Key Takeaways
- ✓ Our Fuengirola book holds 121 live listings at a median of €625,000.
- ✓ The range runs €215,000 to €3,960,000; only 20 listings sit below €400,000.
- ✓ Apartments are the bulk: 69 of the 121, at a median of €562,600.
- ✓ Across our whole book, 170 of the 212 sea-view listings are priced at €400,000 or more.
- ✓ Los Pacos, one row back, has a median of €399,950 against Carvajal at €1,010,000.
What does a beachfront apartment in Fuengirola cost? The honest framing is a range, not a figure. Our Fuengirola book runs 121 live listings from €215,000 to €3,960,000, with a median of €625,000. The front line sits in the upper half of that, and the size of the step up is the whole point of this article.
One caveat first, because it changes how you should read everything below. Our feed does not carry a per-listing 'beachfront' flag for every property, so we will not pretend to count Fuengirola's front-line stock exactly. What we can do is show you the sea-view distribution across the whole book and the neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood medians in Fuengirola, which between them tell you the price of proximity quite precisely.
Sea views are a €400,000-plus product
Across every town we cover, 212 listings mention sea views. Here is how they distribute by price.
| Price band | Sea-view listings |
|---|---|
| Under €150,000 | 1 |
| €150,000–€250,000 | 10 |
| €250,000–€400,000 | 31 |
| €400,000 and above | 170 |
Eighty percent of the sea-view stock we hold is priced at €400,000 or more, and exactly one listing in the entire book pairs a sea view with a sub-€150,000 price. Separately, 216 listings are tagged as near beach, at a median of €406,050. Those two numbers are the market's answer to 'can I get a sea view cheaply': occasionally, but do not build a plan around it.
Fuengirola, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
| Neighbourhood | Listings | Median asking price |
|---|---|---|
| El Higuerón | 41 | €797,000 |
| Los Pacos | 25 | €399,950 |
| La Calerita | 14 | €634,000 |
| Los Boliches | 8 | €700,000 |
| Carvajal | 7 | €1,010,000 |
| Reserva del Higuerón | 6 | €1,350,000 |
| Playa de los Boliches | 5 | €540,000 |
| Torreblanca del Sol | 4 | €565,000 |
The spread between the cheapest and the dearest of those is €399,950 to €1,350,000, a factor of more than three within a single town of 121 listings. That is the price of a front line, expressed as clearly as our data can express it.
The step down: one row back
Los Pacos is the instructive case. Twenty-five listings, a median of €399,950, and it is the only Fuengirola neighbourhood in our book whose median sits below €400,000. It is where most of the town's genuinely affordable stock lives.
The trade is straightforward. You lose the direct sea outlook and you add a walk. You gain, at the median, roughly €225,000 against the town figure of €625,000. On the Costa del Sol that is enough to buy a garage, a full renovation and a decade of community fees with change left over. For buyers who plan to spend winters here rather than three summer weeks, that trade is usually the right one.
€215,000One-bed bungalow, Los Pacos
Fuengirola · Los Pacos
€358,000One-bed apartment, Los Boliches
Fuengirola · Los Boliches
€450,450Three-bed apartment, Los Pacos
Fuengirola · Los Pacos
€328,000Two-bed apartment, Los Pacos
Fuengirola · Los Pacos
What type of home is on offer
Fuengirola is an apartment town and the split proves it: 69 apartments, 31 penthouses, 9 villas, 8 townhouses and 4 bungalows. The apartment median is €562,600 and the penthouse median is €699,000. Townhouses, of which there are only eight, sit at €1,133,000. That is scarcity pricing in a town where almost nothing is horizontal.
By band, 38 listings fall between €400,000 and €600,000 at a median of €530,000, 30 between €600,000 and €1,000,000 at €741,000, and 33 above €1,000,000 at €1,196,000. That leaves 20 listings below €400,000 in the entire town. If your budget is under €300,000, Fuengirola is a narrow market and you should be prepared to move quickly.
New build dominates: budget for it
Of the 121 Fuengirola listings, 117 are new build and 4 are resales. That is not a stylistic detail, it is a cost line. A resale purchase carries transfer tax; a new build carries VAT plus stamp duty, and the developer's payment schedule is staged rather than paid at completion. In the Valencia region the split is 10% ITP on a resale against 10% IVA plus 1.5% AJD on a new build; Andalusian rates differ and your lawyer should confirm them before you commit. Either way, add the tax before you compare two asking prices.
See the current front-line stock on our Fuengirola beachfront properties page, the wider flat market at Fuengirola apartments, and everything in the town at Fuengirola property for sale. To compare coastlines, our beachfront section covers every town we cover.
Tell us how close you need to be
The most useful question we can ask a Fuengirola buyer is not the budget but the walk: how many minutes from your front door to the sand is acceptable? Answer that and the price follows almost mechanically from the table above.
Tell us your budget and your maximum walk below, and we will send back the listings that satisfy both, or tell you plainly that they do not coexist at your number.