Mijas Pueblo Properties for Sale

Mijas is the only municipality on the Costa del Sol where a donkey holds a working licence — and the burro-taxis of its white hill village are the most misleading thing about it. Behind the postcard sits a sprawling town that runs from 430 metres down to twelve kilometres of coast, holding three distinct property markets and prices a clear step below Marbella. This is a 2026 buyer''s guide to where the value actually sits.

A decade ago, a son inheriting a €1.5 million villa in Mijas faced a Spanish inheritance tax bill of €474,260. Under the rules now in force in Andalucía, the same inheritance produces a bill of roughly €4,742 — and if the estate had been worth under €1 million per heir, nothing at all. For the thousands of foreign families who own property between Marbella and Casares, the question of what happens to a Spanish home on death has quietly become one of the most favourable parts of the entire ownership equation. It has also become one of the least understood.

Understand when a new-build makes sense, when resale is the better option, and what to compare before you reserve.