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El Palo, Málaga property and area FAQs
El Palo is an NLS property-search area in Málaga province within the Málaga municipality context. The current public NLS inventory contains 1 listing, including 1 town house.
Place and geography
What kind of place is El Palo?
Málaga is a municipality of Spain and the capital of the province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It lies in Southern Iberia on the Costa del Sol ('Coast of the Sun') of the Mediterranean, primarily on the left bank of the Guadalhorce. The urban core originally developed in the space between the Gibralfaro Hill and the Guadalmedina.
How is El Palo organised into official settlements?
For Málaga, the IGN Nomenclátor currently lists 14 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-20. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Málaga, at a recorded elevation of approximately 6 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Churriana (13,365 residents in the cited settlement record), Campanillas (7,499 residents in the cited settlement record), Santa Rosalía-Maqueda (4,865 residents in the cited settlement record), Cortijo de Maza-El Olivar (3,863 residents in the cited settlement record), and Guadalmar-San Julián (3,598 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.
What further factual context is available for El Palo?
According to most scholars, it was founded about 770 BC by the Phoenicians from Tyre as Malaka. From the 6th century BC the city was under the hegemony of Ancient Carthage, and from 218 BC, it was under Roman rule, economically prospering owing to garum production. In the 8th century, after a period of Visigothic and Byzantine rule, it was placed under Islamic rule. In 1487, the Crown of Castile gained control in the midst of the Granada War. In the 19th century, the city underwent a period of industrialisation followed by a decay in all socioeconomic parameters in the last third of the century.
What is the recorded municipal area for El Palo?
The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 395.0 square kilometres for Málaga municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.
How does NLS avoid mixing El Palo with similarly named places?
NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 29067 and keeps the province label Málaga. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.
What geographic scope do the facts for El Palo use?
The stated official-data scope is Málaga municipality. Current NLS listings use the property-search area itself, while official market and demographic measures keep their own published geography visible.
Where is El Palo?
El Palo is an NLS property-search area in Málaga province, Spain. Official municipality evidence on this page is labelled with the wider scope Málaga municipality.
People and households
What is the latest official population shown for El Palo?
The latest imported INE population for Málaga municipality is 584,203, for period 2023.
How has the recorded population changed in El Palo?
Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Málaga municipality, recorded population changed by 4.0%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.
What net income per person is recorded for El Palo?
The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Málaga municipality is €13,847 net income per person, for period 2023.
What is the recorded average age in El Palo?
INE records an average age of 42.9 years for Málaga municipality, for period 2023.
What share of residents in El Palo is aged 65 or over?
INE records 19.2% of residents aged 65 or over for Málaga municipality, in period 2023.
How different is the latest population point from the first one shown for El Palo?
From 2015 to 2023, the displayed population value for Málaga municipality changed by 4.0%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.
Property market evidence
What is the latest official sold-price snapshot for El Palo?
The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Málaga municipality records €3,143 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.
What appraised housing value is available for El Palo?
MITMA records an appraised housing value of €3,241 per square metre for Málaga municipality in 2026Q1. Appraised value is a different basis from both asking and completed-sale price.
What is the earliest displayed El Palo appraised housing value observation?
The displayed series for Málaga municipality begins at €2,214 per m² in 2023Q2. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.
Which published period has the largest appraised housing value value for El Palo?
Within the 12 displayed observations for Málaga municipality, the highest appraised housing value value is €3,246 per m² in 2025Q4.
How has the registered sale-price benchmark changed around El Palo?
The displayed Registradores series for Málaga province changed by 10.8% year on year at its latest point. This is a province trend, not a forecast for El Palo.
What is the highest displayed regional house-price index point relevant to El Palo?
Within the 8 displayed observations for Andalucía, the highest regional house-price index value is 110.9 index points in 2026Q2.
Housing stock and registrations
How many cadastral buildings are recorded for El Palo?
Dirección General del Catastro records 51,461 buildings for Málaga municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.
How many dwellings are recorded for El Palo?
The current Catastro building extract records 261,271 dwellings for Málaga municipality. It should not be read as current sale inventory.
What is the average recorded build year in El Palo?
Across buildings with a recorded construction year, the Catastro extract gives an average year of 1,975 for Málaga municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.
How many energy certificates are recorded for El Palo?
The current official administrative extract contains 55,707 energy certificates for Málaga municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.
What share of cadastral buildings in El Palo is labelled 1950–1969?
The 1950–1969 band contains 10,933 recorded buildings for Málaga municipality, representing 21.3% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.
What dwelling-to-building ratio is recorded for El Palo?
The Catastro extract records 261,271 dwellings across 51,461 buildings for Málaga municipality, or approximately 5.08 dwellings per recorded building.
Current property inventory
How many properties are currently listed in El Palo on NLS?
The current eligible public inventory contains 1 listing for El Palo. The count excludes sold, withdrawn, expired, rejected, draft, private, off-market and feed-private records.
Which property types are currently available in El Palo?
The current public inventory is: 1 town house. Only types with at least one eligible live listing receive an indexable area/type page.
What is the current asking-price range in El Palo?
Published asking prices in the current NLS inventory run from €299,000 to €299,000. These are live asking prices, not completed-sale values.
Are inactive or private listings included in the current El Palo inventory?
No. The El Palo 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.
What is the live NLS count for townhouses in El Palo?
NLS currently shows 1 eligible public town house for El Palo, equal to 100.0% of the 1-listing area inventory.
How to read these answers
Current listings and asking prices can change. Institutional figures update on their own publication cycles and may use municipality, province or autonomous-community scope. Compare unlike measures only after checking their stated geography and period. This page is market context, not a valuation, forecast, legal opinion or investment recommendation.