Asturias · Cantabria · Green Spain
Asturias & Cantabria Fractional Ownership & Co-Ownership Properties
6 co-ownership homes in Asturias & Cantabria, where you own a real share of the home, usually 1/8 with around 6 weeks a year. Shares start at €135,000 (€157,500 typical). Every home is fully managed.
- 6 homes for sale
- Shares from €135k
- Around 6 weeks a year
- 3 new this month
6 homes · from €135,000
Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain — 4-Bed House With Pool
€140,000
Ruiloba, Cantabria, Spain — 5-Bed House With Private Pool, Garden & Picos de Europa Views
€175,000
Labarces, Cantabria, Spain — 5-Bed House With Garden, Fireplace & Countryside Views
€215,000
Llanes, Asturias, Spain — 4-Bed Villa With Garden
€135,000
Lamadrid, Cantabria, Spain — 4-Bed House With Fireplace
€140,000
San Vicente de la Barquera, Cantabria, Spain — 4-Bed House With Fireplace
€190,000
What does it cost to co-own a home in Asturias & Cantabria?
Shares in Asturias & Cantabria range from €135,000 to €215,000, with half under €157,500. Most are 1/8 shares, around 6 weeks a year. Running costs vary by home: open a home's photos and we'll send you its yearly costs. Figures from the 6 homes listed here.
| Share price | Homes | Typical share | Nights a year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under €150k | 3 | €140,000 | — |
| €150k–250k | 3 | €190,000 | 42 |
Spain's green coast, between the Picos de Europa and the Bay of Biscay.
Large four- and five-bedroom family houses around Llanes, Ribadesella, Comillas and San Vicente de la Barquera, with gardens, fireplaces and private pools. Your piece of the home comes with around six weeks a year, with shares from €135,000.
What is fractional ownership in Asturias and Cantabria?
Fractional ownership in Asturias and Cantabria means owning a real piece of a large family holiday home on Spain's green north coast, typically an eighth, shared with a small group of other owners. Each owner has around six weeks in the house each year through a fair calendar, and the team that manages the home looks after cleaning, maintenance and everything in between. You own a piece of the home itself. It is not a timeshare and not a holiday club.
Why Asturias and Cantabria?
When the Mediterranean gets too hot, Spaniards head north. Asturias and Cantabria sit side by side on the Bay of Biscay, between the Basque Country and Galicia, and they are known across Spain as la España Verde, Green Spain. The soft Atlantic climate keeps the meadows emerald all year, and summer days are warm rather than scorching, typically in the low to mid-twenties.
What makes this coast so special is how close the mountains are to the sea. The Picos de Europa, a range of limestone peaks rising above 2,600 metres, stand only around 20 kilometres from the shore. In June you can see snow on the summits from a sandy beach. Spain's first national park was created here in 1918, around the lakes and basilica of Covadonga, and today the park stretches across Asturias, Cantabria and León.
Between the peaks and the sea lies a coastline of hidden coves, cliff-top meadows and fishing harbours. Add cider houses, cave-aged blue cheese, a three-Michelin-star table in each region and an early Gaudí, and you have a corner of Spain that British visitors fall for quickly.
It is also remarkable value. The homes on this page are large four- and five-bedroom family houses with gardens, fireplaces and, in two cases, private pools, and shares currently start from €135,000. That makes Green Spain one of the most affordable, and most spacious, ways onto our list.
Where to own: the towns and villages
The 6 homes on this page sit along a short stretch of coast, from Ribadesella in Asturias to Comillas in Cantabria, about an hour's drive from end to end. Wherever you stay, the beaches, the Picos and the best restaurants are close.
Llanes, Asturias
Llanes is the jewel of the Asturian coast: a medieval walled town with a busy fishing harbour, stone mansions built by families who made their fortunes in the Americas, and the Cubos de la Memoria, the breakwater blocks painted in bold colours by the Basque artist Agustín Ibarrola. The cliff-top Paseo de San Pedro looks out over the sea, and summer evenings in the old town are lively with terraces and sidrerías.
