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Coín is where we point buyers who want a Spanish town rather than a resort. After twenty years on the Costa del Sol, we know which houses have been properly reformed and which have had a coat of paint — and we'll say plainly when an asking price reflects hope rather than the market.
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Ground floor apartments are one of the older town's quieter pleasures. In the lanes around the Plaza Alameda and the parish church, much of the housing stock is two or three storeys with no lift, so a planta baja flat is the sensible choice for anyone who would rather not take stairs every day. These are mostly modest, traditional homes: typically one or two bedrooms, often somewhere between roughly 60 and 100 square metres, and a fair number come with a small interior patio, a strip of garden, or a street-level terrace that the upper flats simply don't have. A good share started life as a planta baja within an older townhouse, and some are converted former commercial units, which is worth knowing because the conversion needs to have been done properly and legally.
They tend to be the most affordable way into the centre, and prices generally run below what you'd pay for an equivalent villa or a country plot on the outskirts. Buyers are often a mix: retirees and older locals who want everything on one level and a short walk to the market and La Trocha, and people looking for a low-maintenance bolt-hole or a sound rental. We'll always be straight with you about which ground floors get proper light and which feel dark by mid-afternoon, and whether any patio or garden is genuinely private. Damp and street noise are the two things to check carefully at this level, and we'll point them out where we see them.
Coín Centro is the historic core of Coín, the principal market town of the Guadalhorce Valley, roughly thirty kilometres inland from Málaga and a similar distance over the hills from Marbella. The town sits a little over two hundred metres up, ringed by the citrus groves that earned it the name el pueblo de las trescientas huertas — the town of three hundred orchards. The layout of the centre is still recognisably Moorish: narrow whitewashed streets folding around Plaza Alameda, the old town hall and the sixteenth-century church of San Juan Bautista, whose Mudéjar coffered ceiling is among the finest in Andalucía. Daily trade runs along Calle La Feria, Vicario and Buena Vista, and almost everything — bakery, bank, health centre — is reached on foot.
Town houses set the tone here: two and three storeys, plastered façades, an internal patio and very often a roof terrace looking across the valley. Ground-floor flats come next, many with their own door straight off the street, which suits buyers who want single-level living without a communal block. Condition varies more than the photographs suggest — some houses have been carefully reformed, others untouched for decades — and that spread shows in the prices. Most town houses in the centre change hands somewhere between €150,000 and €350,000: the lower end buys a sound house that wants updating, the upper end a reformed three- or four-bedroom home. Ground-floor flats generally sit between €100,000 and €200,000. Unusually large houses, and those with garages, trade above the band — garaging is the scarcest commodity in the old streets.
Coín is a working Spanish town of around twenty thousand people, with roughly one in eight residents born abroad — enough company for incomers, never enough to tip the place into a resort. La Trocha commercial centre on the edge of town adds a supermarket, cinema, rooftop gym and a Sunday rastro market; the public health centre offers round-the-clock emergency care, with the Valle del Guadalhorce hospital at Cártama about fifteen minutes away. State schools are within walking distance of the centre, and Sunland International at Cártama Estación is the nearest international option. The A-355 reaches Marbella through Monda and Ojén in about thirty-five minutes; Fuengirola's beaches are half an hour via Alhaurín el Grande; Málaga Airport takes around thirty-five minutes. The M-230 bus runs to Málaga through the Alhaurines, and golfers have Lauro's twenty-seven holes and Seve Ballesteros's Alhaurín Golf within twenty minutes.
We have spent twenty years on the Costa del Sol, and our promise inland is the same as on the coast: we will always tell you which homes are over-priced and why. In Coín Centro that means being straight about what a reform will genuinely cost, which streets are too narrow to park on, and when a renovated house is cosmetic work over old plumbing and wiring. If you are weighing the old town against the urbanisations outside it — El Rodeo, Los Montecillos — we will talk you through both honestly. When you are ready, drop us a line.
Most ground floor apartments in Coin Centro are modest, traditional homes of one or two bedrooms, typically somewhere between about 60 and 100 square metres. Many were originally the planta baja of an older townhouse, so layouts can be characterful rather than uniform. A useful number include a small interior patio, a courtyard, or a street-level terrace, which is one of the main reasons buyers choose ground floor over an upper flat here.
The older buildings in the centre are usually two or three storeys without a lift, so a ground floor apartment means no stairs and everything on one level, which suits retirees and anyone wanting easy access to the market square, shops and La Trocha commercial centre. Ground floors are also the type most likely to come with a patio or small garden. The trade-off to check is light and possible damp at street level, and noise on the busier lanes.
Ground floor apartments are generally the most affordable way into the old town, usually priced below an equivalent villa or country plot nearby. Coin sits inland, around 25 to 30 minutes from Malaga Airport and the coast, and offers better value than comparable coastal towns. Condition drives the price as much as size: a ready-to-live-in flat costs more than one needing renovation, and a former commercial unit should have a proper, legal change of use before you commit.
Town houses dominate the centre of Coín — typically two or three storeys with an internal patio and often a roof terrace — followed by ground-floor apartments, many with their own entrance straight off the street. Detached villas are rare in the old streets themselves; for those, buyers usually look to the urbanisations on the edge of town such as El Rodeo or Los Montecillos.
Most town houses in central Coín trade between roughly €150,000 and €350,000, depending chiefly on condition: the lower end buys a structurally sound house that needs updating, while the upper end buys a reformed three- or four-bedroom home. Ground-floor apartments generally run between €100,000 and €200,000. Houses with garages command a premium, because parking is scarce in the old streets.
Fuengirola's beaches are about half an hour by car via Alhaurín el Grande, Marbella is roughly thirty-five minutes on the A-355 through Monda and Ojén, and Málaga Airport takes around thirty-five minutes via the Guadalhorce Valley. By bus, the M-230 connects Coín with Málaga through the Alhaurines, and a separate line runs down to Fuengirola.
Yes. Coín is a working Spanish town rather than a seasonal resort, so the bakeries, banks, schools and tapas bars stay open twelve months a year. La Trocha commercial centre adds a supermarket, cinema and gym, the town's health centre provides twenty-four-hour emergency care, and with roughly one in eight residents born abroad, newcomers settle in without the town ever feeling like an expat enclave.
