Fuengirola rents: the declared figures
At 9,29 €/m², Fuengirola is an expensive rental market by Spanish standards. Five years have added 27,2 % to the reference, well ahead of general inflation. With 4.682 declared leases behind it, the quartiles are stable from year to year.
Rents declared on income-tax returns for main-residence leases, not asking prices. They lag the market and exclude holiday lets.
Against the rest of the province
Ranked against its neighbours in Málaga, it holds the third highest number of declared leases of the group.
Against every municipality in this guide, its population lands in the band just inside the top fifth.
Take Málaga alone: among the municipalities here, its upper-quartile rent per square metre is the fifth highest.
Measured against the whole batch, that reference rent per square metre sits in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.
Where it sits against the rest
Set against the other Málaga municipalities in this guide, it has the sixth highest median declared monthly rent.
Taking every municipality covered here together, the lower-quartile rent per square metre is in the band just inside the top fifth.
Within Málaga, that is the sixth lowest five-year change in the reference rent among the municipalities this guide covers.
Taking every municipality covered here together, the share of main homes that are rented is in the top quarter.
In context
Judged only against Málaga, the share of dwellings that are not a main residence here is the sixth lowest in the guide.
Put beside the rest of the country, its median floor area of a let flat belongs to the eighth twentieth from the bottom.
Testing a quote against the declared figures
Five years have added 27,2 % to the reference, well ahead of general inflation.
675,00 € a month is the median declared rent in Fuengirola, above the national middle.
| Floor area | At the lower quartile | At the median | At the upper quartile |
|---|---|---|---|
| 55 m² | 395 € | 511 € | 656 € |
| 75 m² | 539 € | 697 € | 895 € |
| 100 m² | 718 € | 929 € | 1.193 € |
The floor areas are round illustrative sizes used to show the arithmetic, not measurements of any particular flat.
A sizeable rental sector
30,63 % of dwellings in Fuengirola are not a main residence, so some stock drifts between uses.
20,48 % of Fuengirola main homes are rented, more than the national pattern.
The reference figures
With 4.682 declared leases behind it, the quartiles are stable from year to year.
7,18 €/m² to 11,93 €/m² covers the middle half of declared leases in Fuengirola — ordinary dispersion.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Lower quartile | 7,18 €/m² |
| Median | 9,29 €/m² |
| Upper quartile | 11,93 €/m² |
| Median monthly rent | 675,00 € |
| Median floor area | 80 m² |
Related guides
Sources and licences
- MIVAU, Sistema Estatal de Referencia del Precio del Alquiler de Vivienda (SERPAVI), base 2011-2024. Period: 2024; 2019-2024. Retrieved 16 September 2026. Licence: MIVAU legal notice: reuse "para usos comerciales y no comerciales" with the source and its last-update date cited. Values are rents declared on income-tax returns, not asking prices.
- INE, Censo de Población y Viviendas 2021, viviendas por tipo (tabla 59525). Period: 2021. Retrieved 16 September 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (INE legal notice). Attribution: "Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE".
- INE, Censo de Población y Viviendas 2021, régimen de tenencia en municipios de más de 50.000 habitantes y capitales (tabla 59529). Period: 2021. Retrieved 16 September 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (INE legal notice). Attribution: "Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE".
- MIVAU, registro de zonas de mercado residencial tensionado (art. 18 Ley 12/2023). Period: 16 September 2026. Retrieved 16 September 2026. Licence: MIVAU legal notice: reuse for commercial and non-commercial purposes with the source and its last-update date cited.