Villajoyosa Residence: the SAVO seaside project on the Costa Blanca
A tower by the sea, for now only in the drawings
Villajoyosa Residence is the SAVO project in Spain, in the Alicante town of Villajoyosa on the Costa Blanca. It is at design stage. Everything on this page comes from the project visualisations prepared with the architects; no part of the building exists yet, and nothing is on sale. The visualisations put a residential tower close to the shore. Looking north-east along the coast, the Benidorm skyline stands behind it; looking inland, the hills of the Marina Baixa close the view. Palms are drawn along the approach and on the podium level. Height is what makes the site work: from the upper floors the sea is in front and the mountains behind, and the whole scheme is built around that double outlook.
Why this stretch of coast
Villajoyosa is a working town rather than a holiday strip. It keeps a fishing port, a painted old quarter above the beach, the Valor chocolate factory and the hospital that serves the whole comarca. The narrow-gauge TRAM line runs through it to Benidorm in one direction and Alicante in the other, and the airport on the Costa Blanca is about forty kilometres down the A-7. Shops, schools and surgeries stay open through the winter, which matters for a building meant to be lived in and not only visited in August. Spain is the third market the group entered. SAVO has been on the market since 2006 and has built 320 000 m² of housing and commercial space in Europe, and Villajoyosa Residence is the first scheme it has designed for a Mediterranean site.
The master plan: pool, padel court and walking paths
The master plan treats the ground as part of the home. A pool sits in the middle of the plot with sunbeds along its long side, lawns and planting around it, and walking paths that loop the block so a circuit is possible without stepping onto the road. A padel court is drawn into the plan as well: on this coast padel is an ordinary weekly habit rather than an amenity for the brochure, so it gets real space. Above, the roof is given back to the residents. The visualisations show shaded seating and planted edges on the rooftop terraces, with the town below on one side, the sea on the other and the mountains behind. Cars and deliveries are kept off the pedestrian route through the site.
Light interiors and flats that open onto the outside
The interiors are drawn pale: white and sand walls, timber and stone in warm tones, large glazed openings and deep terraces instead of narrow balconies. Each living room in the drawings has a door onto outdoor space, and the glazing is sized for a coast where the light is strong for most of the year. No layouts, floor areas or prices are published for Villajoyosa Residence, because the design is not fixed. While a scheme is still being drawn, those numbers change, and the group would rather publish nothing than publish a figure it has to withdraw. When the design is signed off, the visualisations become plans and the plans are what gets quoted.
Design, build, sell, then look after the place
SAVO works the full cycle in-house: the land plot, the concept, the design, the construction, the sales, the commissioning and the development of the territory afterwards. The group builds complete environments rather than single buildings, which is why housing comes with commerce, sport and service space inside the same scheme. The same approach stands behind Lucky Homes by SAVO in Vilnius and Evromisto by SAVO in the Kyiv region. There is no SAVO office in Villajoyosa and no Spanish telephone line. Enquiries about the project, including from agents and contractors, go to [email protected], and the group website is savobi.com. The group's registered entity is in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Villajoyosa, Costa Blanca, Spain
- Villajoyosa, la Vila Joiosa in Valencian, is a coastal town in the comarca of Marina Baixa, in the province of Alicante on the Spanish Mediterranean.
- It lies between Benidorm to the north-east and the city of Alicante to the south-west; both are a short drive along the same stretch of coast.
- Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernandez Airport, the main gateway to the Costa Blanca, is roughly forty kilometres away and is reached by the A-7 motorway.
- The N-332 coastal road and the AP-7 motorway pass the town, and the narrow-gauge TRAM line between Alicante, Benidorm and Denia has a stop here.
- Chocolates Valor, one of the best-known chocolate makers in Spain, has kept its factory and its museum in the town since the nineteenth century.
- The old quarter above the beach is known for its brightly painted fishermen's houses, and the town still works a fishing port alongside its tourist trade.
- Hospital Marina Baixa, which serves the whole comarca, stands on the edge of the town, and the municipal museum Vilamuseu holds the finds from the Roman settlement of Allon.
- Foreign buyers are a normal part of the local property market: British, Belgian, Dutch, German and Nordic purchasers buy here, alongside Spanish families looking for a second home near the sea.
The project in visualisations
Villajoyosa is at the design stage: these are renderings of the project, not photographs of a finished building, and the result may differ from them.
Terms on this subject
- Escritura pública and registrationThe notarial deed is the day a purchase becomes real; the entry in the Registro de la Propiedad is what makes the ownership hard to attack. They are two separate steps.
- Handover and defects liabilityHandover is an appointment with a document at the end of it. What is written into that document, and what is reported afterwards, decides how the first years in a new home go.
Questions about SAVO and its projects
Is Villajoyosa Residence built, or can a flat be reserved?
Neither. The project is at design stage and the images are project visualisations. Nothing is being sold or reserved. When that changes it will be stated on this page.
Where exactly on the Costa Blanca is the project?
In Villajoyosa, in the province of Alicante, close to the sea, with Benidorm along the coast to the north-east and the Costa Blanca airport about forty kilometres away. The plot address is not published while the design is still being drawn.
What is planned on the shared ground?
A pool with sunbeds, lawns and planting, walking paths around the block, a padel court and rooftop terraces with seating. This follows the current visualisations and can still shift as the design is finished.
Who is SAVO and where else does it build?
SAVO is an international investment and development group, on the market since 2006, working in Spain, Lithuania and the Kyiv region. Its Lithuanian project is Lucky Homes by SAVO in Vilnius and its Ukrainian one is Evromisto by SAVO, a district that is finished and lived in.
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