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Properties for sale in Istán

Explore current properties published on The NLS alongside the latest available aggregate market evidence. Every figure identifies its source and geographic scope.

CURRENT NLS INVENTORY

Property types and asking prices in Istán

Browse every property type currently available here and open its complete selection of public listings.

Ranges use current public NLS asking prices, not completed-sale prices or property valuations.

Current NLS listings4Published inventory available now
Current asking-price range€219,000–€1,595,000Published asking prices, not completed sales
Published sold benchmark€2,207/m²Istán · 2026-12mo · Consejo General del Notariado · Penotariado
Registered sales activity8,873Málaga · 2026Q2 · Colegio de Registradores · province-level

Inventory shows current asking prices. Market benchmarks are published aggregates, not property valuations.

Málaga market intelligence

Istán market analysis

Official sold-price, transaction, population and housing-stock evidence is kept separate from current NLS asking inventory, with the period and geographic scope stated for every measure. Where a municipality series is unavailable, the wider province scope is shown explicitly.

Data scope · Istán municipality

Sourced local guide

Istán: local guide and property context

A sourced introduction to Istán, its official settlement geography and the evidence used on this property-area page.

Local overview

It lies beneath the Sierra Blanca in the valley of the Rio Verde about 15 km to the northwest from Marbella and the Mediterranean coast. It is situated on the southern slope of the Sierra de las Nieves. It is also near the large reservoir created by the Presa de la Concepción dam, built in 1972 to provide drinking water to towns all along the Costa del Sol.

Official geography

Within Málaga province, Istán is recorded as municipality 29061 in the official INE register. The linked structured record provides a recorded municipal area of 99.33 square kilometres and a reference coordinate of 36.5824, -4.9477. The coordinate is a municipal reference point, not a property, parcel boundary or radius from which local claims are inferred.

Settlements and local form

For Istán, 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 Istán, at a recorded elevation of approximately 306 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Balcones del Lago (167 residents in the cited settlement record) and Cerros del Lago (165 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.

How this guide keeps the evidence local

All official market and population evidence shown below is resolved to Istán through its exact INE identity. This prevents similarly named places in other provinces from being blended together. Where a municipality-level series is unavailable, the page labels the province fallback explicitly; current NLS asking inventory remains separate from completed-sale, demographic and cadastral evidence.

What the official data shows for Istán

Istán is a municipality in Málaga, Andalucía. The latest available INE municipal record reports 1,637 residents in 2023.

The INE population series shown for Istán municipality runs from 2015 to 2023, moving from 1,412 to 1,637 residents. The published series therefore changes by +15.9% over that span; this describes resident population, not housing demand by itself.

MITMA records 67 housing transactions over the latest four published quarters through 2026Q2. That is +4.7% compared with the preceding four quarters.

Current Catastro coverage for Istán municipality includes 1,110 recorded buildings and 1,295 recorded dwellings, with an average recorded build year of 1980. These are cadastral records, not a count of homes currently for sale.

Within buildings that carry a usable construction year, the largest Catastro age band is 1970–1989, representing 33.3% of that recorded subset. The distribution helps describe the physical stock, but it does not establish refurbishment condition, energy performance or legal status for an individual property.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot reports a completed-sale rate of €2,695 per square metre for Istán municipality, based on 45 price-informed sales from 54 total recorded transactions. It is a dated aggregate snapshot rather than an asking-price estimate or an individual property valuation.

INE reports a house-price index of 110.9 for Andalucía in 2026Q2. The index moved +11.9% year on year. This regional index shows direction of travel, not the value of a particular home.

The latest available INE indicators for Istán municipality report net income per person of €13,228 (2023); an average age of 44.4 years (2023); an average household size of 2.30 people (2023); 22.4% of residents recorded as non-Spanish (2023); 20.2% of residents aged 65 or over (2023). These measures describe the resident and household context. They should not be converted into a forecast of prices, rents or buyer demand.

The administrative extract contains 203 registered energy certificates for this scope, with 10.3% rated A to C. Certificate coverage is not the same as the total housing stock, and a certificate count must not be read as a count of homes available to buy.

The active tourism register contains 87 entries for this scope, representing 566 registered places. These are administrative registrations, not occupancy figures, rental income evidence or a guarantee that a particular property can obtain or retain a tourism authorisation.

NLS currently shows 4 active public listings for this search. Those live asking listings are kept separate from official completed-sale, demographic and cadastral records so readers can compare current availability with historical evidence without blending unlike measures.

Official sold-price snapshot€2,695/m²45 price-informed sales · 54 total transactions · Istán municipality · Consejo General del Notariado
Average completed sale€432,675161 m² average recorded surface · 45 price-informed sales · official snapshot
Transactions · latest four quarters67MITMA · Istán municipality · through 2026Q2 · +4.7% versus the prior four quarters
Málaga registered sale price€3,254/m²Colegio de Registradores · province · 2026Q2
Current NLS inventory4Active public listings now · asking inventory, not completed sales

Consistent official series underpin nationwide coverage: quarterly housing transactions from MITMA and annual population from INE. Any wider fallback is labelled directly on the chart.

