Hungarian Home Buyers Set Their Sights on the Spanish Riviera

Málaga, Costa del Sol, Spain

At Duna House’s (DH) office in Spain, 15 percent more Hungarian clients expressed interest in Spanish real estate this year than a year ago. Hungarians are typically looking for smaller apartments, said the real estate agency.

More than 60 percent of the Spanish apartments purchased by Hungarians are smaller than 80 square meters, while apartments and houses larger than 100 square meters are primarily purchased by American, Dutch, and British buyers.

Based on Duna House’s experience, Hungarian clients visiting the Costa del Sol this year were mostly looking for new two-bedroom apartments priced between 350,000 and 600,000 euros. However, official data show that the majority of Hungarian buyers are purchasing smaller and less expensive properties.

Such properties can also be found on the Costa Blanca, in Torrevieja, where apartments are available for an average of 250,000 to 400,000 euros, depending on size.

In the press release, Viktória Udvarnoki, head of Duna House’s Spanish office, emphasized that Hungarians are now also benefiting from the strong forint. A 400,000-euro seaside apartment now costs more than 9 million forints less than it did in March.

She added that most buyers would spend a few weeks a year in the property they purchased and rent it out for the rest of the year. A change from previous years is that interest is no longer limited to the city of Marbella; Estepona, Mijas, and Manilva are also being considered.

The report notes that

apartment prices in Spain have risen by 12 percent over the past year, and the proportion of foreign buyers broke all previous records this spring.

Based on data from the Spanish property registry, foreigners purchased 51,630 homes in the first half of 2026. Most foreigners are drawn to the coast and the islands. In the province of Alicante on the Costa Blanca, 45.5 percent of buyers are foreign; in the province of Málaga on the Costa del Sol, 35.7 percent; and in the Balearic Islands, 30.5 percent. Most homes were purchased by British, Dutch, Moroccan, and German buyers, but Romanian and Polish buyers also made it into the top ten.

According to Spanish data, 705,357 homes changed hands in Spain in 2025, of which 97,480 were purchased by foreigners, accounting for 13.8 percent of all sales. Data from the Chamber of Notaries show that the proportion of foreign buyers had already reached 18.4 percent in the second half of 2025.

Via MTI, Featured image: Pexels

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