Anyone looking to buy a home on the Costa Blanca will already know that the property market remains busy. The latest figures show the wider Valencian Community is also moving against the national trend.
Home sales across the Valencian Community rose by 7.9% in June compared with the same month last year, according to the Centro de Información Estadística del Notariado (CIEN).
At the same time, the average price per square metre jumped by 21%.
The figures cover the whole Valencian Community rather than the Costa Blanca alone. However, they provide a useful indication of the market surrounding Alicante province and the Costa Blanca.
Home sales rise while Spain records a fall
The Valencian Community recorded the second-largest increase in home sales among Spain’s autonomous regions in June.
Only Navarra recorded stronger growth, at 18.6%. Sales rose by 5.4% in Cantabria and 4.8% in Castilla y León.
The picture across Spain looked very different.
Nationally, home sales fell by 4% compared with June 2025, with 67,529 transactions.
Thirteen autonomous regions recorded fewer sales, while only four saw an increase.
That puts the 7.9% rise in the Valencian Community well ahead of the national market.
Property prices rise by 21%
Prices also continued to climb.
The average price per square metre in the Valencian Community increased by 21% compared with June last year.
Only Cantabria, at 41.6%, and Murcia, at 22.1%, recorded larger percentage increases.
Across Spain, the average reached €2,114 per square metre, an annual increase of 8.8%.
Again, the regional figure does not mean Costa Blanca property prices specifically rose by 21%. The CIEN data groups Alicante, Valencia and Castellón provinces together.
Nevertheless, the figures point to continued pressure on property prices in the region that includes the Costa Blanca.
Mortgage activity also increases
The Valencian Community recorded Spain’s largest increase in the number of new mortgages for home purchases.
Mortgage numbers rose by 11.6% compared with June 2025.
Murcia followed with an increase of 7.6%, while the Canary Islands recorded growth of 7.2%.
The average value of new home-purchase mortgages in the Valencian Community also increased by 19.1%, the highest rise in Spain.
Nationally, mortgage numbers increased by just 0.2%.
The average new mortgage across Spain reached €188,785, up 7.3% over the year.
More than half of Spanish purchases involve a mortgage
Across Spain, buyers used a mortgage to finance 53.7% of home purchases during June.
For those purchases, the mortgage covered an average of 72.3% of the property price.
The figures also reveal differences between property types.
Apartment sales across Spain fell by 5.6%, while sales of detached and other single-family homes increased by 0.8%.
Apartment prices rose by 13.8% to an average of €2,529 per square metre. Prices for single-family homes increased by 2.5% to €1,504 per square metre.
What do the figures mean for the Costa Blanca?
The figures do not provide a separate breakdown for Costa Blanca towns, so they cannot tell us whether prices in Benidorm, Torrevieja, Javea or elsewhere rose by exactly 21%.
What they do show is that the Valencian Community entered the summer with rising sales, prices and mortgage activity while much of Spain recorded falling sales.
The notarial figures come from transactions recorded across Spain. CIEN considers figures from the latest three months provisional until it receives all the information required for its reports.
Bridging the Gap’s recap
- Home sales in the Valencian Community rose by 7.9% in June.
- Spain as a whole recorded a 4% fall in home sales.
- Average property prices in the Valencian Community increased by 21%.
- The regional figures include the Costa Blanca but do not provide separate Costa Blanca data.
- New home-purchase mortgages in the Valencian Community increased by 11.6%, the strongest growth in Spain.
- The average value of new mortgages in the Valencian Community rose by 19.1%.
- Across Spain, the average property price reached €2,114 per square metre.
- CIEN says figures covering the latest three months remain provisional.
