The Oak 48: new build apartments in Estepona from €390,000

The outside walls are brick, rendered and painted, with areas of exposed brick, a lime mortar finish between the windows and wood-effect finishes in places. Behind them is an inner wall of hollow brick, with insulation sprayed into the gap between the two. Inside the home the rooms are divided by plasterboard on a frame, insulated against heat and sound, and the walls between one home and the next are brick with sprayed insulation.

Aluminium frames by Strugal with a thermal break, an insulating strip through the frame that stops the cold passing through it, in a colour still to be chosen by the architects. The double glazing is Climalit, two panes with a sealed air gap between them, using Planistar glass, which is coated to keep out heat from the sun and keep warmth in.

A reinforced entrance door with a security lock and bolts that stop it being levered open, finished on the inside to match the other doors. The internal doors are smooth panels of solid wood. Built-in wardrobes in white lacquer, lined inside in melamine, with a top shelf for cases, drawers and a hanging rail.

First-grade porcelain floor tiles 60 centimetres square, rectified, meaning their edges are ground straight so that the joints between them can be kept narrow. The walls of the bathrooms and the kitchen are tiled in porcelain by Saloni or similar. Ceilings are plasterboard in the kitchen, the main bathroom and wherever the services run, and plastered elsewhere. Walls and ceilings are painted.

Fitted with wall and base units and a worktop of Silestone or similar, a manufactured stone made mostly of quartz. The oven, a ceramic hob, the extractor hood and a washing machine are included.

Basins and WCs in white glazed porcelain by Roca or similar. The shower trays are acrylic resin and sit low to the floor, with a toughened glass screen. Single-lever taps, and a thermostatic tap that holds the water at the temperature you set.

Air conditioning that heats as well as cools, run from fan units hidden in the bathroom ceilings, with the air carried to each room through ducts and set from a programmable thermostat in the living room. The building is also prepared for a shared solar system to help heat each home’s hot water.

Television points in the living room and the bedrooms, telephone and broadband points, recessed lights in the kitchen and the main bathroom, and a light and a socket on every terrace. A video entry phone for each home. The garage is prepared for charging electric cars.

Terraces are laid in non-slip porcelain, with ceilings of PVC or aluminium panels and screens dividing one home’s terrace from the next. The roof terraces of the penthouses are insulated against heat and noise and laid in non-slip porcelain, and each has a metal staircase up from the home and an outdoor shower. Seven of them have a private pool of 3 by 2 metres.