In Salares, for example, 240 of its 280 (nearly 80%) buildings are more than 45 years old. Similar numbers can be seen in Benarrabá, Parauta and Benalauría.
Other towns with over 60 percent off buildings over 45 years old include Árchez, Faraján, Benadalid, Igualeja, Sedella, Algatocín and Alpandeire. Notably, all are located inland and do not have large populations.
In Salares, 76% of the buildings are over 65 years old, while in Benarrabá, Parauta and Benalauría the figure is around 65%.
Only 7.5% of the buildings date back to the last three decades.
At the same time, these are municipalities where almost no construction has taken place in the last 15 years. In Benadalid the proportion is around 10%, whereas in Sedella, Parauta or Benalauría it is much lower as only 1% of the properties have been built in these last three decades.
Other municipalities in which hardly a brick has been laid in the last 15 years are Jimera de Líbar, Carratraca and Cuevas de San Marcos, where these more recent properties do not even represent 1% of the total property stock.
In the province as a whole, these more recent constructions account for 7.5% of the 1.53 million properties. Of which fewer than 115,000 have been built since 2010.
In the Andalusian community as a whole, they account for 462,000 (6.6%) of the almost seven million properties. But in the province of Malaga there are municipalities in which the proportion of buildings erected in the last 15 years is double these figures. For example, in Estepona, Casares and Ojén the building stock has increased by more than 15% in the last three decades.
At the same time, these localities are among those with the lowest proportion of dwellings over 45 years old. Compared to figures over 60% or 70% in the interior of the province, in Benahavís, buildings built before 1980 account for barely 1.5%.
Meanwhile, in Ojén they account for 6.9% and in Manilva and Alhaurín de la Torre they are less than 8%. In Mijas and Casares they are around 10%.
Of these locations, Mijas is the largest, with around 95,000 properties, of which just 8,700 are over 45 years old, a figure that practically equals the number that have been built since 2010.
Other areas with fewer older properties are Cártama, Estepona and Rincón de la Victoria (less than 15%). Once again, the largest of these municipalities, Estepona, stands out: of its 88,629 properties, just 11,706 are over 45 years old, compared to the 14,836 built less than three decades ago.
In Torrox, Benalmádena, Marbella and Fuente de Piedra fewer than 20% of the property stock is more than 45 years old.
