Buying property in Calahonda and Riviera del Sol.
The big urbanisations at the Marbella end of Mijas, around the Miraflores golf course and above two Blue Flag beaches. Priced at or a little under the Mijas average, with five new developments from €168,445.
Two big urbanisations at the Marbella end of Mijas, around a golf course.
Calahonda and Riviera del Sol are the large urbanisations at the western end of Mijas, where the municipality meets Marbella next to Elviria and Cabopino. Sitio de Calahonda climbs the hillside from the coast road, and Riviera del Sol sits beside it around the Miraflores golf course, with La Cala de Mijas a few minutes east. Idealista lists them as two districts, at €3,706 and €3,481 per square metre, both at or under the Mijas average.
Five of the developments on this site are here, one in Calahonda and four in Riviera del Sol, from €168,445 at Calahonda Sunset to €1,632,397 for a townhouse at Aalto Residences. Coral Mijas, 99 two bedroom apartments and penthouses just west of the Miraflores course, sits in the middle at €345,000. The beach is four to nine minutes by car from all five, and Marbella about twenty.
The wider Fuengirola & Mijas picture →·New builds in Mijas and La Cala →·New developments, by price →
What I actually know about Calahonda and Riviera del Sol
- Sitio de Calahonda asks €3,706/m² and Riviera del Sol €3,481/m² (idealista, September 2026), against €3,717/m² for Mijas as a whole and €4,452/m² for Fuengirola.
- Five new developments are on file, from €168,445 to €1,632,397 on the developers’ lists in October 2026, one in Calahonda and four in Riviera del Sol. Three are under construction and two are selling before building starts.
- On the cheapest home in each that publishes its size, the new building works out between €3,000 per square metre at Residencial Golf View and €6,084 at Aalto Residences.
- Two Calahonda beaches hold a Blue Flag for 2026, Calahonda I at Royal Beach and La Luna, and Calahonda at Riviera. The developments here are four to nine minutes from the sand by car.
- Miraflores, an eighteen-hole, par 71 golf course inside Riviera del Sol, opened in April 1990. Riviera Hill is three minutes from it by car, and Calanova is six minutes from Aalto Residences.
- The M-220 bus between Las Lagunas, Fuengirola and Marbella stops at Calahonda and Sitio de Calahonda. The M-119 loops through Riviera del Sol and Calahonda to La Cala and Fuengirola, and the M-320 runs between Sitio de Calahonda and Málaga bus station.
- The Junta’s school directory lists two nurseries in Calahonda and Riviera del Sol and no state school. The nearest are in La Cala, and English International College, one of the British schools on this coast, is at Ricmar in east Marbella.
- The nearest surgery of the Andalusian health service is in La Cala, on Avenida Sierra de las Nieves. The public hospital is the Hospital Costa del Sol, on the A-7 at Marbella.
- From the developments here, Málaga airport is 24 to 30 minutes by car, Marbella 19 to 24 and Puerto Banús about 20. La Cala de Mijas is 7 to 10 minutes, and the shopping centres at La Cañada and Miramar about 15 from Riviera Hill.
9 local facts on file — no brochure talk.
Updated 25 October 2026.
Worth knowing about Calahonda and Riviera del Sol.
Calahonda is many complexes under one name.
Sitio de Calahonda and Riviera del Sol are made up of dozens of separate complexes, each with its own community, pool, gardens and rules, and a listing may give only the urbanisation’s name. What you buy into is the complex as much as the home: its fee, the state of its roofs and pools, and the minutes of its last meeting. Community fees sets out what to ask for. The Buenavista estate, where several new villas are being built, is a separate estate on the hills above Fuengirola.
A cooperative is a different way to buy.
Calahonda Sunset, the lowest starting price on file at €168,445 before tax, is being built by a housing cooperative. You join as a member and pay towards the building of the homes rather than buying from a developer, and a management company runs the process. The floor areas of the one bedroom homes and a start date on site are not yet in writing. I go through the cooperative’s rules, the management fee and the guarantee on each payment with you, line by line, before you commit.
Most of the new homes are a year or more away.
Residencial Golf View, under construction since October 2025, has the nearest handover, estimated for November 2026. Coral Mijas and Aalto Residences are due in the second half of 2027, and Riviera Hill, where work has not started, in the last quarter of 2028. The payments differ too: 30% within weeks of reserving at Coral Mijas, 15% and then another 15% during the building at Riviera Hill. Buying off plan explains the bank guarantee that should cover each one.
The quick road to the airport has a toll.
The AP-7’s main toll plaza is at Calahonda: €5.70 for a car in 2026, and €9.25 from June to September and for seventeen days around Easter. The A-7 coast road is free. The drive times on this page are the developers’ own and do not say which road they assume, so I time the route you would really use, at the hour you would use it.
Golf frontage is a view, not a membership.
Residencial Golf View looks across the road at the Miraflores driving range, and Riviera Hill and Coral Mijas are three and four minutes from the club by car. Living beside the course gives you the green outlook and the quiet. A round, or a membership, is a separate matter with the club, at its own price.
Riviera del Sol has been rising fastest.
