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Mijas: purchase costs and the yearly bill

The appraised average of 3.235,3 €/m² belongs to the small group of expensive Spanish municipalities. At 45,8 % not a main residence, the holiday half of the stock is the larger half. Mijas is one of the larger municipalities of Málaga, with a housing stock too varied to describe by a single average.

The one-off cost at signing

The Andalusia rate is 7 %, around the middle of the Spanish range. In Mijas the Andalusia transfer tax on a resale runs into tens of thousands of euros, which is why the declared value is scrutinised.

Transfer tax on a resale purchase, at three illustrative prices
Purchase priceTransfer tax
200.000 €14.000 €
350.000 €24.500 €
600.000 €42.000 €

The three prices are round illustrative figures chosen to bracket the ordinary range, not measurements of this market.

The reduced rates, stamp duty and the deed checklist for Andalusia

Put beside its neighbours

Among the Málaga towns and cities covered here, it records the fourth highest number of notarised home sales.

Set the national range end to end and this count of registered residential units lands in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Within Málaga, that is the third highest number of appraisals behind the average among the municipalities this guide covers.

On a national view, its total dwelling stock falls into the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Compared with the rest of Málaga in this guide, it sits third highest on number of urban cadastral units.

How it ranks

Set the national range end to end and this average cadastral value per home lands in the second-dearest twentieth.

Line the Málaga municipalities in this guide up by average cadastral value per home and this one is the second highest.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the share of dwellings that are not a main residence is in the second-dearest twentieth.

On population it is the third highest of the Málaga municipalities this guide covers.

Set the national range end to end and this tax rate on construction work lands in the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

Put beside its neighbours

Within Málaga, that is the fifth lowest appraised value per square metre among the municipalities this guide covers.

Nationally, that share of the urban register that is housing falls in the third-dearest twentieth.

Judged only against Málaga, the premium a new build commands over an older home here is the lowest in the guide.

Across the country, the urban property-tax rate here belongs to the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

What owning costs every year

At 105.469 € per dwelling, the Mijas cadastral base is high enough that the rate matters.

Land classed as rural is taxed at 0,63 %.

The urban IBI rate in Mijas is 0,483 %, on the low side nationally.

180.000 € of cadastral value at 0,483 % is 869 € a year, but the base is dated and a revision would change it sharply.

The cadastral value in this example is a round illustrative figure, not the cadastral value of any particular property here. Ask for the last IBI receipt: it states the real one.

What the appraisers see

585 appraisals stand behind it, enough for the average to be stable.

The appraised average in Mijas is 3.235,3 €/m², which is a coastal or capital-city price.

New and old are appraised at much the same level, 3.302,2 €/m² against 3.230,9 €/m².

The cadastral values are dated

The tax on construction work is 3,2 %, so a refurbishment budget should carry it.

The Mijas register dates from 2004; a future revision could move the yearly bill significantly even if the rate never changes.

A stock built largely for holidays

Almost the whole register is housing: 63.932 residential units out of 94.621 urban ones.

With 45,8 % of dwellings not a main home, Mijas is more holiday market than housing market.

The whole stock came to 62.030 dwellings at the census.

A busy transaction market

63.932 residential units are registered, and a large slice of them turns over annually.

3.190 home sales were notarised in Mijas over the year, well above what its population alone would predict.

First quarter was the busiest quarter and Third quarter the thinnest, but the spread was mild.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter867
Second quarter830
Third quarter678
Fourth quarter815

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