The 17 Valencian municipalities with the most expensive homes
About 458,500 euros. That is the average price for which anyone who wants to buy a house in the Marina Alta and Marina Baixa counties will have to fight for a mortgage at their bank branch since, as reflected in the latest ranking of the hundred cities with the prices of the most expensive real estate properties in Spain published by Idealista, these two Alicante regions bring together in that classification up to three municipalities of the 17 that the Valencian Community (14 in Alicante, two in Valencia and one in Castellón) contributes to the list.
According to the data published this Thursday, the Valencian town in which the average price of housing reaches a higher figure is Xàbia, where anyone who wants to buy a home in which to settle must part with the not insignificant figure of 721,003 euros, which catapults the coastal city of Marina Alta to fifth place in the national classification and first place in the Valencian Community.
Not far away, in the ninth national position and with a meritorious second regional position, is the beautiful town of Altea where the presence of numerous luxury villas, especially in the Altea Hills urbanization, shoots up the average price of housing to 605,163 euros, forming, together with the already mentioned Xàbia, the duo of municipalities where buyers must pay, on average, more than half a million euros to enjoy a property roof.
Calpe, l’Alfàs del Pi and Dénia complete the top 5 of the most expensive municipalities in the Valencian Community and are, respectively, in 16th, 18th and 23rd place in the national ranking. The city of Peñón d’Ifach, in which the international market has a very important specific weight, raises the average price of housing to 459,353 euros, while a little further south, in l’Alfàs del Pi, the square meter in the area of l’Albir it has been one of the most valued in the country for years, that amount remains at a not inconsiderable 405,245 euros.
Dénia, in fifth place in the region, is the first city in the Community in that classification in which the average price of housing is below 400,000 euros, although anyone who wishes to reside in the port town must have (or convince the bank to grant him a mortgage) of 342,158 euros.
One of the most curious data in the ranking published by Idealista is left by Benidorm. The tourist capital of the Valencian Community and the great showcase of the entire region and, of course, of the districts of Las Marinas, stands out from its neighboring municipalities. In the city of skyscrapers, the average price of housing is ‘only’ 218,047 euros, which places it in the 48th national square and in the eighth of the Valencian Community.
El Campello, in l’Alacantí, and Orihuela, in the Vega Baja, are the two ‘outsider’ towns that sneak in between the already mentioned Marinas. There, respectively, the average prices of real estate properties stand at 310,475 and 256,417 euros.
The city of Valencia, which closes the top 10 of the Community, appears as the first non-Alicante municipality in that list of the 100 most expensive towns in all of Spain, occupying the 51st national position thanks to the 216,309 euros that, on average, those who want to live in Cap i Casal. The province of Valencia completes its representation in the ranking with Torrent, where the average house price is 183,262 euros.
The last of the Valencian municipalities that makes it into the national top100 is Castellón de la Plana, which, in turn, is the only city in the province of Castellón that appears in it. It does so in the 89th position in all of Spain with an average of 141,942 euros.
In any case, and as a minor consolation, buyers can always relieve themselves a bit by thinking that even the 721,003 euros of Xàbia, the town with the most expensive average price in the entire Community, are still very far from the absolute national podium that they dominate, for In this order, Malaga’s Benahavís (1,826,613 euros), Balearic Calvià (1,433,987 euros) and the well-known Marbella (1,169,929 euros).
