Montefrío, Granada property and area FAQs

Montefrio is a municipality in the province of Granada. The ruins of a Moorish castle sit near the highest point. Being built midway between the Sierra de Priego and Sierra Parapanda, and commanding the open valley between these ranges, it became one of the chief frontier fortresses of the Moors in the 15th century.

Montefrío’s current IGN settlement record contains 2 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-17. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Montefrío, at a recorded elevation of approximately 839 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Lojilla (43 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.

The climate of Montefrío is a continental Mediterranean type. The economy is typically agrarian, with olives as the main crop. The relatively limited industry revolves around agricultural processing such as oil and dairy products. Near the town is a vast archaeological site known as Las Peñas de los Gitanos, famous for its prehistoric tombs and remains of Roman and Visigothic settlements.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 253.9 square kilometres for Montefrío municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 18135 and keeps the province label Granada. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

Montefrío 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 audited municipality record contains 251 additional named-place records for Montefrío municipality. This count describes geographic records, not neighbourhood boundaries or properties for sale.

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

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

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

The latest imported INE population for Montefrío municipality is 5,252, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Montefrío municipality, recorded population changed by -5.6%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Montefrío municipality is €9,570 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 46.4 years for Montefrío municipality, for period 2023.

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

INE records 24.3% of residents aged 65 or over for Montefrío municipality, in period 2023.

The latest imported INE figure is 2.20 people per household for Montefrío municipality, for period 2023.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 9 displayed population observations for Montefrío municipality is 5,364 residents. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

Within the same displayed series for Montefrío municipality, the lowest population value is 5,239 residents in 2019.

Within the 9 displayed observations for Montefrío municipality, the highest population value is 5,566 residents in 2015.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Montefrío municipality records €613 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

Registradores reports a foreign-buyer share of 16.0% for Andalucía in 2026Q2. It is regional context, not a municipality estimate.

The displayed series for Andalucía begins at 14.3% 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 Andalucía, the highest regional foreign-buyer share value is 16.0% in 2026Q2.

The page uses 12 published observations for Montefrío municipality, running from 2023Q3 to 2026Q2.

The current Notariado snapshot records an average completed sale price of €61,970 for Montefrío municipality. An aggregate average is not a valuation of an individual home.

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.

Within the 8 displayed observations for Andalucía, the highest regional house-price index value is 110.9 index points in 2026Q2.

Within the 12 displayed observations for Montefrío municipality, the highest quarterly transaction count value is 21 transactions in 2025Q1.

Within the same displayed series for Granada province, the lowest registered sale-price benchmark value is €1,317 per m² in 2024Q3.

Dirección General del Catastro records 3,920 buildings for Montefrío municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 2,860 dwellings for Montefrío 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 1,960 for Montefrío municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 172 energy certificates for Montefrío municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

The Before 1950 band contains 1,650 recorded buildings for Montefrío municipality, representing 42.2% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1950–1969 band contains 630 recorded buildings for Montefrío municipality, representing 16.1% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

Among the imported certificates for Montefrío municipality, 16.9% are rated A, B or C. The share applies only to registered certificates in the dataset.

The 1970–1989 band contains 652 recorded buildings for Montefrío municipality, representing 16.7% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Catastro extract records 2,860 dwellings across 3,920 buildings for Montefrío municipality, or approximately 0.73 dwellings per recorded building.

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