Sierra de Altea, 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.

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

Sierra de Altea is treated as a property-search area. When an exact municipality can be resolved, official statistics retain the label Altea municipality; no municipality figure is relabelled as neighbourhood-level evidence.

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 simple arithmetic mean across the 9 displayed population observations for Altea municipality is 22,352 residents. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

Within the 9 displayed observations for Altea municipality, the highest population value is 24,027 residents in 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.

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

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.

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 1950–1969 band contains 592 recorded buildings for Altea municipality, representing 9.8% of the buildings included in the displayed age distribution.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is 1970–1989, with 2,169 buildings, or 35.8% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

The current eligible public inventory contains 5 listings for Sierra de Altea. The count excludes sold, withdrawn, expired, rejected, draft, private, off-market and feed-private records.

The current public inventory is: 4 villas; 1 plot. 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 €199,000 to €3,495,000. These are live asking prices, not completed-sale values.

The difference between the current published minimum of €199,000 and maximum of €3,495,000 is €3,296,000. This describes the live mix of listings and is not a market-value estimate.

No. The Sierra de Altea 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 4 eligible public villas for Sierra de Altea, equal to 80.0% of the 5-listing area inventory.