Los Balcones, Alicante property and area FAQs

Torrevieja is a Mediterranean-seaside city and municipality on the Costa Blanca, in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community, in southeastern Spain. The city is in one of the only Spanish-speaking areas of the Valencian Community.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 7 official population nuclei for Torrevieja. The imported source records are dated through 2025-11-27. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Torrevieja, at a recorded elevation of approximately 26 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Urbanización La Torreta (8,014 residents in the cited settlement record), Urbanización Los Balcones (5,730 residents in the cited settlement record), Urbanización El Chaparral (5,075 residents in the cited settlement record), Urbanización Punta Prima (2,876 residents in the cited settlement record), and Cabo Cervera-Playa la Mata (2,658 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.

Torrevieja was originally a salt-mining and fishing village, as it is located between the Mediterranean Sea and two large pink salt lakes known as Las Salinas de Torrevieja.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 71.8 square kilometres for Torrevieja municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

The audited municipality record contains 39 additional named-place records for Torrevieja municipality. This count describes geographic records, not neighbourhood boundaries or properties for sale.

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 03133 and keeps the province label Alicante. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

The latest imported INE population for Torrevieja municipality is 95,037, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Torrevieja municipality, recorded population changed by 15.0%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Torrevieja municipality is €9,868 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 44.1 years for Torrevieja municipality, for period 2023.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 9 displayed population observations for Torrevieja municipality is 84,070 residents. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

INE records 21.9% of residents aged 65 or over for Torrevieja municipality, in period 2023.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Torrevieja municipality records €2,216 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

MITMA records an appraised housing value of €2,182 per square metre for Torrevieja municipality in 2026Q1. Appraised value is a different basis from both asking and completed-sale price.

The displayed series for Torrevieja municipality begins at €1,507 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 Torrevieja municipality, the highest appraised housing value value is €2,182 per m² in 2026Q1.

The latest Registradores province average is €202,776 in 2026Q2 for Alicante. It remains labelled as province-level evidence.

The imported Notariado snapshot states a fetch timestamp of 2026-08-03 21:39:29. It is a current snapshot, not a historical quarterly series.

Dirección General del Catastro records 17,969 buildings for Torrevieja municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 125,651 dwellings for Torrevieja 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 Torrevieja municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 45,474 energy certificates for Torrevieja municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

The 2010 onward band contains 380 recorded buildings for Torrevieja municipality, representing 2.1% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Before 1950 band contains 144 recorded buildings for Torrevieja municipality, representing 0.8% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The current eligible public inventory contains 5 listings for Los Balcones. The count excludes sold, withdrawn, expired, rejected, draft, private, off-market and feed-private records.

The current public inventory is: 3 villas; 1 apartment; 1 plot. 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 €299,000 to €595,000. These are live asking prices, not completed-sale values.

The difference between the current published minimum of €299,000 and maximum of €595,000 is €296,000. This describes the live mix of listings and is not a market-value estimate.

NLS currently shows 1 eligible public apartment for Los Balcones, equal to 20.0% of the 5-listing area inventory.

No. The Los Balcones 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.