Buying property in Fuengirola.
A proper town on the sea that stays open all year, with the best train on the coast. Priced above Mijas next door, and the beachfront costs about a third more than the streets behind it.
A working town with a seven-kilometre beach and a railway station at the end of it.
Fuengirola is the most town-like place on the central stretch of the coast. It has a market, a port, schools, a bus station and a railway station, and the shops do not shutter in October. The municipality is one of the smallest in the province, about ten square kilometres, so almost all of it is built, almost all of it is apartments, and the town runs in a long strip between the sea and the hills.
The C-1 train is the thing that sets it apart. It runs from the station in the centre through Los Boliches, Torreblanca and Carvajal to the airport in about 33 minutes and on into Málaga. For anyone who does not want to drive every time they leave the house, that line is worth a lot, and it shows in the prices of the streets near it.
The wider Fuengirola & Mijas picture →·New builds in Fuengirola →·New developments, by price →
What I actually know about Fuengirola
- Fuengirola asks €4,452/m² (idealista, September 2026), a record for the town. Prices rose 1.1% in the year to September 2026, after a run of double-digit annual rises through late 2025.
- Idealista splits the town into nine districts. The dearest, El Higuerón at €5,612/m², asks nearly 70% more than the cheapest, the town centre at €3,315/m².
- Playa de los Boliches, the beachfront strip, asks €5,214/m². Los Boliches, the streets behind it, asks €3,947/m². The sea view costs about a third more.
- Los Pacos, on the north side of town, asks €3,524/m² and has the most new building after El Higuerón. It rose 6.8% in the year to September 2026.
- The C-1 train has four stations inside the town: Fuengirola, Los Boliches, Torreblanca and Carvajal. The airport is about 33 minutes, Málaga Centro about 46.
- The beach runs for about seven kilometres along the whole municipality, with a promenade the length of it.
- Sohail Castle, a fortress on the hill at the western end of the beach, hosts the town’s summer concerts.
- The Tuesday market at the fairground is one of the largest on the coast.
- Málaga airport is 25 to 35 minutes by car along the A-7.
9 local facts on file — no brochure talk.
Updated 14 October 2026.
Worth knowing about Fuengirola.
The centre is the cheapest district, and that is not a mistake.
The town centre asks €3,315/m², the lowest figure in Fuengirola. Much of the stock there is 1960s to 1980s blocks on narrow streets, with small windows and no parking. It is lived in all year and it is walkable, which is exactly what some buyers want. It is also where a careful look at the building, not just the flat, matters most.
Front line is a different market from two streets back.
Playa de los Boliches asks €5,214/m² against €3,947/m² for Los Boliches behind it. The same size of apartment can cost a third more for the sea in front of it. Decide early whether you are buying the view or the town, because the price of the two is not close.
El Higuerón is a hill, and the hill straddles two towns.
El Higuerón is the most expensive district at €5,612/m², with newer homes, bigger terraces and the view over the bay. It is a car district, not a walking one. The hill also runs on into Benalmádena, where idealista lists its own El Higuerón district at €4,892/m², so the same address can sit in either municipality. Check which town hall you are buying under, because the IBI and the rules differ.
Los Pacos is where new building costs least.
Los Pacos has eight of the new developments on file for Fuengirola, second only to El Higuerón. It is an ordinary residential district on the north side of town, with the lowest starting prices in the municipality. It is a ten-minute walk to the centre and the station. It does not have the beach on its doorstep, and the price reflects that.
There is very little land, so there are very few villas.
Fuengirola is around ten square kilometres and nearly all of it is built. Detached houses are rare and most of what exists is in Torreblanca and on the hill. A buyer who wants a garden at this price point is usually better served next door in Mijas, where there is room.
Asking is not achieved.
Every figure on this page is what sellers are asking on idealista. After two years of fast rises the town has gone flat, up 1.1% in a year and unchanged over the summer. A flat market is where the gap between the asking price and the price that gets agreed is widest, and that is where the negotiation happens.
