Altea, Alicante property and area FAQs

Altea is a town and municipality located in the Valencian Community, Spain, on the section of Mediterranean coast called the Costa Blanca.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 13 official population nuclei for Altea. The imported source records are dated through 2025-11-27. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Altea, at a recorded elevation of approximately 52 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Urbanització Serra d'Altea (2,143 residents in the cited settlement record), l'Olla (1,474 residents in the cited settlement record), Urbanització La Galera Baixa (1,027 residents in the cited settlement record), Altea la Vella (618 residents in the cited settlement record), and Urbanització Alhama (411 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.

At present, the economy of Altea is based on tourism, which started to grow in the 1950s because of its good weather, beaches and the labyrinthine streets with whitewashed house-fronts that characterize the town. Altea is protected on the north by the bluffs of the Serra de Bèrnia, creating an especially mild microclimate. Its seafront esplanade is planted with palms.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 34.4 square kilometres for Altea municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 13 official population nuclei for Altea municipality. These are settlement records, not property listings.

The stated official-data scope is Altea municipality. Current NLS listings use the property-search area itself, while official market and demographic measures keep their own published geography visible.

Altea is shown within Alicante province. Province-level figures are explicitly labelled when a municipality-level series is unavailable.

Dividing the INE population of 24,027 by the recorded municipal area of 34.4 km² gives approximately 697.9 residents per km² for Altea municipality. This is a transparent calculation from the two cited values.

The latest imported INE population for Altea municipality is 24,027, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Altea municipality, recorded population changed by 10.2%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Altea municipality is €12,822 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 45.4 years for Altea municipality, for period 2023.

The latest imported INE figure is 2.50 people per household for Altea municipality, for period 2023.

The page uses 9 published observations for Altea municipality, running from 2015 to 2023.

The displayed series for Altea municipality begins at 21,801 residents in 2015. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

Within the same displayed series for Altea municipality, the lowest population value is 21,124 residents in 2016.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Altea municipality records €2,901 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

Registradores reports a foreign-buyer share of 31.0% for Comunitat Valenciana in 2026Q2. It is regional context, not a municipality estimate.

The displayed series for Comunitat Valenciana begins at 28.5% in 2024Q3. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

Within the 8 displayed observations for Comunitat Valenciana, the highest regional foreign-buyer share value is 31.0% in 2026Q2.

The page uses 12 published observations for Altea municipality, running from 2023Q3 to 2026Q2.

From 2024Q3 to 2026Q2, the displayed regional foreign-buyer share value for Comunitat Valenciana changed by 9.1%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

Within the same displayed series for Altea municipality, the lowest quarterly transaction count value is 125 transactions in 2025Q3.

The latest Registradores province average is €202,776 in 2026Q2 for Alicante. It remains labelled as province-level evidence.

Dirección General del Catastro records 6,085 buildings for Altea municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 16,620 dwellings for Altea municipality. It should not be read as current sale inventory.

Across buildings with a recorded construction year, the Catastro extract gives an average year of 1,970 for Altea municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 6,599 energy certificates for Altea municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

The Before 1950 band contains 1,223 recorded buildings for Altea municipality, representing 20.2% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1950–1969 band contains 592 recorded buildings for Altea municipality, representing 9.8% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 2010 onward band contains 301 recorded buildings for Altea municipality, representing 5.0% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1970–1989 band contains 2,169 recorded buildings for Altea municipality, representing 35.8% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The current eligible public inventory contains 28 listings for Altea. The count excludes sold, withdrawn, expired, rejected, draft, private, off-market and feed-private records.

The current public inventory is: 20 villas; 6 apartments; 1 plot; 1 penthouse. Only types with at least one eligible live listing receive an indexable area/type page.

Published asking prices in the current NLS inventory run from €105,000 to €4,895,000. These are live asking prices, not completed-sale values.

The difference between the current published minimum of €105,000 and maximum of €4,895,000 is €4,790,000. This describes the live mix of listings and is not a market-value estimate.

No. The Altea count includes only active listings that are eligible for the public NLS catalogue at the time the page is generated. Draft, withdrawn, private and feed-private records do not create a public area or property-type page.

NLS currently shows 1 eligible public penthouse for Altea, equal to 3.6% of the 28-listing area inventory.

NLS currently shows 20 eligible public villas for Altea, equal to 71.4% of the 28-listing area inventory.

NLS currently shows 6 eligible public apartments for Altea, equal to 21.4% of the 28-listing area inventory.