Laguna Nova: new build apartments in Las Lagunas, Mijas

Air conditioning that warms as well as cools, run by a heat pump, which draws heat from the outside air instead of burning fuel. Ducts above a lowered ceiling carry it to the living room, the kitchen and the bedrooms, set from a thermostat in the living room. Hot water comes from solar panels, with a storage tank and an electric back-up.

Smooth white units with a matt finish that does not show fingerprints, and no handles: each door opens from a recessed groove along its edge. The worktop and the island are porcelain made to look like grey-veined marble, carried down to the floor at the end of the island and up the wall behind. A fridge-freezer, an oven and a microwave set into a tall unit, a large induction hob and an extractor are included, over a dark sink fitted beneath the worktop.

Large porcelain tiles in a neutral grey run through the living room, the kitchen and the hallways, and the same tile continues onto the terraces in a non-slip finish. Walls are painted smooth in off-white or pale grey. Lowered plasterboard ceilings cover the entrance hall, the corridors, the kitchen and the bathrooms.

Showers throughout, each with a resin tray, a glass screen and a single-lever chrome tap. The basins sit in a vanity unit under a mirror, by the Spanish maker Porcelanosa, with white porcelain fittings. Walls are partly tiled, in grey in the main bathroom and in sand where there is a second.

PVC window frames with double glazing, and insulated aluminium roller blinds that black out the bedrooms. The front door is solid, with a security lock and a spyhole. Inside are white lacquered doors, and every bedroom has a fitted wardrobe with sliding white doors, a lining, a shelf and a hanging rail.

The outer walls are brick, either left bare or rendered and painted, with an air gap and mineral wool behind them and a plasterboard lining inside. Between one home and the next, and between the homes and the shared areas, brick is lined with plasterboard over mineral wool, which cuts down the sound and heat passing through.

A video entry phone with a colour screen in each home, linked to a camera at the building door. Fibre runs to every home, with data points in the living room and the bedrooms, and television points in those rooms and the kitchen. Each home is ventilated by an extractor in the bathrooms, through its own duct to the roof.

The garage has a smooth concrete floor with marked, numbered spaces and a remote-controlled door, and the wiring for electric-car chargers is prepared. A lift for six people, with a door wide enough for a wheelchair, runs from the garage to every floor.