Fifty-two places, read one at a time.

The six groups below are working groups, not administrations. Five of them sit in the province of Málaga; Sotogrande straddles the Cádiz border, which is why a purchase there answers to a different provincial administration than one in Mijas. Within a group, an area may be a municipality in its own right, a village, a district of a larger town, or a single gated urbanisation.

That distinction decides more than it looks. The municipality is the body that levies the IBI, sets the plusvalía municipal and grants the building and first-occupation licences — so two neighbourhoods a few minutes apart can sit under different rules simply because a boundary runs between them. Where a page names a municipality, it names the one that actually holds the file.

Costa del Sol, the Golden Triangle and Marbella East are marketing regions. They are useful shorthand and they are not places: none of them has a boundary, a town hall or a tax rate. You will hear them in conversation here, but never as the subject of a page — every page below is about somewhere that exists on a map.

Not every area below carries a page for every service. Where a place has nothing of its own to say about letting or off-plan — no licence question particular to it, no seasonal pattern worth describing — the page simply does not exist. That is a decision, not an omission. A directory that covered every possible combination would be padding most of them, and you would have no way of telling which.