In Alicante, 14% of homes listed on Idealista in the second quarter of 2025 were snapped up in less than a week, a notch above Spain’s average, according to the property site’s own figures.
Even so, the Costa Blanca capital doesn’t make the top 10.
Granada takes the crown, where nearly a third of homes (32%) found a buyer in under seven days. Huesca (27%), Soria (25%), Ceuta (23%), Castellón de la Plana (22%) and Pamplona (22%) follow close behind.
Next come Vitoria (19%), Ávila (19%) and the quartet of Santander, Guadalajara, Madrid and Toledo, each at 18%. Among bigger markets, Bilbao sits at 16%, San Sebastián at 15%, and both Alicante and Sevilla at 14%. Barcelona, Málaga and Palma are tied at 12%.
These figures arrive as warnings grow over Alicante’s housing shortage. The province will need almost 165,000 new homes this decade to keep pace with population growth, according to the Spanish Association of Real Estate Consultancy (ACI).
So far this decade, Alicante has fallen short by more than 31,000 new builds, leaving supply well behind demand and pushing prices higher than ever. That puts the province third in Spain for the largest housing deficit over the past five years.
Based on National Statistics Institute (INE) forecasts, the ACI estimates that Alicante will add around 25,600 new homes in 2025, with that number dropping slightly each year until it hits about 17,746 by decade’s end. By then, the province’s population is expected to reach 2.27 million, spread across more than 937,000 households.
