Cortes de la Frontera, Málaga property and area FAQs

Cortes de la Frontera is a town and municipality in the province of Málaga, part of the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain. The municipality, stretching on a south-west/north-east axis, is situated approximately 40 km from Ronda, 20 km from Benaoján and 159 km from the provincial capital.

For Cortes de la Frontera, the IGN Nomenclátor currently lists 3 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-20. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Cortes de la Frontera, at a recorded elevation of approximately 616 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include El Colmenar (463 residents in the cited settlement record) and Cañada del Real Tesoro (387 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.

The village stands just short of 5 km outside the north-east limit of the Los Alcornocales Natural Park, and most of the municipality's territory is in that park. But the northern fringe of the municipality stretches into the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park, including the southern part of the Sierra de los Pinos and its Pico del Pino (1,395 m altitude).

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 176.0 square kilometres for Cortes de la Frontera municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

Cortes de la Frontera is an official municipality in Málaga province, Spain. Its exact municipality identity is used for the official evidence on this page.

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 29046 and keeps the province label Málaga. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

Cortes de la Frontera 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 latest imported INE population for Cortes de la Frontera municipality is 3,003, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Cortes de la Frontera municipality, recorded population changed by -8.8%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Cortes de la Frontera municipality is €11,339 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 46.0 years for Cortes de la Frontera municipality, for period 2023.

The imported INE nationality series implies a non-Spanish resident share of 7.8% for Cortes de la Frontera municipality, in period 2023.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 9 displayed population observations for Cortes de la Frontera municipality is 3,093 residents. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Cortes de la Frontera municipality records €575 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

Registradores reports a foreign-buyer share of 16.0% for Andalucía in 2026Q2. It is regional context, not a municipality estimate.

The displayed series for Andalucía begins at 14.3% 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 Andalucía, the highest regional foreign-buyer share value is 16.0% in 2026Q2.

The current Notariado snapshot records an average completed sale price of €55,495 for Cortes de la Frontera municipality. An aggregate average is not a valuation of an individual home.

The page uses 12 published observations for Cortes de la Frontera municipality, running from 2023Q3 to 2026Q2.

Dirección General del Catastro records 2,268 buildings for Cortes de la Frontera municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 2,115 dwellings for Cortes de la Frontera 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 1,967 for Cortes de la Frontera municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 289 energy certificates for Cortes de la Frontera municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

The Before 1950 band contains 527 recorded buildings for Cortes de la Frontera municipality, representing 23.6% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is 1990–2009, with 685 buildings, or 30.7% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

The current eligible public inventory contains 1 listing for Cortes de la Frontera. 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 €350,000 to €350,000. These are live asking prices, not completed-sale values.

No. The Cortes de la Frontera 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 Cortes de la Frontera, equal to 100.0% of the 1-listing area inventory.