The municipality of Llanes has dozens of beaches. Two are famous across Spain. Playa de Gulpiyuri is an inland beach, a small crescent of sand in a green meadow, about a hundred metres from the coast, where the sea arrives through underground channels in the rock; it is protected as a Natural Monument. Playa de Torimbia is a perfect shell-shaped cove below green hills near the village of Niembro, reached on foot and worth every step. Close by, the Bufones de Pría are blowholes in the cliffs that send plumes of spray high into the air when the swell is up.
Best for: families who want a town with real life in it, a choice of beaches for every mood, and the Picos de Europa within an hour's drive. Shares here start from €135,000.
Ribadesella, Asturias
Ribadesella sits where the River Sella meets the sea, with the long golden sweep of Playa de Santa Marina on one side of the estuary and the old fishing quarter on the other. Every August the town hosts the Descenso Internacional del Sella, a canoe race downriver from Arriondas to the sea that has grown into one of Spain's best-loved summer festivals, with crowds lining the riverbanks.
Ribadesella is also on the Dinosaur Coast, where real fossil footprints can be seen on the rocks at low tide, and home to the Tito Bustillo cave, whose Palaeolithic paintings are part of a UNESCO World Heritage listing. Arriondas, a short drive inland, is where Nacho Manzano's Casa Marcial was awarded three Michelin stars, set in the farmhouse where he grew up.
Best for: active families who want a beach town with river kayaking, surf and walks on the doorstep, and some of the best cooking in Spain twenty minutes away.
Comillas and Ruiloba, Cantabria
Comillas is one of the most elegant small towns in northern Spain. In the late nineteenth century it was a summer retreat for the Spanish royal court, and wealthy families commissioned the leading Catalan architects of the day to build here. The result is extraordinary: the neo-Gothic Palacio de Sobrellano, the hilltop Pontifical University, and El Capricho de Gaudí, a playful summer villa covered in green tiles and ceramic sunflowers, and one of the very few buildings Antoni Gaudí designed outside Catalonia. Below the old town is a fine sandy beach and a small harbour.
Ruiloba is a quiet, rural village just inland, among meadows and small farms with views over the hills to the Picos de Europa. It is a few minutes from Comillas and the beaches, and a world away from the crowds.
Best for: buyers who love architecture, a beautiful town for evening walks, and the peace of the countryside at night. Shares here start from €175,000.
San Vicente de la Barquera, Lamadrid and Labarces
San Vicente de la Barquera is the postcard of Cantabria: a fishing town on a wide estuary, a long stone bridge, a medieval castle and church on the hill above, and the snowy peaks of the Picos de Europa rising behind it all. It is a stop on the northern route of the Camino de Santiago, and its seafood restaurants along the harbour are a local institution. Here too is Annua, an acclaimed modern restaurant set right at the water's edge, looking out over the estuary.
The town is the gateway to the Oyambre Natural Park, with the long, wild beaches of Oyambre and Merón, both popular with surfers, and the Santa Marina golf course, an 18-hole course designed by Seve Ballesteros, Cantabria's most famous son.
Just inland, the villages of Lamadrid and Labarces sit in the green valleys of Valdáliga, among stone farmhouses, oak woods and grazing cattle, about ten to fifteen minutes from the sea.
Best for: families who want space, a fireplace for cooler evenings, and both the beach and the mountains within half an hour. Shares here start from €140,000.
Food, cider and culture
The north is where Spaniards go to eat. In Asturias, the heart of life is the sidrería, the cider house, where natural cider is poured from above the head into a wide glass to bring it to life, a ritual called escanciar. The culture of Asturian cider, from the apple orchards to the pour, was added to UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2024. Order a bottle with fabada asturiana, the rich bean stew, or a cachopo, and finish with a wedge of Cabrales, the powerful blue cheese matured in limestone caves in the Picos.
