Melilla property and area FAQs

Melilla is an autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast. It lies on the eastern side of the Cape Three Forks, on the Morocco–Spain border, adjacent to the Moroccan port town of Beni Ansar, and faces the Mediterranean Sea. It has an area of 14.24 km2 (5.50 sq mi).

For Melilla, the IGN Nomenclátor currently lists 1 official population nucleus. The imported source records are dated through 2025-11-27. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Melilla, at a recorded elevation of approximately 2 metres. Nomenclátor entries describe settlement geography; they are not listing totals, neighbourhood boundaries or evidence of homes currently available for sale.

The trading outpost of Rusadir was established on the current site by seafaring Phoenicians. Passed over among several powers during Antiquity and the middle ages, the place was forsaken amid strife between the Kingdoms of Fez and Tlemcen, and it was seized by Christians in 1497, constituting a condominium between the House of Medina Sidonia and the Crown of Castile until 1556. Integrated in the Hispanic Monarchy, the fortress of Melilla la Vieja remained a military praesidium with limited civilian population for much of the early modern period. After the expansion of Melilla's perimeter to its current limits in the wake of the Treaty of Wad Ras (1860), the area in between Melilla la Vieja and the outer forts was urbanised and populated by mainland Spaniards, Sephardi Jews and Riffians, and the local economy thrived from the mining (iron ore) operations in the eastern Rif. Prior to the passing of its Statute of Autonomy in 1995, Melilla was a regular municipality of the province of Málaga.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 12.3 square kilometres for Melilla municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

Melilla 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 stated official-data scope is Melilla municipality. Current NLS listings use the property-search area itself, while official market and demographic measures keep their own published geography visible.

The audited municipality record contains 0 additional named-place records for Melilla municipality. This count describes geographic records, not neighbourhood boundaries or properties for sale.

The official municipality context used for Melilla has INE code 52001. That code prevents same-name municipalities in different provinces from being combined.

Yes. The structured municipality record includes an official website field. NLS treats that as identity context and not as property-market evidence.

Melilla is shown within Melilla province. Province-level figures are explicitly labelled when a municipality-level series is unavailable.

Melilla is an official municipality in Melilla province, Spain. Its exact municipality identity is used for the official evidence on this page.

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 52001 and keeps the province label Melilla. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

The sourced municipality record gives a reference elevation of approximately 30 metres. Elevation can vary within the municipality and is not a property-specific measurement.

The latest imported INE population for Melilla municipality is 83,360, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Melilla municipality, recorded population changed by 1.6%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Melilla municipality is €13,995 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 36.9 years for Melilla municipality, for period 2023.

The displayed series for Melilla municipality begins at 82,079 residents in 2015. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 9 displayed population observations for Melilla municipality is 82,779 residents. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

The imported INE nationality series implies a non-Spanish resident share of 12.8% for Melilla municipality, in period 2023.

The page uses 9 published observations for Melilla municipality, running from 2015 to 2023.

The latest imported INE figure is 3.20 people per household for Melilla municipality, for period 2023.

Within the same displayed series for Melilla municipality, the lowest population value is 82,079 residents in 2015.

Within the 9 displayed observations for Melilla municipality, the highest population value is 83,500 residents in 2019.

The population figure uses INE period 2023. The page shows the period beside the value so it is not mistaken for a live counter.

INE records 12.4% of residents aged 65 or over for Melilla municipality, in period 2023.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Melilla municipality records €1,932 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

MITMA records an appraised housing value of €2,123 per square metre for Melilla municipality in 2026Q1. Appraised value is a different basis from both asking and completed-sale price.

The displayed series for Melilla municipality begins at €1,815 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 Melilla municipality, the highest appraised housing value value is €2,123 per m² in 2026Q1.

The price-informed transactions in the Notariado snapshot have an average recorded surface of 96 m² for Melilla municipality.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 8 displayed registered sale-price benchmark observations for Melilla province is €1,950 per m². It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 8 displayed regional house-price index observations for Melilla is 100.2 index points. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

Within the same displayed series for Melilla, the lowest regional house-price index value is 89.2 index points in 2024Q3.

Within the 8 displayed observations for Melilla, the highest regional house-price index value is 113.2 index points in 2026Q2.

From 2023Q2 to 2026Q1, the displayed appraised housing value value for Melilla municipality changed by 17.0%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 12 displayed appraised housing value observations for Melilla municipality is €1,939 per m². It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

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 current snapshot contains 697 recorded transactions for Melilla municipality. The price sample may be smaller because not every transaction carries a publishable price measure.

Dirección General del Catastro records 9,777 buildings for Melilla municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 27,235 dwellings for Melilla 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 1,968 for Melilla municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is Before 1950, with 3,481 buildings, or 35.7% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

The 1970–1989 band contains 771 recorded buildings for Melilla municipality, representing 7.9% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1950–1969 band contains 1,590 recorded buildings for Melilla municipality, representing 16.3% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1990–2009 band contains 3,087 recorded buildings for Melilla municipality, representing 31.7% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Catastro extract records 27,235 dwellings across 9,777 buildings for Melilla municipality, or approximately 2.79 dwellings per recorded building.

The 2010 onward band contains 821 recorded buildings for Melilla municipality, representing 8.4% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Before 1950 band contains 3,481 recorded buildings for Melilla municipality, representing 35.7% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The current eligible public inventory contains 0 listings for Melilla. The count excludes sold, withdrawn, expired, rejected, draft, private, off-market and feed-private records.