Mascarat, Alicante property and area FAQs

Altea is a town and municipality located in the Valencian Community, Spain, on the section of Mediterranean coast called the Costa Blanca.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 13 official population nuclei for Altea. The imported source records are dated through 2025-11-27. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Altea, at a recorded elevation of approximately 52 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Urbanització Serra d'Altea (2,143 residents in the cited settlement record), l'Olla (1,474 residents in the cited settlement record), Urbanització La Galera Baixa (1,027 residents in the cited settlement record), Altea la Vella (618 residents in the cited settlement record), and Urbanització Alhama (411 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.

At present, the economy of Altea is based on tourism, which started to grow in the 1950s because of its good weather, beaches and the labyrinthine streets with whitewashed house-fronts that characterize the town. Altea is protected on the north by the bluffs of the Serra de Bèrnia, creating an especially mild microclimate. Its seafront esplanade is planted with palms.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 34.4 square kilometres for Altea municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

The linked structured record gives a municipal reference coordinate of 38.6000, -0.0489. It is not a listing coordinate, parcel boundary or search radius.

The sourced municipality record gives a reference elevation of approximately 61 metres. Elevation can vary within the municipality and is not a property-specific measurement.

The latest imported INE population for Altea municipality is 24,027, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Altea municipality, recorded population changed by 10.2%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Altea municipality is €12,822 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 45.4 years for Altea municipality, for period 2023.

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

The imported INE nationality series implies a non-Spanish resident share of 38.3% for Altea municipality, in period 2023.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Altea municipality records €2,901 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

Registradores reports a foreign-buyer share of 31.0% for Comunitat Valenciana in 2026Q2. It is regional context, not a municipality estimate.

The displayed series for Comunitat Valenciana begins at 28.5% 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 Comunitat Valenciana, the highest regional foreign-buyer share value is 31.0% in 2026Q2.

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.

The displayed series for Comunitat Valenciana begins at 90.2 index points in 2024Q3. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

Dirección General del Catastro records 6,085 buildings for Altea municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 16,620 dwellings for Altea 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 1,970 for Altea municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 6,599 energy certificates for Altea municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

The 1990–2009 band contains 1,780 recorded buildings for Altea municipality, representing 29.3% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Catastro extract records 16,620 dwellings across 6,085 buildings for Altea municipality, or approximately 2.73 dwellings per recorded building.

The current eligible public inventory contains 4 listings for Mascarat. The count excludes sold, withdrawn, expired, rejected, draft, private, off-market and feed-private records.

The current public inventory is: 2 apartments; 2 villas. 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 €105,000 to €1,495,000. These are live asking prices, not completed-sale values.

The difference between the current published minimum of €105,000 and maximum of €1,495,000 is €1,390,000. This describes the live mix of listings and is not a market-value estimate.

NLS currently shows 2 eligible public apartments for Mascarat, equal to 50.0% of the 4-listing area inventory.

No. The Mascarat 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.