Riviera del Sol asks €3,481/m², up 14.3% in the year to September 2026. Those are sellers’ asking prices, and in a market rising that fast some sellers ask ahead of it. The last sold prices in the same complex are the number to hold them to, and that is the number I go and find. Aalto apart, the new builds that publish their sizes work out between €3,000 and €4,473 a metre on their cheapest homes, close to the resale asking prices around them.
What it costs, and what it costs to hold
Sitio de Calahonda asks €3,706/m² as of September 2026 and Riviera del Sol €3,481/m², up 14.3% in the year. Both sit at or under the Mijas average of €3,717/m², and a fifth to a quarter under Elviria · Cabopino across the Marbella boundary, which asked €4,623/m² in August. The new developments on file start at €168,445 at Calahonda Sunset, then €290,000 at Riviera Hill, and €330,000 and €345,000 for two bedroom homes at Residencial Golf View and Coral Mijas. The townhouses at Aalto Residences start at €1,632,397.
A new build pays 10% VAT and 1.2% stamp duty on top of the price, plus notary, registry and your lawyer, so plan for 12 to 14% in all. A resale pays 7% transfer tax instead, about 10 to 11% in all. Then the annual side: IBI to Mijas town hall, rubbish collection and the community fee. In an established complex, ask for the last two years of accounts and the minutes of the last meeting. In a new one, ask for the budget. Riviera Hill’s grounds carry a heated indoor pool, a spa, a gym and a concierge, and the fee is what pays for them.
€/m² figures are idealista asking prices for September 2026, the same source as the town table used across the rest of this site, and August 2026 for Marbella’s districts. New-build starting prices and €/m² are from the developers’ lists on file in October 2026, before VAT, cheapest home in each development.
Where it sits inside Mijas.
Idealista splits Mijas into eleven districts, and the two on this page sit either side of the middle, at or under the municipal average. This is the whole table for September 2026, with Fuengirola underneath and, for the boundary, Marbella’s Elviria · Cabopino district from August.
The Elviria · Cabopino line is the one to hold this page against. It is the same coast over the Marbella boundary, and it asked €4,623/m² in August 2026, a quarter more than Sitio de Calahonda. Much of that difference is the name on the deed. If the beach, the golf and the drive to Puerto Banús matter more to you than the name, Calahonda gives you all three for less.
What each rung of the ladder looks like.
These are the starting prices of the five new developments on file for Calahonda and Riviera del Sol, from the developers’ own price lists, cheapest first. Four start under €350,000. The fifth, Aalto Residences, is thirteen townhouses from €1,632,397.
Developers’ starting prices from the price lists on file in October 2026, before VAT. Each development has its own page under new developments in Mijas, with the photos, the distances and my read on the location. Tell me the rung you are on and I will bring you what is genuinely available, new or resale, on the week you are looking.
Two questions about new builds in Calahonda and Riviera del Sol
What do the two-bedroom new builds in Calahonda and Riviera del Sol come to?
Across the 80 two-bedroom apartments and penthouses on the developers’ current lists, the middle size is about 95 m² built, with a terrace of about 13 m², and the middle price is €370,000. The cheapest is €325,000.
When will the new builds in Calahonda and Riviera del Sol be finished?
The developers give a handover date for all 5 developments here. The first is Residencial Golf View, with handover in November 2026, and the last is Riviera Hill, with handover in the fourth quarter of 2028. These are the developers’ own estimates.
Nearby, and worth a look.
Fuengirola · Sep 2026 €/m²
A proper town on the sea that stays open all year, with the best train on the coast. Priced above Mijas next door, and the beachfront costs about a third more than the streets behind it.
Mijas · Sep 2026 €/m²
Three places under one name: the white village on the hill, the town that runs into Fuengirola, and twelve kilometres of coast. The same sea as Fuengirola for about a sixth less per square metre, and more new building than almost anywhere else on the Costa del Sol.
El Higuerón · Sep 2026 €/m²
The hill at the eastern end of Fuengirola, where most of the town’s new building is, with the view over the bay and a train station at the bottom. Priced a quarter above the town it belongs to.
Los Pacos · Sep 2026 €/m²
The ordinary residential quarter on the north side of Fuengirola, with the cheapest new-build starting prices in the town and the fastest-rising price line. Not on the beach, and priced accordingly.
Looking for a buyer’s agent in Calahonda and Riviera del Sol?
That is what I do. I’m Michael from Lunessa Homes — a British buyer’s agent living in Málaga, fluent in Spanish, working on the buyer’s side of the search. One client at a time, and Calahonda and Riviera del Sol sits inside the stretch of coast I cover, Estepona to Nerja.
- Viewings you don’t have to fly for. I walk Calahonda and Riviera del Sol myself and report back straight — including the places that aren’t worth your trip.
- A price sense you can hold me to. Sitio de Calahonda · Sep 2026 €/m² is €3,706. When an asking price ignores that, I’ll tell you.
- Local, not general. 20 min to Puerto Banús by car — the kind of detail that decides a street, and only shows up on the ground.
- The parts that trip people up. The NIE, the lawyer, the bank, the paperwork in Spanish — handled alongside the search, not left to you afterwards.
Two related pages: buying a property to renovate in Calahonda and Riviera del Sol, and selling a home here.
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