Prelaunch projects in La Cala de Mijas: what is actually coming in 2026

How many new developments have actually launched in La Cala de Mijas since 2025?

Seven entirely new schemes came to market in La Cala de Mijas and the surrounding Mijas Costa area during 2025 and 2026: The Kove by Kronos Homes, Valley Views and Almare by Metrovacesa, 360° by Cordia, Arosa, Balance Nova, and Riviera Hill. On top of that, several existing schemes released new phases, including Solana Village phase 3, The Meadows phase 2 at La Cala Golf Resort, Royal Palms phases IV-3 and IV-4, and the second phase of Soleia Living at El Chaparral.

So no, the wave has not stopped. It has changed shape. Most of what launched in the last eighteen months came from national developers with land already in hand, and the pace of announcements from smaller local promoters has thinned out.

The Kove is the largest of them at 166 homes, unveiled in May 2025 and put on sale in late April 2026. Metrovacesa’s Almare is 48 homes from €659,000 plus IVA, launched in April 2026 on the same plot the company had previously marketed as Calma Mijas. That relaunch tells you something about how long a plot can sit between one name and the next.

What does prelaunch actually mean on the Costa del Sol?

Prelaunch has no legal definition in Spain. Developers use it for anything between “we own the land and we are testing demand” and “we have the licence and units go on sale next month”. In practice it usually means the building licence, the licencia de obras, has not been granted yet, because a developer with a licence in hand normally starts selling rather than collecting names.

Paying a reservation deposit at this stage is normal and it is not a warning sign. It is simply how you take a specific home off the market so nobody else can pick it while the paperwork catches up. You sign a reservation contract, you pay a fixed fee, and that unit is yours to convert into a purchase.

What changes at the licence is the legal machinery around your money. Under the first additional provision of Ley 38/1999 de Ordenación de la Edificación, a developer must guarantee the return of amounts paid on account “desde la obtención de la licencia de edificación”, through a seguro de caución or a bank aval, and must take those payments into a special account held separately from the developer’s own funds. Before the licence exists, that regime has not started. So asking for a bank guarantee during prelaunch is asking for a document that cannot yet be issued.

Which means the reservation contract is the document that protects you at this stage, and it is the one to read properly. What happens to your money if the licence is refused or the project does not go ahead? Who holds it, the developer or a lawyer’s client account? How long do you have before you must sign the private purchase contract, and what are the terms if you walk away then? Those answers vary a lot between developers, and they are negotiable more often than buyers assume.

Mijas does not publish a public register of granted licences. The town hall’s Licencias de Obras Mayores page carries the procedure and the forms but no list of what has been approved, and the minor works register has not been updated since 2013. So for almost every project on this coast, licence status is whatever the developer chooses to tell you. Three schemes in the Mijas area publish it voluntarily: Calahonda Sunset, Savia and Soleia Living. That is three out of several dozen.

Why buy in prelaunch at all?

Price, mostly. Prices normally go up when a project moves from prelaunch into launch, and launch normally follows the granting of the building licence, because that is the point at which the developer can start taking staged payments under the protection of a guarantee and no longer needs to price for uncertainty. Buyers who reserved before that step are holding a unit at the earlier price.

Vission Hills in La Cala de Mijas has just been through the full sequence. Buyers reserved specific homes during the prelaunch phase and paid their reservation deposits to hold them, and in August 2026 the scheme went to public launch with the sales office open on site at Calle Sierra de Mijas. The people who reserved during prelaunch kept both their home and the price they had agreed. That is the sequence working exactly as it should, and it is how a large share of the best homes in this area change hands.