What it costs, and what it costs to hold
Fuengirola asks €4,452/m² as of September 2026, a hair under its own record of €4,454/m² set in May. That is about 20% above Mijas next door at €3,717/m² and 6% above Benalmádena at €4,188/m². The year to September 2026 added 1.1%. The year before that added over 16%, so the town has just come off a steep climb and settled.
On top of the price, budget 10 to 11% in buying costs on a resale: transfer tax, notary, land registry and legal fees. A new build is taxed differently and works out a little higher. Then there is the annual side: IBI, rubbish collection and the community fee. In an older front-line block, ask for the last two years of community accounts and the minutes of the last meeting. Lifts, facades and sea-facing balconies are where the big bills come from.
€/m² figures are idealista asking prices for September 2026, the same source as the town table used across the rest of this site.
Where it sits, district by district.
Fuengirola is one small town, but idealista breaks it into nine districts and the spread between the top and the bottom is close to 70%. This is the whole table for September 2026, with the two neighbouring municipalities underneath, so you can see what the beachfront and the hill actually add.
The Los Boliches line is the one most buyers end up on. It has the station, the market and the shops within a walk, it is a quarter cheaper than the front line it backs onto, and its price has risen 5.8% in the year while the beachfront has stalled. If the sea view is not the reason you are coming, it deserves a full morning of your time.
What each rung of the ladder looks like.
These are the starting prices of the new developments on file for Fuengirola, from the developers’ own price lists, to show what each rung of the ladder looks like. Resale prices run in the same bands and, in the older centre, a little lower.
Developers’ starting prices from the price lists on file in October 2026. Each development has its own page under new developments in Fuengirola, with the price list, the plans and my read on the location. Tell me the rung you are on and I will bring you what is genuinely available, new or resale, on the week you are looking.
Two questions about new builds in Fuengirola
What does a three-bedroom new build cost in Fuengirola?
Across the 86 three-bedroom homes on the developers’ current lists, the middle size is about 156 m² built and the middle price is €995,000. The cheapest is a three-bedroom ground-floor apartment of 106 m² at Unique Infinity, €599,000.
Are there new-build penthouses in Fuengirola?
Yes. 16 of the 29 developments here have penthouses on the developers’ current lists, 52 in all. The cheapest is a two-bedroom penthouse of 65 m² at Calle Independencia 5, €343,500.
Nearby, and worth a look.
Mijas · Sep 2026 €/m²
Three places under one name: the white village on the hill, the town that runs into Fuengirola, and twelve kilometres of coast. The same sea as Fuengirola for about a sixth less per square metre, and more new building than almost anywhere else on the Costa del Sol.
El Higuerón · Sep 2026 €/m²
The hill at the eastern end of Fuengirola, where most of the town’s new building is, with the view over the bay and a train station at the bottom. Priced a quarter above the town it belongs to.
Los Pacos · Sep 2026 €/m²
The ordinary residential quarter on the north side of Fuengirola, with the cheapest new-build starting prices in the town and the fastest-rising price line. Not on the beach, and priced accordingly.
Las Lagunas · Sep 2026 €/m²
The town part of Mijas, joined to Fuengirola, where most of the municipality lives and most of its building happens. The lowest starting prices on the central stretch of the coast, two or three kilometres from the sea.
Looking for a buyer’s agent in Fuengirola?
That is what I do. I’m Michael from Lunessa Homes — a British buyer’s agent living in Málaga, fluent in Spanish, working on the buyer’s side of the search. One client at a time, and Fuengirola sits inside the stretch of coast I cover, Estepona to Nerja.
- Viewings you don’t have to fly for. I walk Fuengirola myself and report back straight — including the places that aren’t worth your trip.
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Two related pages: buying a property to renovate in Fuengirola, and selling a home here.
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