Cantabria answers with the famous anchovies of Santoña, buttery sobaos and quesada pasiega from the Pas valleys, and the hearty cocido montañés. And at the top end, the two regions are among the most exciting food destinations in Europe: El Cenador de Amós, near Santander, and Casa Marcial, in Arriondas, both hold three Michelin stars, and Michelin-starred tables such as El Retiro, in Pancar near Llanes, are within easy reach of every home on this page.
Culture runs deep, too. Santillana del Mar, one of Spain's best-preserved medieval villages, has cobbled lanes, a Romanesque collegiate church and the nearby Altamira museum, home to a faithful replica of the cave whose painted bison are among the world's great works of prehistoric art. Santander, an hour from San Vicente, offers the Palacio de la Magdalena on its own peninsula, the beaches of El Sardinero and the Centro Botín arts centre on the bay.
A year in your Green Spain home
Every season on this coast has something to offer, which is why weeks spread across the year work so well here.
Summer (June to September)
This is the season that the rest of Spain envies. While the south bakes, the north enjoys warm, bright days that are perfect for the beach, and nights cool enough for a jumper on the terrace. Mornings on the sand at Torimbia or Oyambre, long lunches of grilled fish in San Vicente, evenings in a Llanes sidrería. August is festival month, from the Sella canoe race in Ribadesella to the village fiestas with bagpipes and traditional dancers in costume. Best week of the year? Many owners would choose the first week of August, for the Sella and the long warm evenings.
Autumn (October and November)
September and October bring warm seas, quiet beaches and golden light over the meadows. It is cider-making season, and the Picos are at their most beautiful for walking. In November, Potes, the capital of the Liébana valley, holds its Orujo festival, a celebration of the local spirit. Try the famous mountain walks: the Ruta del Cares, a path carved into the side of a deep gorge, or the cable car at Fuente Dé, which lifts you more than 750 metres in a few minutes to a world of high peaks.
Winter (December to February)
Winter is the season of the fireplace. Long walks on empty beaches, snow on the Picos and cider by the fire: several of these homes have fireplaces for exactly this reason. Keen skiers can reach Alto Campoo, Cantabria's ski station, for a day on the snow.
Spring (March to May)
Spring turns the meadows a brilliant green and fills them with wildflowers. The surf is good, and the lakes of Covadonga, high in the Picos, become reachable again for walks around their shores. It is the perfect season for cycling, golf and walking stretches of the Camino de Santiago, which follows this coast.
Who buys in Asturias and Cantabria
For decades, British families have driven off the ferry at Santander for a summer in the north. Our buyers are typically:
- UK families who want a big, comfortable house by the sea for the summer holidays, with room for the children's friends and the grandparents.
- Walkers, cyclists and golfers who come for the Picos de Europa, the Camino and the golf on Seve Ballesteros's home coast as much as for the beaches.
- Food lovers drawn by the cider houses, the cheese and one of the highest concentrations of great restaurants in Europe.
- Buyers who already love Spain and want a cooler, greener alternative to the Costas, often alongside a share elsewhere, such as a ski home in Baqueira, in the Pyrenees.
Practicalities: getting there and what you own
By ferry from the UK
Few places in Spain are so easy to reach with your own car. Brittany Ferries sails to Santander from Plymouth and from Portsmouth, and also from Portsmouth to Bilbao. The Plymouth crossing is the shortest, at around 20 hours with a night in a cabin. You arrive with the car, the bikes and the surfboards, and the homes are around 50 minutes to an hour and a half from the Santander terminal. Schedules change with the season.
By air
Santander airport (Seve Ballesteros) has direct Ryanair flights from London Stansted, with further UK routes such as Manchester and Edinburgh depending on the season. The flight takes about two hours, and the Cantabrian homes are under an hour's drive from the airport. Asturias airport, near Avilés, has direct London flights and easy connections through Madrid, and is about an hour and a quarter from Ribadesella. Bilbao, with a wide choice of UK flights, is just under two hours from San Vicente de la Barquera. A car is the best way to explore, and the coastal motorway makes driving between the towns easy.