Quarterly housing transactions

Istán municipality · MITMA · latest 12 quarters

Istán municipality quarterly housing transactions Quarterly MITMA housing transaction totals for Istán municipality. 35 0 2023Q3: 6 transactions 2023Q3 2023Q4: 28 transactions 2024Q1: 6 transactions 2024Q2: 12 transactions 2024Q3: 11 transactions 2024Q3 2024Q4: 15 transactions 2025Q1: 17 transactions 2025Q2: 21 transactions 2025Q3: 7 transactions 2025Q3 2025Q4: 16 transactions 2026Q1: 9 transactions 2026Q2: 35 transactions 2026Q2

Population

Istán municipality · INE · 2015–2023 · +15.9%

Istán municipality population Annual INE population for Istán municipality. The vertical axis uses the observed range shown. 1,664 1,385 2015: 1,412 residents 2015 2016: 1,419 residents 2017: 1,452 residents 2018: 1,477 residents 2018 2019: 1,493 residents 2020: 1,511 residents 2021: 1,573 residents 2021 2022: 1,631 residents 2023: 1,637 residents 2023

People and households

Latest available demographic evidence from INE for Istán municipality; each measure states its own latest period.

Population1,637INE · 2023
Net income per person€13,228INE household income atlas · 2023
Average age44.4Years · INE · 2023
Average household size2.30People per household · INE · 2023
Non-Spanish resident share22.4%Population by nationality · INE · 2023
Residents aged 65+20.2%INE demographic structure · 2023

Housing stock and operating context

Physical stock comes from Catastro. Energy-certificate and tourism-register counts are official administrative records and should be read as registered coverage, not as estimates of every home.

Cadastral buildings1,110Dirección General del Catastro
Recorded dwellings1,295Catastro building records
Average recorded build year1980Average across buildings with a recorded year
Energy certificates20310.3% rated A–C · registered certificates only
Active tourism-register entries87Junta de Andalucía · source updated 2026-11-01
Registered tourism capacity566Places on active register entries · not occupancy
Before 1950
13.7%
1950–1969
14.7%
1970–1989
33.3%
1990–2009
32.4%
2010 onward
5.8%

Wider market comparison

Málaga province and Andalucía measures provide context; they are not substitutes for a municipality or neighbourhood value.

Málaga sold price€3,254/m²Registradores · 2026Q2 · +10.8% year on year
Málaga average sale price€338,816Registradores · province · 2026Q2
Málaga notarial average€213,444Consejo General del Notariado · 2026-03
Andalucía house-price index110.9INE · 2026Q2 · +11.9% year on year
Foreign-buyer share16.0%Andalucía · Registradores · 2026Q2
Resale share of transactions73.1%Latest four quarters · MITMA · Istán municipality
Sources, periods and how to read this analysis

Completed-sale snapshot. Consejo General del Notariado / Penotariado aggregate for the stated scope. Price measures use 45 price-informed sales from 54 total recorded transactions. It is a current snapshot fetched 2026-08-03 21:39:29, not a historical point.

Transaction activity. MITMA quarterly housing transmissions, shown as published counts with no scaling or extrapolation.

Registered-price context. Colegio de Registradores quarterly statistics for the labelled comparison scope. Aggregate values are never relabelled as municipality or neighbourhood values.

Population and income. INE series for Istán municipality through 2023. Aggregate percentages and averages are population-weighted where appropriate.

Physical stock. Dirección General del Catastro building records. Counts describe recorded stock, not homes currently for sale.

Administrative registers. Official energy-certificate and, where available, tourism-register entries are matched to official geography; coverage is not a model of unregistered stock.

Subarea geography. Flat legacy Málaga location terms are assigned to a municipality using published NLS listing coordinates inside official IGN/CNIG boundaries. Coordinates determine scope only and never create a market value.

Current listings. The NLS active public inventory, shown separately as asking inventory and never blended into completed-sale statistics.

Images. Wikimedia Commons files are selected through Wikidata municipality records. Each photograph retains its creator, reuse licence and source link.

This is aggregate market context, not a property valuation, cadastral assessment, legal opinion or forecast. Non-institutional deed samples and commercial portal asking-price benchmarks are excluded from the analysis.

Current properties in Istán

4 current listings · Only current public listings are shown.

Istán is located in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain

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34

€1.595.000

  • 3 Beds
  • 4 Baths
  • 297 m²

Sierra Blanca Country Club, Istan

98

€975.000

  • 3 Beds
  • 2 Baths
  • 203 m²

Almazara Hills, Istan

58

€945.000

  • 3 Beds
  • 2 Baths
  • 228 m²

Almazara Hills, Istan

15

€219.000

  • 1 Beds
  • 1 Baths
  • 55 m²

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