Properties for sale in Valencia

Local overview

Valencia, known officially in Valencian as València, is the capital and largest city of the Valencian Community and the province of the same name in Spain. It is located on the banks of the Turia, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula on the Mediterranean Sea. The urban area of Valencia has 1.6 million people while the metropolitan region has 2.5 million.

Valencia was founded as a Roman colony in 138 BC as "Valentia Edetanorum". As an autonomous city in late antiquity, its militarization followed the onset of the threat posed by the Byzantine presence to the South, together with effective integration to the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo in the late 6th century. Islamic rule and acculturation ensued in the 8th century, together with the introduction of new irrigation systems and crops. With the Aragonese Christian conquest in 1238, the city became the capital of the Kingdom of Valencia.

The emergence of the Atlantic World affected Mediterranean trade in the global trade networks and, along with insecurity created by Barbary piracy throughout the 16th century. The 16th century had been notable for the large number of religious foundations which, according to one estimate, suggested that one third of its area had been occupied by religious buildings. The city's economic activity suffered a crisis following the expulsion of the Moriscos in 1609.

The city became a major silk manufacturing centre in the 18th century. During the Spanish Civil War, the city served as the provisional seat of the Spanish Government from 1936 to 1937.

The Port of Valencia is one of the busiest container ports in Europe and the Mediterranean. The city is ranked as a Gamma-level global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Valencia has numerous celebrations and traditions, such as the Falles (or Fallas), which were declared a Fiesta of National Tourist Interest of Spain in 1965 and an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in November 2016. The city was selected as the World Design Capital 2022 and the European Green Capital 2024.

Official geography

The official INE register places Valencia in Valencia province under municipality code 46250. The linked structured record provides a recorded municipal area of 134.65 square kilometres and a reference coordinate of 39.4700, -0.3764. The coordinate is a municipal reference point, not a property, parcel boundary or radius from which local claims are inferred.

Settlements and local form

Valencia’s current IGN settlement record contains 16 official population nuclei. The imported source records are dated through 2025-11-28. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is València, at a recorded elevation of approximately 13 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Benimàmet-Beniferri (15,176 residents in the cited settlement record), Castellar-Oliveral (6,365 residents in the cited settlement record), Massarrojos (2,416 residents in the cited settlement record), Pinedo (2,130 residents in the cited settlement record), and El Perellonet (1,505 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.

How this guide keeps the evidence local

The data sections below keep Valencia’s municipality evidence separate from wider province and regional comparisons. This prevents similarly named places in other provinces from being blended together. Where a municipality-level series is unavailable, the page labels the province fallback explicitly; current NLS asking inventory remains separate from completed-sale, demographic and cadastral evidence.