134 homes in Casares Costa from 390,000 EUR, with golf views, nine west-facing blocks, pool and gym. What you gain and what you give up.

312 apartments in Mijas from 239,000 EUR, with private terrace and parking included. The smallest unit is 39 m2. Here is when that works.

The largest scheme under half a million in our data: 218 homes in Los Pacos, Fuengirola, from 249,000 EUR, five minutes from the beach by car.

The lowest Marbella price in our data: 395,000 EUR for a home in Nueva Andalucía with rooftop pool, gym and a private terrace.

113 homes in the Golf Valley from 810,000 EUR, with indoor spa, gym, coworking and cinema. Built sizes 80-375 m2.

12 detached villas by architect Pablo Villarroel from 3.25 million EUR. 548-924 m2 built, 1,000-2,000 m2 plots, walking distance to the beach.

The entry point to Benahavís new build: 110 villa-like apartments and 10 villas on a 158,000 m2 site, 6% built. From 830,000 EUR.

Six bedrooms, 470 m2 and a 1,500 m2 plot inside Marbella Club Golf Resort. The highest price per square metre in our Benahavis data, and what that buys.

Mijas is the second-largest new-build market on the Costa del Sol in our portfolio: 55 developments, starting at €225,000 with a median starting price of €590,000. Only Estepona has more. But Mijas is not one market — it is four, stacked between the mountain and the sea, and the price gap between them is wider than between most towns. The numbers Developments listed55Starting price,...

Thirty-one of the 632 new-build developments we list on the Costa del Sol start below €300,000 — 4.9% of the market. Nineteen of them offer nothing larger than 115 m², and only three have four bedrooms or more. Here is what that budget actually buys, town by town, using the lowest advertised price for each development. Where the €300,000 market is TownDevelopments under...