Benidorm, Alicante property and area FAQs

Benidorm is a city and municipality in the province of Alacant / Alicante, Valencian Community, on the Mediterranean coast of Spain.

For Benidorm, the IGN Nomenclátor currently lists 3 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-11-27. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Benidorm, at a recorded elevation of approximately 10 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Urbanització Coblanca (497 residents in the cited settlement record) and l'Almafrà (34 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.

Known as the "New York of the Mediterranean", Benidorm has been a tourist destination within Spain since 1925, when its port was extended and the first hotels were built, although it was only in the 1950s that it became renowned as a summer destination for people from inland Spain, especially Madrid.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 38.5 square kilometres for Benidorm municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

The linked structured record gives a municipal reference coordinate of 38.5342, -0.1314. It is not a listing coordinate, parcel boundary or search radius.

Benidorm is treated as an official municipality. The page is joined to institutional datasets by its five-digit INE identity, not by a loose name match.

Yes. The structured municipality record includes an official website field. NLS treats that as identity context and not as property-market evidence.

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

Dividing the INE population of 73,027 by the recorded municipal area of 38.5 km² gives approximately 1,896.3 residents per km² for Benidorm municipality. This is a transparent calculation from the two cited values.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 3 official population nuclei for Benidorm municipality. These are settlement records, not property listings.

The audited municipality record contains 10 additional named-place records for Benidorm municipality. This count describes geographic records, not neighbourhood boundaries or properties for sale.

The latest imported INE population for Benidorm municipality is 73,027, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Benidorm municipality, recorded population changed by 11.3%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Benidorm municipality is €12,263 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 44.9 years for Benidorm municipality, for period 2023.

Within the 9 displayed observations for Benidorm municipality, the highest population value is 73,027 residents in 2023.

INE records 22.4% of residents aged 65 or over for Benidorm municipality, in period 2023.

The latest imported INE figure is 2.30 people per household for Benidorm municipality, for period 2023.

The population figure uses INE period 2023. The page shows the period beside the value so it is not mistaken for a live counter.

The displayed series for Benidorm municipality begins at 65,623 residents in 2015. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 9 displayed population observations for Benidorm municipality is 67,757 residents. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

Within the same displayed series for Benidorm municipality, the lowest population value is 64,796 residents in 2016.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Benidorm municipality records €3,022 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

MITMA records an appraised housing value of €3,089 per square metre for Benidorm municipality in 2026Q1. Appraised value is a different basis from both asking and completed-sale price.

The displayed series for Benidorm municipality begins at €2,293 per m² in 2023Q2. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

Within the 12 displayed observations for Benidorm municipality, the highest appraised housing value value is €3,089 per m² in 2026Q1.

Within the same displayed series for Benidorm municipality, the lowest quarterly transaction count value is 418 transactions in 2024Q3.

Within the same displayed series for Alicante province, the lowest registered sale-price benchmark value is €1,813 per m² in 2024Q3.

The page uses 12 published observations for Benidorm 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.

The displayed Registradores series for Alicante province changed by 11.7% year on year at its latest point. This is a province trend, not a forecast for Benidorm.

Within the same displayed series for Comunitat Valenciana, the lowest regional house-price index value is 90.2 index points in 2024Q3.

The page uses 12 published observations for Benidorm municipality, running from 2023Q2 to 2026Q1.

Dirección General del Catastro records 3,712 buildings for Benidorm municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 61,279 dwellings for Benidorm 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 1,974 for Benidorm municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 18,481 energy certificates for Benidorm municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

Among the imported certificates for Benidorm municipality, 4.9% are rated A, B or C. The share applies only to registered certificates in the dataset.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is 1970–1989, with 1,575 buildings, or 43.0% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

The Before 1950 band contains 337 recorded buildings for Benidorm municipality, representing 9.2% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1950–1969 band contains 931 recorded buildings for Benidorm municipality, representing 25.4% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1990–2009 band contains 706 recorded buildings for Benidorm municipality, representing 19.3% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1970–1989 band contains 1,575 recorded buildings for Benidorm municipality, representing 43.0% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Catastro extract records 61,279 dwellings across 3,712 buildings for Benidorm municipality, or approximately 16.51 dwellings per recorded building.

The current eligible public inventory contains 2 listings for Benidorm. The count excludes sold, withdrawn, expired, rejected, draft, private, off-market and feed-private records.

The current public inventory is: 2 apartments. 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 €730,000 to €2,145,000. These are live asking prices, not completed-sale values.

No. The Benidorm 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 2 eligible public apartments for Benidorm, equal to 100.0% of the 2-listing area inventory.

The difference between the current published minimum of €730,000 and maximum of €2,145,000 is €1,415,000. This describes the live mix of listings and is not a market-value estimate.