Properties for sale in Almería

Local overview

Almería is a city and municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia. It is the capital of the province of the same name. The city lies in southeastern Iberia, extending primarily in between the eastern fringes of the Sierra de Gádor and the Andarax riverbed along the coastline of the Gulf of Almería, a large inlet of the Mediterranean Sea.

Caliph Abd al-Rahman III founded the city in 955. The city grew wealthy during the Islamic era, becoming a world city throughout the 11th and 12th centuries. It enjoyed an active port that traded silk, oil, and raisins. This period was brought to an end with the 1147 conquest of the city by a Christian coalition. Control over Almería switched hands over the rest of the middle ages. In the early modern period, with the onset of Barbary piracy, the ethnic cleansing of moriscos in the Kingdom of Granada, and several natural calamities, urban decay accrued. The 19th-century reactivation of mining activity (lead) in the hinterland fostered commercial activity and demographic growth.

Key road routes include the A-7 connecting Almería to the rest of the Spanish Mediterranean coast and the A-92 connecting the city to Granada and inner Andalusia. Almería is served by a medium-sized airport and a port with a growing specialization in passenger and ro-ro transport with the North of Africa (Algeria and Morocco).

Being adjacent to a small desert, Almería has an exceptionally dry climate by European standards.

Official geography

Within Almería province, Almería is recorded as municipality 04013 in the official INE register. The linked structured record provides a recorded municipal area of 296.22 square kilometres and a reference coordinate of 36.8417, -2.4639. The coordinate is a municipal reference point, not a property, parcel boundary or radius from which local claims are inferred.

Settlements and local form

For Almería, the IGN Nomenclátor currently lists 17 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-16. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Almería, at a recorded elevation of approximately 21 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Retamar (9,831 residents in the cited settlement record), La Cañada de San Urbano (6,351 residents in the cited settlement record), El Alquián (3,462 residents in the cited settlement record), Loma Cabrera (2,366 residents in the cited settlement record), and Costacabana (1,439 residents in the cited settlement record). Nomenclátor entries describe settlement geography; they are not listing totals, neighbourhood boundaries or evidence of homes currently available for sale.

How this guide keeps the evidence local

All official market and population evidence shown below is resolved to Almería through its exact INE identity. This prevents similarly named places in other provinces from being blended together. Where a municipality-level series is unavailable, the page labels the province fallback explicitly; current NLS asking inventory remains separate from completed-sale, demographic and cadastral evidence.