Buying in Mijas

The area

Mijas is really three places under one name. Mijas Pueblo is the white village in the hills, a genuinely old settlement looking down over the coast. Mijas Costa is the coastal strip below it, running east from Marbella through a series of urbanisations and beach communities. Between and behind them is the inland golf country, where several courses sit in the valleys.

The coastal strip is the busiest part and where most of the market activity is. La Cala de Mijas, roughly in the middle of it, has grown from a fishing village into the strip's natural centre and retains a walkable core with a beach directly in front of it.

This is the eastern end of the coast covered here, which in practice means it is nearer Málaga and its airport than the western areas are, and correspondingly popular with buyers who travel frequently.

Who it suits

It suits buyers whose budget will not stretch to the western coast but who still want to be near a beach, and those buying a holiday property they will use in short stretches through the year. The apartment-heavy stock is straightforward to lock up and leave.

It suits less well buyers looking at the top of the market. There is very little here above three million euros, and searches at that level are better directed west to Benahavís, Marbella or Sotogrande.

What your budget buys here

Based on what is available in Mijas today.

Neighbourhoods