually disappoint. The frame goes up beautifully, and then the joinery does not line through, the tiling runs out at the wrong wall, and the snagging list is still open two years later. We have split the job so that does not happen here.

Stage one — established Alicante contractors. Shell and core is built by established local contractors who know this terrain, this council and these inspectors: excavation, retaining walls, concrete frame, roofs, façades and glazing. All of it built to the licensed project, and certified stage by stage as it completes by the project’s technical architect. We choose those contractors and we hold the contract with them, so if one of them is slow or wrong it is our problem to fix and not yours. The technical architect is appointed by us, as Spanish practice requires — which is exactly why your own lawyer should see every certificate before a payment moves against it.

Stage two — Elite’s London fit-out team. Then our own London team and finishing trades come out: joinery and wardrobes, kitchen and bathroom installation, lighting, AV and smart home, tiling and decoration. Built to the tolerances and the snagging standard of prime London residential work, because it is the same people who set them.

We have already done this exact job on this coast. At a private villa in Benidorm the shell was built locally and Elite did the fit-out, to a specification agreed in London with a London client. Villa Noruega is the same split — with the plot, the design and the build risk on our side of it as well.

Why it matters that we are an English company

You are buying an unbuilt house in a country whose language, contracts and building process are not your own. The usual arrangement is a chain: a Spanish promoter, a selling agent, a building company nobody introduces you to, and an address that answers slowly.

Be clear about what British registration does and does not change. The contract for the house is Spanish and it is signed before a Spanish notary. That does not change, and anyone who tells you otherwise is guessing.

What changes is who is on the other side of it. Elite Contracting Group Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 14046093 — accounts, directors and filing history public at Companies House, so you can read them tonight without asking us. It bought plot AH-482D in January 2025 and holds it in its own name; your lawyer can confirm that at the Spanish land registry before you pay anything. It is a London main contractor: the same business that refurbishes and rebuilds prime and super-prime houses in central London. The site managers are ours and the finishing trades are ours. And it has a London business, a London office and a London reputation to lose if it treats you badly — which is a form of security that no document gives you.

One manager. Elite runs every trade and gives you one English-speaking contact from reservation to keys.
Costs controlled in-house. We measure, value and cost-report our own work rather than handing it to somebody else. Cost and programme are tracked weekly, and you get a photo report every month.
Fixed price. Your price is fixed at contract. Build-cost overruns are Elite’s problem, not yours.

The same team, the same finish — our London work

Fitzroy Place and Porchester Terrace — full residential refurbishments. 18 Hans Crescent, Knightsbridge — a super-prime house. 57 Cromwell Road — external maintenance and façade restoration to a diplomatic building: stucco, portico and balustrades. That is the standard the fit-out here is measured against. Ask, and we will walk you round one of them in London, or show you the work on a call. See our London work.

What is included, and what you choose

This is the specification the price is built on. The full written version is issued with the private purchase contract, and your lawyer gets it before you sign anything.

Structure and envelope. Reinforced-concrete frame. Insulated flat roofs. Rendered façades with local stone cladding and timber slat screens.
Windows and doors. Minimal-frame aluminium sliding doors and windows with a thermal break. Glass balustrades to the terraces.
Comfort and energy. Aerothermal heating and cooling. Underfloor heating to the living floors. Solar panels and mechanical ventilation.
Kitchen and bathrooms. Designer kitchen with island and integrated appliances. Four bathrooms in stone and porcelain with concealed brassware.
Wellness and cinema. Sauna, steam room, rain shower and ice-bucket shower, gym area, and an acoustically treated cinema room with AV.
Outside and technology. Infinity pool with lighting, pergola, landscaped gardens with irrigation, lift to all floors, smart home, data and CCTV.

What is not included. Loose furniture, gym equipment, art and the planting arrangements shown in the renders. The renders show one way the house could be finished. The written specification is what you are buying, and where the two differ the specification wins.

