Blanes, Girona property and area FAQs

Blanes is a town and municipality in the comarca of Selva in Girona, Catalonia, Spain. During Roman rule it was named Blanda or Blandae. It is known as the "Gateway to the Costa Brava". Its coast is part of the Costa Brava, which stretches from Blanes to the French border. The township is 18.29 km2 (7.06 sq mi). Blanes is a popular tourist town, and it is known for the Concurs de Focs d'Artifici during the Santa Anna festival; this event includes many fireworks. Other places of interest include botanical gardens, coves such as the Cala Bona, and beaches that are surrounded by mountains.

Blanes’ current IGN settlement record contains 1 official population nucleus. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-27. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Blanes, at a recorded elevation of approximately 4 metres. Nomenclátor entries describe settlement geography; they are not listing totals, neighbourhood boundaries or evidence of homes currently available for sale.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 17.7 square kilometres for Blanes municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

The sourced municipality record gives a reference elevation of approximately 13 metres. Elevation can vary within the municipality and is not a property-specific measurement.

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

The official municipality context used for Blanes has INE code 17023. That code prevents same-name municipalities in different provinces from being combined.

Blanes is an official municipality in Girona province, Spain. Its exact municipality identity is used for the official evidence on this page.

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 17023 and keeps the province label Girona. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

Dividing the INE population of 41,409 by the recorded municipal area of 17.7 km² gives approximately 2,339.5 residents per km² for Blanes municipality. This is a transparent calculation from the two cited values.

Blanes 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.

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

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 1 official population nucleus for Blanes municipality. These are settlement records, not property listings.

The latest imported INE population for Blanes municipality is 41,409, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Blanes municipality, recorded population changed by 7.6%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Blanes municipality is €14,075 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 43.8 years for Blanes municipality, for period 2023.

Within the 9 displayed observations for Blanes municipality, the highest population value is 41,409 residents in 2023.

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

The displayed series for Blanes municipality begins at 38,486 residents in 2015. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

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

INE records 20.1% of residents aged 65 or over for Blanes municipality, in period 2023.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 9 displayed population observations for Blanes municipality is 39,513 residents. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

The imported INE nationality series implies a non-Spanish resident share of 18.9% for Blanes municipality, in period 2023.

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

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Blanes municipality records €2,089 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

MITMA records an appraised housing value of €2,068 per square metre for Blanes municipality in 2026Q1. Appraised value is a different basis from both asking and completed-sale price.

The displayed series for Blanes municipality begins at €1,644 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 Blanes municipality, the highest appraised housing value value is €2,073 per m² in 2025Q4.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 8 displayed registered sale-price benchmark observations for Girona province is €2,382 per m². It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

From 2023Q3 to 2026Q2, the displayed quarterly transaction count value for Blanes municipality changed by 17.6%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 12 displayed appraised housing value observations for Blanes municipality is €1,863 per m². It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

Within the same displayed series for Blanes municipality, the lowest quarterly transaction count value is 131 transactions in 2023Q3.

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

The page uses 8 published observations for Girona province, running from 2024Q3 to 2026Q2.

Registradores reports a foreign-buyer share of 17.6% for Cataluña in 2026Q2. It is regional context, not a municipality estimate.

Dirección General del Catastro records 6,007 buildings for Blanes municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 25,266 dwellings for Blanes 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 Blanes municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is 1970–1989, with 2,517 buildings, or 42.1% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

The 1950–1969 band contains 1,347 recorded buildings for Blanes municipality, representing 22.5% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Before 1950 band contains 628 recorded buildings for Blanes municipality, representing 10.5% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 2010 onward band contains 137 recorded buildings for Blanes municipality, representing 2.3% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Catastro extract records 25,266 dwellings across 6,007 buildings for Blanes municipality, or approximately 4.21 dwellings per recorded building.

The 1970–1989 band contains 2,517 recorded buildings for Blanes municipality, representing 42.1% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1990–2009 band contains 1,356 recorded buildings for Blanes municipality, representing 22.7% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The current eligible public inventory contains 1 listing for Blanes. 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 €395,000 to €395,000. These are live asking prices, not completed-sale values.

No. The Blanes 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 Blanes, equal to 100.0% of the 1-listing area inventory.