Whole home or a share
| Whole second home | Co-ownership share | |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | The full property | A piece of the home, typically an eighth |
| Time in the home | All year, though most families use a few weeks | Around six weeks a year, fairly rotated |
| Looking after it | Up to you, from a distance | The team that manages the home handles it |
| Running costs | Paid by you alone | Shared between the owners |
What you own
You own a real piece of the home, not a right to use it. Your share follows the value of the house, and it is yours to sell or to pass on to your family. Running costs are shared between the owners, and we are happy to send any home's yearly figures on request. The team that manages each home explains how ownership is set up, how the calendar works and whether owners can rent out their weeks.
The calendar and the management
Each home has a fair calendar that shares out the summer weeks, school holidays and quieter seasons, so every family gets its turn at the best weeks. Between your stays, the team that manages the home looks after cleaning, gardens, pools and maintenance. You arrive to a house that is ready and waiting.
For the full picture of how co-ownership works, read our co-ownership guide, try the holiday home cost calculator, or take the which home fits you quiz. To see what is available now, browse the homes above, or join our list to hear about new homes in Green Spain first.
Questions & Answers
Asturias & Cantabria Fractional Ownership — Frequently Asked Questions
Shares in our Asturias and Cantabria homes currently start from €135,000, for a piece of a large four- or five-bedroom family house with a garden, a fireplace or a private pool. That makes Green Spain one of the most affordable ways onto our list. Running costs are shared between the owners, and we are happy to send any home's yearly figures on request.
A typical share is an eighth of the home, which gives you around six weeks a year. A fair calendar rotates the most popular weeks, such as August and the school holidays, between the owners, so every family gets its turn at high summer, alongside weeks in the green spring, the golden autumn and the fireside winter.
No. A timeshare gives you the right to use a resort for a set week, shared with thousands of others. With co-ownership you own a real piece of one specific home, together with a small group of other owners. Your share follows the value of the house, and it is yours to sell or to pass on to your family. The team that manages each home explains exactly how ownership is set up before you buy.
It depends on the home. Some homes allow owners to rent out weeks they are not using, and the team that manages the home can explain the options for the house you are interested in.
Llanes is the lively heart of the Asturian coast, with a medieval old town, a fishing harbour and famous beaches such as Gulpiyuri and Torimbia nearby. Ribadesella is a beach town on the Sella estuary, home of the August canoe race. In Cantabria, Comillas and the village of Ruiloba combine elegant architecture, including Gaudí's El Capricho, with quiet countryside, while San Vicente de la Barquera and the green valleys of Lamadrid and Labarces sit between the beaches of Oyambre and the Picos de Europa. All of them are within about an hour of each other.
Summer is the classic season: warm, bright beach days and cool nights while the south of Spain bakes, with festivals such as the Sella canoe race in early August. September and October bring warm seas, quiet beaches and the best mountain walking in the Picos de Europa. Spring fills the meadows with wildflowers, and winter is the season for log fires, empty beaches and snow on the peaks. Every season has something to offer.
By sea, Brittany Ferries sails to Santander from Plymouth and Portsmouth, so you can bring your own car; the Plymouth crossing takes around 20 hours, and the homes are under an hour and a half from the port. By air, Santander airport has direct flights from London Stansted and other UK airports depending on the season, and Asturias airport has direct London flights. Flights take about two hours, and Bilbao is another easy option, just under two hours' drive from San Vicente de la Barquera.
Green Spain is famous for the Picos de Europa, the limestone peaks that rise only around 20 kilometres from the sea, for beautiful beaches and coves, and for its food: Asturian cider poured from shoulder height in the sidrerías, Cabrales blue cheese, Santoña anchovies and two of Spain's three-Michelin-star restaurants, Casa Marcial and El Cenador de Amós. Add the medieval village of Santillana del Mar, the Altamira cave museum and Gaudí's El Capricho in Comillas, and there is something for every day of your stay.
The team that manages the home takes care of everything between your stays: cleaning, gardens, pools, maintenance and repairs. You arrive to a house that is clean and ready, and simply enjoy your weeks.
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