What you choose. Reserve before the frame is up and the finishes are still open to you: kitchen doors, worktops and appliances; bathroom stone and porcelain, brassware and sanitaryware; floor finishes; joinery and wardrobe interiors; lighting, AV and smart-home; pool and garden lighting. We set the selection dates against the programme so a choice never holds the build up, and we price any change before you commit to it. Those dates are real: once the build passes a stage, the choices attached to it close. That is the difference between the two prices — reserve now and every decision about how this house is finished is still yours to make.

Plan by Arquium Arquitectura, as submitted with the licence application. Subject to the final construction drawings.

Plan by Arquium Arquitectura, as submitted with the licence application. Subject to the final construction drawings.

Plan by Arquium Arquitectura, as submitted with the licence application. Subject to the final construction drawings.

You pay as the villa rises

€20,000 reserves it. After the contract, every further payment is triggered by a stage of work being finished and certified, not by a date in a diary.

The third column is cash, and it adds up to the price. Nothing is counted twice. Spanish purchase taxes are payable on top of these figures — see What is payable on top of the price. These are indicative terms and the private purchase contract confirms them.

The two prices

€1,950,000 — until structural completion, with every finish still open to you.
€2,050,000 — from structural completion, with fewer choices left to make.

Those are our asking prices at each stage of the build. They are not a valuation and not a forecast of anything. There is one villa: the first person to reserve is the one who chooses the kitchen.

From reservation to keys

On reservation — villa withdrawn from the market; contract and specification drafted. Your part: instruct your lawyer, apply for your NIE.
Q1 2027 — building licence expected from Altea council; private purchase contract signed. Your part: 20% paid.
April 2027 — start on site: excavation, retaining walls, foundations. Your part: layout options confirmed.
Q3 2027 — concrete frame and slabs complete; structural completion, and the price step. Your part: 15% paid; finish selections open.
Q4 2027 — roofs, windows and façade; the house goes watertight. Your part: 10% paid; kitchen and bathrooms chosen.
Q1–Q2 2028 — services and plaster, then the London team arrives for the fit-out. Your part: 5% paid; site visit and AV choices.
Q3 2028 — first-occupation licence, snagging cleared, deed at the notary. Your part: 50% paid, keys handed over.

Sixteen months on site. You get a photo report every month and you are welcome on site at every stage. These dates are targets, not promises. The licence date is set by Altea council and not by us, and everything after it moves with it. We will tell you the moment it moves.

Where your money stands today

Off-plan buyers in Spain have a statutory protection scheme. What matters is exactly when it starts, and that is the part most pages skate over. Here it is plainly.

What the law requires, and from when. Spanish law — Ley 38/1999, as amended by Ley 20/2015 — requires a developer to hold buyers’ pre-handover payments in an account used only for that development, and to secure each payment individually so that it comes back to the buyer with interest if the house is not delivered. That duty runs from the grant of the building licence.

The licence for this villa has not been granted. The application is lodged with Altea council — file 4950/2026, filed on 24 July 2026 — and a decision is expected in the first quarter of 2027. Until the council grants it, the statutory scheme does not apply to Villa Noruega. We would rather tell you that than let you assume otherwise, and you should treat any off-plan seller who tells you differently with some care.

So, today. Before the licence, the only payment you can make is the €20,000 reservation, and it sits outside the statutory scheme because the scheme has not started. What covers it is the reservation agreement, in writing. Read it, and have your own lawyer read it before you sign. Ask in writing what happens to the €20,000 if the council refuses the licence, who holds the money, and in what account — those are fair questions on any reservation anywhere, and you should get straight answers.

Ask what happens if the licence is late rather than refused. The council sets that date, not us, and a six-month wait can become longer. A long-stop — a date after which you can walk away and be repaid — is a reasonable thing for you to ask for and a reasonable thing for us to agree. Raise it before you reserve, not after.

The 20% does not fall due until the licence is granted. Before you transfer it, the individual security Spanish law requires for that payment has to be in place, and your lawyer should see the document that provides it. Do not send a contract-stage payment against an assurance. Send it against a document.

