Santander, Cantabria property and area FAQs

Santander is the capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain. It is a port city located in the northern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, facing the Cantabrian Sea.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 5 official population nuclei for Santander. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-21. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Santander, at a recorded elevation of approximately 5 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Peñacastillo (20,001 residents in the cited settlement record), San Román (14,699 residents in the cited settlement record), Cueto (9,665 residents in the cited settlement record), and Monte (2,580 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.

It is believed to have been a port since ancient times, due to its favourable location, and is documented as far back as the 11th century. Much of the old city was lost in the Great Fire of 1941. The city was then rebuilt realizing Francoist ideals of social segregation. Today, its remaining old town, beach and other attractions are popular with tourists and other visitors and its economy is mainly service based. The port is still very active and a regular ferry service operates to the United Kingdom. Fish and seafood dominate the local cuisine. Santander notably houses the headquarters of multinational bank Banco Santander, which was founded there. The city has a mild climate typical of the Spanish northern coastline with frequent rainfall and stable temperatures. Cold snaps and heat waves are very rare.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 36.1 square kilometres for Santander municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

NLS resolves the municipality context through INE code 39075 and keeps the province label Cantabria. Name-only fuzzy matching is not used to assign official market values.

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

The audited municipality record contains 7 additional named-place records for Santander municipality. This count describes geographic records, not neighbourhood boundaries or properties for sale.

The official municipality context used for Santander has INE code 39075. That code prevents same-name municipalities in different provinces from being combined.

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

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 5 official population nuclei for Santander municipality. These are settlement records, not property listings.

The linked structured record gives a municipal reference coordinate of 43.4667, -3.8000. It is not a listing coordinate, parcel boundary or search radius.

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

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

The sourced municipality record gives a reference elevation of approximately 15 metres. Elevation can vary within the municipality and is not a property-specific measurement.

Santander 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.

Dividing the INE population of 171,252 by the recorded municipal area of 36.1 km² gives approximately 4,746.5 residents per km² for Santander municipality. This is a transparent calculation from the two cited values.

The latest imported INE population for Santander municipality is 171,252, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Santander municipality, recorded population changed by 0.3%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Santander municipality is €16,389 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 47.5 years for Santander municipality, for period 2023.

The latest imported INE figure is 2.30 people per household for Santander municipality, for period 2023.

INE records 27.0% of residents aged 65 or over for Santander municipality, in period 2023.

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

The imported INE nationality series implies a non-Spanish resident share of 10.4% for Santander municipality, in period 2023.

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

From 2015 to 2023, the displayed population value for Santander municipality changed by 0.3%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 9 displayed population observations for Santander municipality is 170,485 residents. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

Within the 9 displayed observations for Santander municipality, the highest population value is 171,383 residents in 2019.

Within the same displayed series for Santander municipality, the lowest population value is 169,558 residents in 2021.

The displayed series for Santander municipality begins at 170,738 residents in 2015. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Santander municipality records €2,809 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

MITMA records an appraised housing value of €2,601 per square metre for Santander municipality in 2026Q1. Appraised value is a different basis from both asking and completed-sale price.

The displayed series for Santander municipality begins at €1,986 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 Santander municipality, the highest appraised housing value value is €2,601 per m² in 2026Q1.

Registradores reports a foreign-buyer share of 4.4% for Cantabria in 2026Q2. It is regional context, not a municipality estimate.

Within the 8 displayed observations for Cantabria province, the highest registered sale-price benchmark value is €2,236 per m² in 2026Q2.

Within the 8 displayed observations for Cantabria, the highest regional house-price index value is 111.3 index points in 2026Q2.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 12 displayed appraised housing value observations for Santander municipality is €2,244 per m². It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

From 2024Q3 to 2026Q2, the displayed regional foreign-buyer share value for Cantabria changed by 20.4%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

The page uses 8 published observations for Cantabria province, running from 2024Q3 to 2026Q2.

2,016 of 2,270 recorded transactions inform the published price measures for Santander municipality, equal to 88.8%.

Within the same displayed series for Cantabria province, the lowest registered sale-price benchmark value is €1,794 per m² in 2024Q3.

The price-informed transactions in the Notariado snapshot have an average recorded surface of 92 m² for Santander municipality.

The current Notariado snapshot records an average completed sale price of €257,283 for Santander municipality. An aggregate average is not a valuation of an individual home.

From 2023Q2 to 2026Q1, the displayed appraised housing value value for Santander municipality changed by 31.0%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

Across the latest four displayed MITMA quarters, resale housing represents 90.3% of transactions for Santander municipality.

The current snapshot contains 2,270 recorded transactions for Santander municipality. The price sample may be smaller because not every transaction carries a publishable price measure.

Dirección General del Catastro records 10,754 buildings for Santander municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 94,109 dwellings for Santander 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 1,962 for Santander municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 20,732 energy certificates for Santander municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

The 2010 onward band contains 327 recorded buildings for Santander municipality, representing 3.1% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The Catastro extract records 94,109 dwellings across 10,754 buildings for Santander municipality, or approximately 8.75 dwellings per recorded building.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is Before 1950, with 3,244 buildings, or 30.3% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

The 1950–1969 band contains 3,141 recorded buildings for Santander municipality, representing 29.4% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

Among the imported certificates for Santander municipality, 4.9% are rated A, B or C. The share applies only to registered certificates in the dataset.

The Before 1950 band contains 3,244 recorded buildings for Santander municipality, representing 30.3% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1990–2009 band contains 1,394 recorded buildings for Santander municipality, representing 13.0% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The 1970–1989 band contains 2,586 recorded buildings for Santander municipality, representing 24.2% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

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