It is also a good illustration of what gets bought early. Vission Hills is a gated scheme from Vía Célere built in phases: Vission Hills I is 142 apartments of one, two and three bedrooms across five buildings, Vission Hills II adds two and three bedroom apartments together with four bedroom townhouses, and Vission Hills III follows with more two and three bedroom apartments. A social club sits at the centre of it, with a residents’ lounge, a gym, a coworking space and a spa with an indoor pool looking out to the sea. Vía Célere puts the village a couple of minutes away and Málaga airport at around twenty. Every home is built to an A energy rating, and Vía Célere estimates that saves around €950 a year against an equivalent F rated home, based on a representative 95 m² dwelling. The elevated plots with the open sea views are the ones that go in prelaunch.

The second reason is choice. In a scheme that sells well, the corner units, the ground floors with the biggest gardens and the top floors with the sea views go first, and they go to the people who were on a list before the public sales launch. On a coast where Savills reports that between 30 and 50 per cent of homes in well positioned schemes sell before construction starts, the best units are frequently gone by the time a project appears on a portal.

Which is the practical argument for having someone on the inside. Prelaunch allocations are handled through the developers’ commercial partners rather than advertised, so whether you hear about a release at all depends on who you are registered with. We hold that dialogue with the developers behind the projects on this page, and our clients go on our list.

What you are trading for that is time. Licences move at their own pace, so a prelaunch reservation is a commitment made before the schedule is fixed. Two things make that comfortable: a developer with homes actually delivered in the province, and a reservation contract that spells out what happens if dates move. Both are easy to establish before you sign, and when they are in place, prelaunch is one of the better entry points on this coast.

Iris Jardinana and Magnolia Jardinana: coming soon since 2020

Iris Jardinana and Magnolia Jardinana are the last two unbuilt phases of the Jardinana scheme in La Cala de Mijas. Both have been listed as “Próximamente” by Grupo Jamsa for years, and both project pages are empty: no unit count, no typologies, no sizes, no prices, no delivery date. The pages were last modified on 3 August 2026 and still contain nothing but a contact form.

The built part of Jardinana is real and finished. Azalea completed in April 2019 with 94 homes, made up of 84 apartments and 10 townhouses. Lotus completed in September 2021 with 109 two and three bedroom apartments. Together that is 203 delivered homes, which is a decent record.

The unbuilt part has a longer history than most buyers realise. In November 2020, when Deutsche Finance International and CTH Capital bought into the scheme, the Spanish trade press named four future phases: Iris, Magnolia, Lavender and Orchid Jardinana. Lavender and Orchid have never appeared again anywhere, and the scheme’s own marketing describes four plots in total, which leaves no room for them.

Magnolia went further than an announcement. The selling agent’s page marketed it with a launch in 2021 and an active waiting list, and that page was still being maintained as recently as October 2024 with the 2021 date unchanged. Iris was described in the same copy as the fourth development, the one that would carry a beach club with a poolside restaurant.

The project website jardinana.com still says Magnolia and Iris are “being released in the near future”. That sentence was last edited on 10 February 2022. There is one more detail worth knowing. In November 2025 a graphic label reading “Launching end of 2025” was uploaded to the site’s media library. It was never attached to a page and never went live. It is the only piece of activity on that website since 2022.

The positive read on this is straightforward. Grupo Jamsa has already delivered 203 homes on this site, Azalea and Lotus are finished and lived in, and the scheme sits five to ten minutes’ walk from the town centre and the beach, with pools, gardens, a sports centre with tennis and padel, and a supermarket already built. That is about as good a position as an unbuilt plot gets in La Cala. When Iris and Magnolia do come forward, they arrive into a community that already exists rather than a construction site.

What you should not do is plan around a date, because there is not one. If you want these, the sensible move is to register with us now and be ready to act on the day the licence lands, while you carry on looking at projects that are selling today. We are in contact with the developer, we will know when it moves, and putting your name on our list costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

Is Belterra Residences a prelaunch project?

No. Belterra Residences is actively selling. The project publishes 70 townhouses, individual unit prices between €595,000 and €650,000, plot and build sizes, and a completion date of 2027 on every unit listed. A project that publishes prices per house number is past prelaunch by any reasonable definition.

