Duplex Penthouses for sale in Mijas.

Mijas, three places in one — the white village on the hill, the coast from La Cala to Calahonda, and workaday Las Lagunas in between.

Who lives in Mijas

Mijas is among the most international corners of the Costa del Sol. The municipal register counts close to eighty nationalities, and you feel it in the school runs, the supermarket aisles and the golf-club bars. British and Scandinavian buyers have been here for decades, alongside Belgian, Dutch and German owners, Eastern European buyers and Spaniards moving down from Madrid. Up in Mijas Pueblo you'll find a quieter, more village-minded crowd who want whitewashed streets and a real plaza. Down on Mijas Costa — in La Cala de Mijas, Calahonda, Riviera del Sol and Miraflores — it's a mix of full-time residents, golf-and-sun retirees and holiday-home owners who let when they're away. Las Lagunas, behind Fuengirola, is where many of the working families live year-round. If you want beach bars and English spoken at the next table, La Cala suits you; if you want Andalucía with a view, the village does.

Architecture & property types

Apartments dominate Mijas, and they're the heart of what we sell here — everything from compact one-beds to large three-bedroom homes in the golf and beachside urbanisations. Ground-floor apartments are the other big strand, prized for good reason: a private garden terrace, no lift to lug shopping up, and direct access to the communal pool, which is exactly what older buyers and families with young children ask for. Villas come next, ranging from modest townhouse-style detacheds in Riviera del Sol and Calahonda up to substantial individual homes with sea views around Mijas Golf, El Chaparral and the hillside above the village. Penthouses round out the mix, the draw being the big solariums with views over the coast to Fuengirola and, on a clear day, the Moroccan coastline. Build styles run from the classic 1980s-90s Mediterranean white-and-terracotta urbanisation through to crisp modern new-builds with floor-to-ceiling glass. We'll always tell you when an older block is solid value and when you're paying new-build money for a so-so refurbishment.

Price expectations

Mijas sits at sensible money by Costa del Sol standards, generally below Marbella and Estepona for what you get. As a rough guide, apartments typically run from the low-to-mid €200,000s up to around €350,000, with ground-floor and beachside homes pushing higher. Townhouses generally sit in the €300,000-to-€500,000 band. Villas span a wide range, from roughly half a million for a smaller or inland house up past €1.5 million for a sea-view home with a pool and land. On a per-square-metre basis Mijas Costa and the village-sierra carry a premium, while El Coto and Campo de Mijas tend to come in lower. These are typical bands, not promises — orientation, sea views, distance to the beach and community fees move the number a lot. We'll always show you where a listing sits against honest comparables, and we'll always tell you plainly which homes are over-priced and why.

Lifestyle, schools & getting around

Golf is a genuine reason people buy here. The municipality is dense with courses — Mijas Golf (Los Lagos and Los Olivos), El Chaparral, Calanova, La Noria and Santana — with the large La Cala Golf Resort and its David Leadbetter academy just inland. The coastline gives you a string of Blue Flag beaches, including La Cala, El Chaparral, El Bombo and the Calahonda beaches, with the long Fuengirola seafront immediately next door. Families have a solid choice of British-curriculum and international schools in and around Mijas, among them St Anthony's College on the Mijas Costa road, The Ark in Las Lagunas, AIM School, and Sunny View just over towards Torremolinos. Getting around is straightforward by Costa standards: the A-7 and AP-7 run the length of the coast, the Cercanías C-1 train from Fuengirola links you to Málaga city and the airport, and Málaga Airport itself is roughly a 20-to-30 minute drive depending on which part of Mijas you're in. The village is the one place where a car genuinely matters — it sits around 430 metres up the hill, donkey-taxis and all.

How we work in Mijas

We don't do hard sells or rushed viewings. We start by working out which Mijas is actually right for you, because a beach-bar lover and a village romantic want opposite things, and there's no point driving you round homes that miss. We know the urbanisations street by street — which terraces bake in the afternoon, which communities have healthy reserves and which carry fees that will sting later, which blocks get the sea breeze and which sit in a still pocket. We'll tell you the truth about a property even when it costs us the sale, because being the agent people send their friends to is worth more to us than one quick commission. If you're weighing up Mijas and want a straight, local opinion on areas, prices or a specific listing, drop us a line.