Riviera del Sol, Málaga property and area FAQs

Mijas is a municipality in the Province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Located on the southeastern coast of Spain, Mijas belongs to the region of Costa del Sol Occidental. Its center is a typical Andalusian white-washed village, Mijas Pueblo, located on a mountainside about 430 metres or 1,476 feet above sea level, in the heart of the Costa del Sol region.

For Mijas, the IGN Nomenclátor currently lists 17 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-20. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Mijas, at a recorded elevation of approximately 415 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Las Lagunas (38,130 residents in the cited settlement record), Sitio de Calahonda (18,122 residents in the cited settlement record), Campo-Mijas (6,425 residents in the cited settlement record), La Cala (4,870 residents in the cited settlement record), and Chaparral (4,724 residents in the cited settlement record). Nomenclátor entries describe settlement geography; they are not listing totals, neighbourhood boundaries or evidence of homes currently available for sale.

The municipality has three nuclei, gathering the majority of its population:

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 148.8 square kilometres for Mijas municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 29070 and keeps the province label Málaga. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

The linked structured record gives a municipal reference coordinate of 36.5956, -4.6372. It is not a listing coordinate, parcel boundary or search radius.

The latest imported INE population for Mijas municipality is 91,293, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Mijas municipality, recorded population changed by 19.0%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Mijas municipality is €11,823 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 40.7 years for Mijas municipality, for period 2023.

The page uses 9 published observations for Mijas municipality, running from 2015 to 2023.

The population figure uses INE period 2023. The page shows the period beside the value so it is not mistaken for a live counter.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Mijas municipality records €2,948 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

MITMA records an appraised housing value of €3,235 per square metre for Mijas municipality in 2026Q1. Appraised value is a different basis from both asking and completed-sale price.

The displayed series for Mijas municipality begins at €2,325 per m² in 2023Q2. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

Within the 12 displayed observations for Mijas municipality, the highest appraised housing value value is €3,235 per m² in 2026Q1.

Within the same displayed series for Málaga province, the lowest registered sale-price benchmark value is €2,714 per m² in 2024Q3.

Across the latest four displayed MITMA quarters, resale housing represents 78.9% of transactions for Mijas municipality.

Dirección General del Catastro records 19,262 buildings for Mijas municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 64,547 dwellings for Mijas municipality. It should not be read as current sale inventory.

Across buildings with a recorded construction year, the Catastro extract gives an average year of 1,987 for Mijas municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 20,750 energy certificates for Mijas municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

Among the imported certificates for Mijas municipality, 6.6% are rated A, B or C. The share applies only to registered certificates in the dataset.

The Catastro extract records 64,547 dwellings across 19,262 buildings for Mijas municipality, or approximately 3.35 dwellings per recorded building.

The current eligible public inventory contains 3 listings for Riviera del Sol. The count excludes sold, withdrawn, expired, rejected, draft, private, off-market and feed-private records.

The current public inventory is: 2 villas; 1 penthouse. Only types with at least one eligible live listing receive an indexable area/type page.

Published asking prices in the current NLS inventory run from €490,000 to €1,350,000. These are live asking prices, not completed-sale values.

No. The Riviera del Sol count includes only active listings that are eligible for the public NLS catalogue at the time the page is generated. Draft, withdrawn, private and feed-private records do not create a public area or property-type page.

NLS currently shows 2 eligible public villas for Riviera del Sol, equal to 66.7% of the 3-listing area inventory.

The difference between the current published minimum of €490,000 and maximum of €1,350,000 is €860,000. This describes the live mix of listings and is not a market-value estimate.