Casa Roca de Malvet, new-build villa with pool, Santa Cristina d’Aro

Casa Roca de Malvet is a new-build villa in Santa Cristina d'Aro, five bedrooms over 380 m² on three levels, finished and never lived in, with a 7 by 3 m saltwater infinity pool with automatic pH control. The town sits in an inland valley among pines and cork oak, a few minutes from the centre and from the coast.

The living floor runs along the pool. The kitchen with its island is at one end, the living and dining area at the other, and a wall of glass slides away onto the terrace and lawn. This floor also has a double bedroom with a full bathroom and a second bedroom en-suite with its own dressing room.

Upstairs are the main bedroom with its own bathroom and dressing room, two more double bedrooms that share a full bathroom, and a long terrace that looks over the pool to the hills behind the town. Five bedrooms and four bathrooms in all. The bathrooms are finished in microcement, with walk-in showers, linear drains, rain shower heads and backlit mirrors.

• Italian Arredo3 kitchen with Siemens oven, microwave, dishwasher and side-by-side fridge-freezer, and a 90 cm Bora induction hob with built-in extraction
• Marazzi porcelain floors, 120 x 120 cm, anti-slip on the terraces
• Black lacquered aluminium joinery with thermal break, double glazing and motorised blinds
• Underfloor heating with high-efficiency aerothermics, ducted air conditioning and 6 kW of photovoltaic panels
• Energy class A, 26 kWh/m² a year
• Alarm and video entry at the gate

The basement has a garage for six cars, a large fully equipped utility room, the machine room and further storage. The garden is laid out over several levels with planted retaining slopes and a 5,000 litre underground tank that reuses irrigation water. Golf Costa Brava and Golf d'Aro are a short drive away, as are the beaches and coves at Sant Pol, Sa Conca and Platja d'Aro. Girona is 25 minutes away and Barcelona a little over an hour by the AP-7.