PAU 26, Alicante property and area FAQs

Orihuela (historically also known in Valencian as Oriola) is a city and municipality located at the foot of the Sierra de Orihuela mountains in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain. The city is in one of the Spanish-speaking areas of the Valencian Community.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 93 official population nuclei for Orihuela. The imported source records are dated through 2025-11-27. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Orihuela, at a recorded elevation of approximately 18 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Las Piscinas-Sector J-1 (2,097 residents in the cited settlement record), La Murada (2,038 residents in the cited settlement record), San Bartolomé (1,831 residents in the cited settlement record), Playa Flamenca II (1,795 residents in the cited settlement record), and Lagosol-Sector F-2 (1,763 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 river Segura flows through Orihuela. The city was settled by Romans who called it Orcelis and subsequently Aurariola (Latin: "breeze").

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 365.4 square kilometres for Orihuela municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 03099 and keeps the province label Alicante. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

The official municipality context used for PAU 26 has INE code 03099. 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.

The latest imported INE population for Orihuela municipality is 82,981, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Orihuela municipality, recorded population changed by 10.1%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Orihuela municipality is €11,512 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 44.7 years for Orihuela municipality, for period 2023.

Within the 9 displayed observations for Orihuela municipality, the highest population value is 82,981 residents in 2023.

From 2015 to 2023, the displayed population value for Orihuela municipality changed by 10.1%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Orihuela municipality records €2,309 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

MITMA records an appraised housing value of €2,166 per square metre for Orihuela municipality in 2026Q1. Appraised value is a different basis from both asking and completed-sale price.

The displayed series for Orihuela municipality begins at €1,347 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 Orihuela municipality, the highest appraised housing value value is €2,166 per m² in 2026Q1.

Colegio de Registradores reports €2,194 per square metre for Alicante province in 2026Q2. This is province context, not a local substitute.

The published price measures use 4,295 price-informed sales from 4,525 total recorded transactions for Orihuela municipality.

Dirección General del Catastro records 23,418 buildings for Orihuela municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 87,675 dwellings for Orihuela 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 1,972 for Orihuela municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 27,380 energy certificates for Orihuela municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

Among the imported certificates for Orihuela municipality, 5.0% are rated A, B or C. The share applies only to registered certificates in the dataset.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is 1970–1989, with 7,495 buildings, or 32.2% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

The current eligible public inventory contains 1 listing for PAU 26. The count excludes sold, withdrawn, expired, rejected, draft, private, off-market and feed-private records.

The current public inventory is: 1 villa. 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 €429,000 to €429,000. These are live asking prices, not completed-sale values.

No. The PAU 26 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.

NLS currently shows 1 eligible public villa for PAU 26, equal to 100.0% of the 1-listing area inventory.