The product is attractive on paper: three bedroom townhouses and semi-detached homes with private plots between 122 and 277 m², a pool, gym, sauna and 24 hour security, at a price per m² that undercuts the Costa del Sol new build average of €5,725 reported by Savills. In a market where the average new apartment now passes a million euros, a townhouse with its own garden at €595,000 is a competitive position.

Two details are worth having straight before you view. The first is location. Aventus Group’s own announcement is headlined “in Marbella”, while the body of that same announcement says La Cala de Mijas, and the coordinates on the project’s map put it in Urbanización Lagar Martell in the municipality of Mijas, inland from the village. The developer’s office is in Nueva Andalucía, which explains the Marbella label. The project is in Mijas, and that is the town hall that governs your IBI and your padrón. Worth knowing before you view: this is a short drive up from the village rather than a walk, so it suits a buyer who expects to have a car.

The second is the schedule. The July 2025 announcement described two stages of 36 homes, 72 in total, with the first stage completing in Q3 2026. The project now markets 70 homes and gives every published unit a 2027 completion, so the timetable has clearly been rebased. The website publishes no construction progress, which is worth a direct question rather than an assumption either way. Ask us and we will put it to the developer and come back with the answer.

The two prelaunch projects nobody is discussing

If you want genuine prelaunch in this area, there are two more, and neither gets much attention. Taylor Wimpey has The Meadows II at La Cala Golf Resort under “New projects 2026”, at the waiting list stage rather than on sale, described as three bedroom townhouses with a communal pool and views over the resort and the Mijas valley. One Eden has new phases coming at Royal Palms Mijas including four villas, after selling out phases I to III and launching phase IV.3.

Both come from developers who have delivered on this coast recently, which is the single most useful filter you can apply to a prelaunch list. If either of those is the kind of home you are looking for, tell us now rather than waiting for an announcement. We register our clients ahead of the public release, and that is the only way the early pricing and the pick of the units are still available when the release happens.

Project	Developer	Stage as published	What is published
Iris Jardinana	Grupo Jamsa	Próximamente	Nothing beyond the name
Magnolia Jardinana	Grupo Jamsa	Próximamente	Nothing beyond the name
The Meadows II	Taylor Wimpey España	New projects 2026, waiting list	Typology and location only
Royale Residences	One Eden	New phases coming soon	Four villas
Belterra Residences	Aventus Home	Selling	Prices, sizes, plots, 2027 completion
Vission Hills	Vía Célere	Launched August 2026	Gated, phased. Phase I is 142 apartments across five buildings. Social club, gym, spa, coworking. Energy rating A

Prelaunch status as published or announced by each developer, checked 20 August 2026. Stages change without notice, so treat any of these as a starting point for a conversation rather than a fixed position.

Why Mijas still has room to build

The reason the pipeline has not dried up is planning permission, and the numbers are unusually clear. Mijas had 1,904 homes approved by architects’ visado during 2025, second only to Málaga city at 1,950. Between them the two municipalities accounted for 42 per cent of all new homes projected across the province. Estepona came next at 1,056, then Fuengirola at 785 and Marbella at 640. Every one of the Mijas homes was free market housing, with no protected housing at all.

Province wide, 9,475 homes were visaed in 2025, up 6.4 per cent on the year before, according to the Colegio de Arquitectos de Málaga. The first quarter of 2026 came in at 3,195 homes across the province, a 36 per cent rise year on year, with close to 500 of those in Mijas.

Prices explain the appetite. Savills put the average new build price on the Costa del Sol at €5,725 per m² at the end of 2025, up 23 per cent in a year, with the average new apartment passing one million euros for the first time. Mijas Costa holds 18 per cent of the coast’s new build supply, behind Estepona at 28 per cent. Around 12,265 new homes sold during 2025 against available stock of 5,328 units, and Savills reports that between 30 and 50 per cent of homes in well positioned schemes sell off plan before construction starts. For what that has done to values in the village specifically, we track La Cala de Mijas property prices separately.

