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How far apart are prices along this coast?

Across the twenty-two priced municipalities, the dearest, Marbella, asks a little over four times the cheapest, Alora. Two caveats belong with that pair: the Marbella figure is marked pending verification in its own record, and Alora is a June 2026 reading, because July is not published for it. Include the eight sub-municipal entries that carry a figure and the gap widens to about four and a third times, but that longer list is topped by a district of Marbella rather than by a town.

Are the cheaper places on the coast itself?

Mostly not. The lowest figures sit inland, at Alora, Cartama, Coin and the two Alhaurins, or in working towns such as La Linea de la Concepcion and Velez-Malaga. Velez-Malaga needs care: Torre del Mar, a nucleus inside the same municipality, is indexed separately and prices well above the municipal figure. That compares a population centre with a whole municipality, and the two are not even the same month, since the municipal reading is May 2026 and Torre del Mar's is July.

Which places here actually have a railway station?

Two Cercanias lines reach the places covered here. The C-1 links Malaga and Fuengirola and calls at the airport, with five stations inside Torremolinos, two inside Benalmadena, one at Los Boliches and the terminus at Fuengirola. The C-2 runs inland to Alora, serving Cartama, where the station stands in the Estacion nucleus rather than the pueblo, along with Aljaima and Pizarra. San Roque and La Linea station sits in Sotogrande's municipality on the Bobadilla to Algeciras line. There is no railway anywhere east of Malaga city.

Is Nueva Andalucia the most expensive place on this coast?

It is the dearest entry in the table here, which is a narrower claim. Nueva Andalucia is a district of Marbella, published inside the Marbella municipal report, and it is the second dearest of the seven districts priced there. A dear district of a dear municipality pricing above that municipality's average is arithmetic rather than a discovery. Only thirty-three places are covered on this page, so none of it is a statement about anywhere that is not on it.

Does the tram at Velez-Malaga run?

No. A tram was built there and has carried no service since June 2012. A 2024 reactivation costing left the municipality carrying most of the bill, and no official source says it has resumed. It is worth flagging because of the mistake it invites, which is reading a line or a station from an operator's map and treating it as a service that exists. If transport matters to the purchase, the question to ask about any line is not whether it was built but whether it is running now.

What changed at the Gibraltar border in 2026?

Checks on people and goods at the land border were removed under a treaty between the United Kingdom and the European Union signed on 14 July 2026 and provisionally applied from the day after, with controls moved instead to Gibraltar's airport and port under dual Gibraltar and Spanish checks. The second half matters as much as the first: the treaty is provisionally applied and not yet fully ratified, with European Parliament consent indicatively December 2026, and Gibraltar has not joined Schengen. Anyone buying around La Linea de la Concepcion or Sotogrande should take advice on that footing.

Why do three of these places have no price?

Each for a different reason, and the difference matters. Comares has no published figure for any month from August 2025 to July 2026 and does not appear in the Malaga province table, so a buyer there has no market reference and should commission an independent valuation. Puerto Banus is not among the seven districts published for Marbella and has no report of its own, so any average quoted for it is built from an agent's own listings. Mijas Costa is a postcode covering the coastal frontage, not an indexed area.

Are the district and nucleus entries comparable with the towns?

No, and ten of the thirty-three entries here are smaller than a municipality. Nueva Andalucia and San Pedro de Alcantara are districts of Marbella and Puerto Banus an address inside it; La Cala de Mijas, Calahonda and Riviera del Sol are districts of Mijas and Mijas Costa a postcode; Los Boliches is a barrio of Fuengirola, Torre del Mar a nucleus of Velez-Malaga, and Sotogrande a private urbanisation inside San Roque. Los Boliches carries a further trap: two series are published for the barrio, either side of the Fuengirola municipal figure, so check which one a listing falls in.

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