Monte Rei Golf & Country Club is the East Algarve’s flagship resort: 800 hectares of rolling countryside between Vila Nova de Cacela and Tavira, planned as a low-density private estate where houses sit far apart, the views run to the sea and the Spanish coast, and the golf is world-class. The Jack Nicklaus Signature North Course has been ranked the best course in Portugal year after year, and a second Nicklaus course is under construction.

Around the clubhouse you will find Vistas — the resort’s fine-dining restaurant with a Michelin star — The Grill, a spa, tennis courts, pools and the five-star Wyndham Grand Algarve hotel, whose apartments are sold with a guaranteed rental return. Residents choose between Casas do Campo townhouses, fairway villas, apartments and building plots with approved projects, all inside a gated, 24-hour-secured estate.

Outside the gates the East Algarve is the calm, unspoilt end of the region: the medieval village of Cacela Velha and the Ria Formosa lagoon are ten minutes away, Tavira fifteen, Spain twenty, Seville an hour and a half. Prices remain well below the Golden Triangle — for many buyers, that is exactly the point.

Monte Rei Golf & Country Club is the East Algarve’s flagship resort: 800 hectares of rolling countryside between Vila Nova de Cacela and Tavira, planned as a low-density private estate where houses sit far apart, the views run to the sea and the Spanish coast, and the golf is world-class. The Jack Nicklaus Signature North Course has been ranked the best course in Portugal year after year, and a second Nicklaus course is under construction.

Around the clubhouse you will find Vistas — the resort’s fine-dining restaurant with a Michelin star — The Grill, a spa, tennis courts, pools and the five-star Wyndham Grand Algarve hotel, whose apartments are sold with a guaranteed rental return. Residents choose between Casas do Campo townhouses, fairway villas, apartments and building plots with approved projects, all inside a gated, 24-hour-secured estate.

Outside the gates the East Algarve is the calm, unspoilt end of the region: the medieval village of Cacela Velha and the Ria Formosa lagoon are ten minutes away, Tavira fifteen, Spain twenty, Seville an hour and a half. Prices remain well below the Golden Triangle — for many buyers, that is exactly the point.

Monte Rei sits in the hills of Vila Nova de Cacela, in the county of Vila Real de Santo António — the eastern corner of the Algarve, where the region turns quieter, greener and more Portuguese. Inside the estate, life revolves around the clubhouse: a round on the North Course, lunch at The Grill, dinner at Vistas, the spa and pools of the Wyndham Grand. The whole resort is gated and patrolled 24 hours a day, and the low-density plan means most homes see only golf, hills or sea.

Ten minutes down the hill are the beaches: Manta Rota, Praia Verde, Cacela Velha — a whitewashed medieval village above the Ria Formosa lagoon — and the endless sandbar beaches reached by boat. Tavira, one of the Algarve’s prettiest towns, with its Roman bridge, riverside restaurants and weekly market, is fifteen minutes away; Vila Real de Santo António and the Guadiana ferry to Spain twenty. Faro airport is 35 minutes by motorway, Seville an hour and a half.

Everyday life is easy: supermarkets and health centre in Vila Nova de Cacela and Tavira, a private hospital in Faro, international schools in Tavira and Almancil, and the Spanish outlet and shopping of Ayamonte across the river. Property here costs a fraction of Quinta do Lago or Vale do Lobo for the same specification — which is why Monte Rei attracts golfers, families who want space and investors who like the rental guarantee. Villagrand handles resale and new-build sales inside the resort; ask us for the current availability and the plots with approved projects.

District: Faro · Municipality: Vila Real de Santo António · Parish: Vila Nova de Cacela · Estate: 800 ha, gated, 24-hour security

Golf: Jack Nicklaus Signature North Course (Portugal’s No. 1) · second Nicklaus course under construction · Hotel: Wyndham Grand Algarve (5*) · Vistas restaurant (Michelin star)

Distances: beaches 10 min · Tavira 15 min · Spain 20 min · Faro airport 35 min · Seville 1 h 30

Property types: Casas do Campo townhouses · fairway villas · apartments and penthouses (some with 3.5% guaranteed return) · building plots with approved projects

District: Faro · Municipality: Vila Real de Santo António · Parish: Vila Nova de Cacela · Estate: 800 ha, gated, 24-hour security

Golf: Jack Nicklaus Signature North Course (Portugal’s No. 1) · second Nicklaus course under construction · Hotel: Wyndham Grand Algarve (5*) · Vistas restaurant (Michelin star)

Distances: beaches 10 min · Tavira 15 min · Spain 20 min · Faro airport 35 min · Seville 1 h 30

Property types: Casas do Campo townhouses · fairway villas · apartments and penthouses (some with 3.5% guaranteed return) · building plots with approved projects