What should you ask before reserving a prelaunch home?

Five questions. We put them to the developers on your behalf, and the answers tell you how far along a project really is. They are worth knowing even if you never ask them yourself.

Where is the building licence? Granted, applied for, or still to be submitted. If it has been granted, ask for the date and the file reference, which is verifiable at the town hall. Then ask about the land itself, because a plot whose urbanisation project is still going through approval sits on a different timeline from one that is ready to build, for reasons that usually have nothing to do with the developer.

On the reservation, ask what the fee is, who holds it, and what the contract says if the licence is refused or the dates move. Ask how long you have before the private purchase contract is signed. And ask what this developer has handed over in Málaga province and when, because a delivery record is the most useful single fact you can have about a project that does not exist yet. A first time developer is not a reason to say no, it just changes which assurances are worth asking for.

Once the licence is granted and staged payments begin, those payments must go into a segregated account and be covered by a seguro de caución or a bank aval. Ask to see that documentation at the point it becomes applicable. Our buyer guide for the Costa del Sol covers how off plan purchases run from reservation to keys, we have written separately on what to consider when buying off plan here, and the cost calculator will show you the purchase costs that sit on top of the price.

Questions people ask

Are Iris Jardinana and Magnolia Jardinana on sale?

No. Both are listed as “Próximamente” by Grupo Jamsa, with no units, prices or dates published as of 20 August 2026. Magnolia was previously marketed with a launch in 2021 and a waiting list, and that launch did not happen.

Which municipality is Belterra Residences in?

Mijas. The developer’s announcement headline says Marbella, but the body of the same announcement and the coordinates on the project’s own map both place it in Urbanización Lagar Martell in the municipality of Mijas. Aventus Home’s office is in Marbella, which is where the confusion comes from.

Is it over for new projects in La Cala de Mijas?

No. Mijas had 1,904 homes approved by visado in 2025 and close to 500 more in the first quarter of 2026. Seven new schemes launched in the area during 2025 and 2026. The supply of announcements has slowed, not the supply of land.

Is buying in prelaunch cheaper?

Usually, yes. Prices normally rise when a project moves from prelaunch to launch, which normally happens once the building licence is granted, so reserving beforehand holds the earlier price. You also get first choice of units, which on a rising market is worth as much as the discount. Savills reports that 30 to 50 per cent of homes in well positioned Costa del Sol schemes sell before construction starts, so the best plots and orientations are often taken before a project ever reaches a portal.

Should I pay a deposit to hold a prelaunch unit?

Paying a reservation fee is the normal way to take a home off the market in prelaunch, and it is standard practice across the Costa del Sol. What you are signing is a reservation contract rather than a purchase, so read what it says about the fee, who holds it, the deadline for signing the private purchase contract, and what happens if the licence or the dates move. The statutory guarantee for staged payments, a seguro de caución or bank aval plus a segregated account, applies from the granting of the building licence under Ley 38/1999, so it comes into play at the next step rather than this one.

Has Vission Hills launched?

Yes. Vission Hills in La Cala de Mijas went to public launch in August 2026 and the sales office on Calle Sierra de Mijas is open. It is a gated scheme from Vía Célere built in phases, with 142 apartments of one to three bedrooms across five buildings in phase I, two and three bedroom apartments and four bedroom townhouses in phase II, and a social club with a gym, spa and coworking space. Homes were reserved during the prelaunch phase beforehand, so what is available at launch is not the full release.

How do I get on the list for a prelaunch project in La Cala de Mijas?

Through us. Prelaunch allocations on the Costa del Sol are released through the developers’ commercial partners rather than advertised, so being registered with an agency that has the dialogue is what determines whether you hear about a release in time to act on it. Tell us what you are looking for and we will put you on our list, at no cost and with no obligation, and come back to you when there is something real to look at.

How often does this page get updated?

Every 60 days, and immediately if a project’s status changes. Prelaunch information goes stale faster than any other kind, which is the whole problem this page exists to solve.