South-Facing Villa with Peñón de Ifach Views — Paichi, Moraira, Costa Blanca North

Some houses you buy for the rooms. This one you buy for six o'clock.

That is the hour, on this side of Moraira, when the light comes off the Mediterranean at an angle and the whole valley turns the colour of dry sherry. Paichi sits high enough to catch it and open enough to keep it — the Peñón de Ifach anchoring the southern horizon at Calpe, the Sierra de Bernia standing behind to the west, and between them nothing but pine, terrace and open country. The people who live here do not talk about the view. They talk about the sunsets. This is one of the addresses in Moraira they mean.

The villa faces due south and answers to nobody. No neighbour looks back at it. The garden runs fully enclosed around the house, mature and properly kept, planted with fruit trees that give the plot the settled, lived-in quality a new build on this coast spends two decades trying to acquire. You pick your own oranges here in February. It matters more than you would think.

Inside, the house is deliberately unshowy and deliberately comfortable. Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, one of them en-suite. Air conditioning runs throughout; gas radiators handle the shoulder months; a pellet-burning fireplace takes care of the handful of January evenings when the Marina Alta remembers it has a winter. A bathroom has been renovated and new tiled flooring laid within the past five years, so what you are buying is a finished home, not a list of jobs.

But the real living happens outside, as it should on this coastline. The saltwater pool — already pre-installed for heating, which extends the swimming season by months rather than weeks — sits at the centre of a run of terraces: one for breakfast in the shade, one for lunch that goes on too long, one for dinner that goes on later. The Jacuzzi is where you end up afterwards, under a sky with very little light pollution in it. Nine months of the year, the doors simply stay open.

Beneath the easy life, a serious piece of engineering. Thirteen photovoltaic panels deliver around 6 kW of installed capacity, with a separate solar system producing hot water — the sort of specification that quietly removes the electricity bill from the conversation. A water softener and reverse-osmosis drinking system are fitted. Fibre-optic internet is connected, which on this coast is the difference between a holiday house and a life. Wastewater is handled by a modern total-oxidation treatment system.

And then the lower level — the part that will interest the buyer thinking two moves ahead. Today it is generous storage, a workshop and a technical room. The footprint and the access are there to turn it into a self-contained guest apartment: somewhere to put family for a month without losing your own house, or a rental unit that works the season on its own terms.

South-facing, private, mountain and sea-view, energy-efficient and genuinely finished, in one of Moraira's most established residential pockets — with room, when you want it, to become something more.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Location: Paichi, Moraira (Teulada-Moraira, Marina Alta, Alicante province, Costa Blanca North)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms (1 en-suite)
• South-facing orientation with open views to the Peñón de Ifach and Sierra de Bernia
• Sunset-facing position; no direct overlooking neighbours
• Saltwater swimming pool with pre-installation for pool heating
• Jacuzzi and multiple outdoor dining, seating and entertaining terraces
• Fully enclosed, mature garden with a variety of fruit trees
• Air conditioning throughout, gas radiators and pellet-burning fireplace
• 13 photovoltaic solar panels, approx. 6 kW installed capacity
• Solar hot water system
• Water softener and reverse-osmosis drinking water system
• Fibre-optic internet
• Total-oxidation wastewater treatment system
• Lower level: storage, workshop and technical room, with potential to create an independent guest apartment (subject to licence)
• Parking for two vehicles within the property
• Renovated in the past five years: one bathroom refurbished, new tiled flooring
• Walking and short driving distance to shops, supermarkets and restaurants
• Moraira town centre and beaches: approx. 5 minutes by car
• Alicante-Elche Airport approx. 1 hr 15 min; Valencia Airport approx. 1 hr 30 min, with a direct New York Newark service from June 2027

Real estate agent in Moraira

BoCasa is your personal real estate agent at the Costa Blanca. The center of our attention is on the area between Denia and Calpe and inland upto the Jalon valley with a focus on the towns of Moraira, Javea, Benissa and Benitachell. We help you from start to finish with the purchase or sale of your property in Spain. Based on your preferences, we select suitable homes, view them together with you, negotiate on your behalf and guide you in engaging professional partners such as lawyers, mortgage advisers, notaries, etc. We are also there for you after the purchase for arranging all kinds of practical matters that you encounter but also, for example, for renovations and the furnishing of your house and/or garden. Feel free to contact us, without any obligation.