Carvajal, Málaga property and area FAQs

Benalmádena is a town in Andalusia in southern Spain, 12 km west of Málaga, on the Costa del Sol between Torremolinos and Fuengirola.

For Benalmádena, the IGN Nomenclátor currently lists 8 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-20. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Benalmádena, at a recorded elevation of approximately 240 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Arroyo de la Miel-Benalmadena Costa (55,912 residents in the cited settlement record), Torrequebrada (9,694 residents in the cited settlement record), La Perla-Torremuelle (1,864 residents in the cited settlement record), La Capellanía (1,836 residents in the cited settlement record), and La Sierrezuela (1,565 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.

Benalmádena is rich in attractive beaches and interesting places like the Colomares Castle, the 33-metre-tall Buddhist Benalmádena Stupa, the largest Buddhist stupa in Europe, the Benalmádena Marina and the Benalmádena Cable Car.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 27.2 square kilometres for Benalmádena municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

Carvajal is an NLS property-search area in Málaga province, Spain. Official municipality evidence on this page is labelled with the wider scope Benalmádena municipality.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 8 official population nuclei for Benalmádena municipality. These are settlement records, not property listings.

The latest imported INE population for Benalmádena municipality is 77,455, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Benalmádena municipality, recorded population changed by 11.6%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Benalmádena municipality is €13,418 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 42.2 years for Benalmádena municipality, for period 2023.

INE records 16.9% of residents aged 65 or over for Benalmádena municipality, in period 2023.

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

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Benalmádena municipality records €3,134 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

MITMA records an appraised housing value of €3,761 per square metre for Benalmádena municipality in 2026Q1. Appraised value is a different basis from both asking and completed-sale price.

The displayed series for Benalmádena municipality begins at €2,517 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 Benalmádena municipality, the highest appraised housing value value is €3,761 per m² in 2026Q1.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 8 displayed regional foreign-buyer share observations for Andalucía is 13.9%. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

Within the same displayed series for Benalmádena municipality, the lowest quarterly transaction count value is 423 transactions in 2025Q3.

Dirección General del Catastro records 7,289 buildings for Benalmádena municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 49,798 dwellings for Benalmádena 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 1,985 for Benalmádena municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 16,019 energy certificates for Benalmádena municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

The official extract lists 41,428 registered places across 8,688 active entries for Benalmádena municipality, an arithmetic average of 4.8 places per entry. It is not an occupancy rate.

The Before 1950 band contains 79 recorded buildings for Benalmádena municipality, representing 1.1% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

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

The current public inventory is: 1 apartment; 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 €430,000 to €1,275,000. These are live asking prices, not completed-sale values.

No. The Carvajal 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.

The difference between the current published minimum of €430,000 and maximum of €1,275,000 is €845,000. This describes the live mix of listings and is not a market-value estimate.

NLS currently shows 1 eligible public penthouse for Carvajal, equal to 50.0% of the 2-listing area inventory.