If the house is late, or if it never arrives. Once the statutory security is in place, that is the thing that returns your money, with interest, if the house is not delivered at all. Late delivery is a different question and it is answered in the private purchase contract, which sets a delivery date and what follows if we miss it. Read that clause, and have your lawyer negotiate it. We would rather you did that than take our word for the programme.

After completion. Spanish law provides for ten years of cover on the structure of a new home, three years on services and installations, and one year on finishes. Those run from completion of the house, not from your reservation. Your lawyer should confirm what cover is in place for this build before you sign the purchase contract.

Who you are dealing with

Before you send anyone money, it is worth knowing exactly who is who.

Elite Contracting Group Ltd — London. Registered in England and Wales, company number 14046093. Main contractor and consultancy: super-prime and high-end residential, design and build, project management and cost control. This is the company that holds plot AH-482D, the company that carries the build risk, and the company named on your contract.

Elite Contracting Group Spain, and Lux View Construction — Costa Blanca. Our Spanish companies. They carry the local side of the work: procurement from Alicante suppliers, site management, and the day-to-day dealing with the trades, the town hall and the inspectors. Spanish building work is run by people who are in Spain and it is run in Spanish, so that you never have to be.

Arquium Arquitectura — architect. Design and site direction on Villa Noruega. Arquium took the scheme through the licence application. The project’s technical architect certifies each stage as it completes; that certificate is what releases each stage payment, rather than an invoice from us. Both are appointed by the developer — by us — which is the ordinary arrangement in Spain and the reason the next paragraph exists.

A joint venture with a Spanish law firm — and what that means for you. Elite has a joint venture with a Spanish law firm that handles title checks, NIE applications, notary appointments and land registry work for buyers. We are telling you at the front because it matters: that firm is connected to the seller. It is not your independent lawyer and we will never describe it as one.

Instruct your own lawyer. That is our recommendation, not a formality. Use the JV firm for the mechanics if it is convenient, and have a firm of your own choosing read the title, the reservation agreement, the purchase contract, the licence, the security for your payments and every stage certificate. We will introduce firms if you want introductions. We will never appoint yours, and we work the same way with a lawyer we have never met as with one we have.

What is payable on top of the price

€1,950,000 is the price of the house. It is not the cost of buying it, and it is not the cost of owning it. Both are below.

Buying it. A new-build purchase in the Valencian Community carries Spanish VAT (IVA) on the price and stamp duty (AJD) on the deed, and then notary, land registry and legal fees on top of both. Together that is a six-figure sum in euros. It is not a rounding item, and it is not something you should meet for the first time at the notary.

We are not printing rates on this page, because they are set by national and regional law and they move. Before you reserve, we put the current rates and the actual cash total in writing; your own lawyer confirms them independently, and confirms the rates that apply on the day you complete. If you would like that figure before you speak to anybody, ask for it in the form below and we will send it.

And once you own it. A villa on a gated estate has running costs and you should see the list now rather than discover it in your first January. There is a community charge for Altea Hills, which is what pays for the 24-hour security, the private roads and the estate’s own maintenance. There is IBI, the local property tax, and the municipal rubbish charge. There are utilities, pool and garden maintenance, and building and contents insurance. If you own the house as a non-resident, Spain also taxes you annually on it — which is a question for a Spanish tax adviser, not for us.

We will put the figures we have, and the ones we can get from the estate, in writing alongside the purchase costs. Ask in the form below. We are a construction company: we will tell you what a building costs to run, and we will tell you to take the tax part to somebody qualified.

Anyone selling you a Spanish new-build who quotes you only the headline price is doing you no favours.

Ask us anything about it

There is one villa and one buyer. If you are considering it, the useful next step is a conversation — on the phone, on a video call, or on site in Altea. Tell us what you want to know and you will get a straight answer from the people building it, not from an agent.

Dr Assil Shareef, Managing Director · assil@elitecg.co.uk · Tel 0044 20 3576 1731 · WhatsApp 0044 7878 012662

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