Costa del Sol

Torremolinos, Spain

The first coastal town west of Málaga airport — six kilometres from the terminal, with four beaches, the Carihuela seafront and its own stops on the Cercanías line.

About Torremolinos

Torremolinos is the first coastal town west of Málaga airport — six kilometres from the terminal to the seafront, closer than anywhere else on the Costa del Sol. The municipality runs in three bands: the beach front from La Carihuela through El Bajondillo to Playamar and Los Álamos; the town centre above it around Calle San Miguel, reached from the beach by a lift cut into the cliff; and the residential slopes of Montemar and El Pinillo behind. Three Cercanías stops sit inside the municipality, which is why the car here is genuinely optional.

Across the new-build schemes currently on the market in Torremolinos (September 2026), asking prices run from €290,000 to €1,482,000, spread over ten schemes and roughly 230 homes.

Torremolinos Property Market — Prices and Stock

Ten schemes are in construction or recently delivered, holding roughly 230 homes between them — an unusually deep pipeline for a town of this footprint, and the reason the price ladder here is legible rather than anecdotal.

Entry points in our selection: one-bedroom apartments from €290,000; two bedrooms with a terrace from about €360,000; three bedrooms from €429,000; and four-bedroom penthouses in the largest Carihuela scheme reaching €1,482,000.

Stock is dominated by apartments: one to four bedrooms, most schemes offering ground-floor homes with terraces, middle floors, and penthouses with solariums. Townhouses appear only occasionally.

Sub-Districts of Torremolinos

La Carihuela — the old fishing quarter on the western seafront, low houses behind a kilometre of sand and the line of seafood restaurants that draws people from the whole coast. The largest current schemes sit here.

El Bajondillo — directly below the town centre, reached by the cliff lift; the closest beach to the shops and the Cercanías.

Playamar and Los Álamos — the eastern beaches running towards the airport, wider and quieter, with lower-density blocks along the front.

Town centre — Calle San Miguel and the streets around Plaza Costa del Sol: the shopping, the market and the everyday services that keep working through the winter.

Montemar and El Pinillo — the residential slopes inland, quieter and greener, where the new-build is cheaper per metre and the sea is a short drive rather than a walk.

Beaches

Promenade

Cercanías Train

Airport

Restaurants

Nightlife

Living in Torremolinos

Beaches

Four beaches, each with its own crowd. La Carihuela is the one people mean when they talk about eating in Torremolinos: a kilometre of sand with the old fishermen's houses behind it and espeto de sardinas grilled over boat-shaped fires. El Bajondillo lies under the centre and is reached by a lift cut into the cliff. Playamar and Los Álamos run east, wider and emptier, towards the airport.

Getting around

Three Cercanías stops inside the municipality put Málaga city centre at about twenty minutes and the airport at under ten, without a car. The line continues west to Benalmádena and Fuengirola, which makes the whole lower coast reachable on a train ticket — unusual in Spain outside the big cities.

Eating and evenings

La Carihuela for fish, Calle San Miguel and the Plaza Costa del Sol for everyday shopping and terraces, and a nightlife scene that has been part of the town's character since the sixties. Torremolinos has also been, for decades, one of the most openly gay-friendly towns in southern Europe, and the summer Pride is among the largest in Andalusia.

A town, not a season

Torremolinos has been an independent municipality since 1988, when it separated from Málaga, and it behaves like one: schools, health centres, a weekly market and a working high street that do not close when the visitors leave. That is the practical difference from the purpose-built stretches further west — in February the shops are open and the buses run.