How much does a square metre cost on the Costa del Sol in 2026?
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The median asking price on the Costa del Sol is 4.750 € per square metre in Q3 2026, measured across 9.166 catalogue listings. New builds ask about 31 percent more per m2 than resale properties.
What is the median asking price per square metre on the Costa del Sol?
The whole catalogue, new builds and resale properties together, carries a median asking price of 4.750 € per square metre in the Q3 2026 measurement. That figure comes from 9.166 active listings, so it is a large sample, and it is a median, not an average: half the listings ask less per m2, half ask more. The average is pulled far higher by a small luxury tail, which is why we do not lead with it.The spread behind that median is wide. The cheapest listing in the catalogue asks 100.000 € in total and the most expensive 35,000,000 €. A single coast-wide €/m2 figure is a starting point for a budget, never a substitute for the town-level numbers below.
0 €/m28.000 €/m2
- Resale properties (8.880 listings)4.710 €/m2
- Whole catalogue (9.166 listings)4.750 €/m2
- New build (286 projects)6.167 €/m2
Which Costa del Sol towns cost the most per square metre?
The same Q3 2026 snapshot breaks the catalogue down by town. All rows below come from one consistent roll-up, so they are directly comparable with each other. The listing count is shown for every row because a median over a small sample moves more from one quarter to the next.
| Town | Median asking €/m2 | Listings in sample |
|---|---|---|
| Ojén | 7.273 € | 43 |
| Higuerón | 6.800 € | 71 |
| Marbella | 6.183 € | 2.361 |
| Benahavís | 5.666 € | 605 |
| Fuengirola | 5.377 € | 604 |
| Los Arqueros | 4.901 € | 49 |
| Estepona | 4.847 € | 1.519 |
| Málaga | 4.760 € | 280 |
| Benalmádena | 4.433 € | 382 |
| Torremolinos | 4.431 € | 130 |
| Mijas | 4.286 € | 1.001 |
| Sotogrande | 4.037 € | 170 |
| Nerja | 3.973 € | 52 |
| Manilva | 3.313 € | 321 |
| Casares | 3.302 € | 256 |
Two patterns are worth reading out of the table. First, the Marbella area (Marbella itself, Benahavís, Ojén) holds the top of the coast, at roughly 30 to 75 percent above the Mijas and Estepona level. Second, the west end beyond Estepona (Manilva, Casares) is the cheapest coastal stretch per square metre in the catalogue, at around 3.300 € per m2.
What do asking prices per m2 tell you, and what do they hide?
Every number on this page is an asking price. Spain does not publish per-listing sold prices, so no portal or agency can honestly show you what sellers actually achieved on specific homes. Asking medians are still useful: they tell you where a market positions itself and how towns rank against each other, and the ranking is much more stable than any single figure.What they hide is negotiation room and withdrawn stock. A listing that sells 8 percent under asking, or never sells at all, looks identical in this data to one that sold at full price. Official sold-price statistics for Málaga province exist at province level and we track them separately in our quarterly market reports.
What the number seems to sayWhat it actually supports
- The coast asks 4.750 € per m2
- True as a median of 9.166 asking prices. It says nothing about what any single home is worth.
- New builds cost 31 percent more
- True per m2 at the median, and partly a product-mix effect. The total-price medians are much closer: 641.000 € against 680.000 €.
- Prices per m2 equal value
- No. A 90 m2 apartment with a sea view and a 90 m2 apartment by the motorway can carry the same €/m2 in a table and be entirely different purchases.
What these price figures cannot tell you
Everything here is an asking price from our own catalogue, measured 2026-08-12. Sold prices per listing are not public in Spain, so achieved prices can sit below every number on this page.This is one catalogue, not the whole market. It is large (9.166 listings across the coast), but a market-wide census does not exist, and different portals will show different medians because they hold different stock.Per-type €/m2 medians (apartment against villa) are not published here because the data does not carry them yet. A coast median that mixes both should not be read as an apartment price.This is the first quarterly measurement. Whether these figures are rising or falling cannot be answered from one snapshot; the trend page starts building the answer from Q4 2026.
Most common questions
- Is 4.750 € per m2 what I will actually pay on the Costa del Sol?
- It is the median asking price across the whole catalogue in Q3 2026. Half the coast asks less. Your real figure depends on town, distance to the beach and property type: Manilva and Casares ask around 3.300 € per m2 while Marbella asks over 6.000 €.
- Are these sold prices or asking prices?
- Asking prices. Per-listing sold prices are not public in Spain. Official province-level sold-price statistics exist with a delay and we track those in our quarterly market reports.
- Why does new build cost more per square metre but almost the same in total?
- Because new-build homes are smaller on average. New stock is 59 percent apartments, so a higher rate on fewer square metres lands near the same total price: median 641.000 € for a new build against 680.000 € for a resale property.
- How often are these numbers updated?
- The catalogue itself updates continuously; this statistics page is rebuilt from a dated quarterly snapshot so every figure on it can be traced to one measurement date. The current figures are from 2026-08-12.