Benajarafe, Málaga property and area FAQs

Vélez-Málaga , locally known as Vélez, is a municipality, the capital (and the most important city) of the Axarquía comarca in the province of Málaga, in the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia. Vélez-Málaga is the headquarters of the Commonwealth of Municipalities of Costa del Sol-Axarquía. The municipality forms part of the Costa del Sol region.

For Vélez-Málaga, the IGN Nomenclátor currently lists 22 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-20. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Vélez-Málaga, at a recorded elevation of approximately 45 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Torre del Mar (21,921 residents in the cited settlement record), Caleta de Vélez (4,245 residents in the cited settlement record), Chilches (4,053 residents in the cited settlement record), Benajarafe (3,032 residents in the cited settlement record), and Almayate Bajo (2,113 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.

Vélez-Málaga itself is a market city and "bustling market town and supply centre for the region's farmers", 4 km inland from Torre del Mar but unlike the coastal resort not dominated by the tourist industry.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 158.0 square kilometres for Vélez-Málaga municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

The official municipality context used for Benajarafe has INE code 29094. That code prevents same-name municipalities in different provinces from being combined.

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 29094 and keeps the province label Málaga. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

The linked structured record gives a municipal reference coordinate of 36.7821, -4.0993. It is not a listing coordinate, parcel boundary or search radius.

The latest imported INE population for Vélez-Málaga municipality is 86,346, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Vélez-Málaga municipality, recorded population changed by 9.9%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Vélez-Málaga municipality is €12,154 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 42.3 years for Vélez-Málaga municipality, for period 2023.

The displayed series for Vélez-Málaga municipality begins at 78,545 residents in 2015. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

From 2015 to 2023, the displayed population value for Vélez-Málaga municipality changed by 9.9%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Vélez-Málaga municipality records €2,175 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

MITMA records an appraised housing value of €2,788 per square metre for Vélez-Málaga municipality in 2026Q2. Appraised value is a different basis from both asking and completed-sale price.

The displayed series for Vélez-Málaga municipality begins at €2,423 per m² in 2025Q4. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

Within the 2 displayed observations for Vélez-Málaga municipality, the highest appraised housing value value is €2,788 per m² in 2026Q2.

From 2024Q3 to 2026Q2, the displayed registered sale-price benchmark value for Málaga province changed by 19.9%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

The latest displayed MITMA point records 335 housing transactions in 2026Q2 for Vélez-Málaga municipality.

Dirección General del Catastro records 18,304 buildings for Vélez-Málaga municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 49,193 dwellings for Vélez-Málaga 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 1,980 for Vélez-Málaga municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 11,833 energy certificates for Vélez-Málaga municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

The 2010 onward band contains 1,443 recorded buildings for Vélez-Málaga municipality, representing 7.9% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The official extract lists 12,988 registered places across 2,404 active entries for Vélez-Málaga municipality, an arithmetic average of 5.4 places per entry. It is not an occupancy rate.

The current eligible public inventory contains 1 listing for Benajarafe. The count excludes sold, withdrawn, expired, rejected, draft, private, off-market and feed-private records.

The current public inventory is: 1 villa. 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 €609,000 to €609,000. These are live asking prices, not completed-sale values.

No. The Benajarafe 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 villa for Benajarafe, equal to 100.0% of the 1-listing area inventory.