Key Takeaways
- ✓ We publish no rental yield figures. We hold no booking data, so any percentage would be invented. What follows is price and supply only.
- ✓ The whole book is 2,108 listings: 1,900 new build against 208 resale. Supply is overwhelmingly forward-dated.
- ✓ Under €150,000 there are 46 listings and 41 are in Torrevieja – the entry market is effectively one town.
- ✓ Torrevieja is the only balanced market we cover: 125 new build, 125 resale, median €260,000.
- ✓ Beach proximity carries a clear premium: 216 near-beach listings median €406,050 against a €260,000 town median in Torrevieja.
Start with what we are not going to do. We do not publish rental yields, occupancy rates or return projections, because we hold no booking data and any figure we produced would be a guess dressed as research. Plenty of agencies will give you a percentage. Ours would be fiction.
What we can show you is the part of the picture that is real: where the entry prices are, how deep the stock is at each level, and where the new-build pipeline is concentrated. That is enough to judge whether a market has room to buy into, which is the question that actually comes first.
The book, by price band
| Price band | Listings | Median | Deepest town in the band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under €150,000 | 46 | €139,900 | Torrevieja (41 listings) |
| €150,000–€200,000 | 68 | €175,000 | Torrevieja (38) |
| €200,000–€250,000 | 104 | €229,000 | Torrevieja (31) |
| €250,000–€300,000 | 156 | €275,000 | Torrevieja (40) |
| €300,000–€400,000 | 361 | €349,900 | Torrevieja (53) |
| €400,000–€600,000 | 529 | €483,000 | Mijas (73) |
| €600,000–€1,000,000 | 423 | €782,700 | Estepona (82) |
| Over €1,000,000 | 421 | €1,890,000 | Marbella (65) |
Two things jump out. First, Torrevieja is the deepest town in every band up to €400,000 – five bands in a row. If you are buying at the affordable end, the search lands you in Torrevieja by default, and the useful skill is telling its districts apart rather than its rivals.
Second, the volume is at the top. There are 529 listings between €400,000 and €600,000 and only 46 under €150,000. The cheap end of this coast is thin, competitive and quick-moving. That is a demand signal in itself.
Supply: a new-build coast
Of 2,108 live listings, 1,900 are new build and 208 are resale. Some towns are entirely one-sided: all 58 Calpe listings, all 37 Benijófar listings, all 25 Polop listings and all 19 La Nucía listings are new build. Guardamar runs 42 new build against two resale, Pilar de la Horadada 101 against two.
That has direct consequences for a buyer. New build in the Valencia region carries 10% IVA plus 1.5% AJD stamp duty rather than the 10% ITP transfer tax on a resale, and the money goes out in staged payments against build progress rather than in one completion. It also means your competition on a given unit is often a price list, not another bidder.
It also means the resale market is genuinely scarce, and that scarcity is concentrated: 125 of the 208 resale listings on our whole book are in Torrevieja. If your plan depends on buying something already built, already rented or already fitted out, that is where to look.
€135,500
€180,000
€249,000
New build€305,000
New build€359,000
New build€550,000What the feature counts tell you about demand
Feature scarcity is a reasonable proxy for what buyers chase. A communal pool appears on 1,491 listings, so it is close to standard and not a differentiator. A private pool appears on only 303, at a €1,271,000 median – a top-end feature, not a mid-market one.
Sea views are the scarcest thing on the coast: 212 listings in total, of which 170 are €400,000 or more, ten between €150,000 and €250,000 and exactly one below €150,000. Near-beach listings number 216 at a €406,050 median. Golf-adjacent stock runs to 154 listings at €519,000.
The reading is straightforward. If you want a feature that is genuinely scarce, you pay a large premium for it; if you want one that is near-universal, do not pay a premium at all. A communal pool should not add to the asking price on this coast. A sea view genuinely does.
Demand drivers, described honestly
We can describe why demand exists here without pretending to quantify it. Alicante airport keeps northern Europe within a short flight, which underpins both holiday use and the long winter-stay pattern. Torrevieja has a large permanent international population, so its rental demand is not purely seasonal in the way a pure resort’s is. Golf and beach proximity concentrate demand into specific urbanisations rather than spreading it evenly across a town.
What none of that tells you is what any individual property will earn. That depends on the unit, the licence, the management and the year. Ask us for the property-level facts – community fees, licence status, orientation, floor, lift – and treat any agency that hands you a confident yield number with suspicion.
The current entry level, in four listings
€119,900Studio, Los Frutales
Torrevieja · Los Frutales
€155,000Two-bed bungalow, Playa Flamenca
Orihuela Costa · Playa Flamenca
All four sit in the bottom band, which holds 46 listings in total. Search it yourself through property for sale in Torrevieja and apartments for sale, or look at the forward supply on the new-build list. If letting is part of the plan, our long-term rentals and holiday rentals pages show what we actually manage.
What to ask before you buy
Four questions cover most of the risk. What are the community fees and what do they include? Is there a tourist licence, and is the region still issuing them for that building? What floor is it on and is there a lift? And what is the nota simple showing on charges and debts?
None of those are glamorous and all of them change the arithmetic more than a headline yield would. Send us a budget and what you intend to do with the property, and we will come back with the property-level facts rather than a percentage.