Foreign demand for housing places the Marina Alta in a prominent position within the Spanish real estate map. Three municipalities in the region appear among the 20 towns in Spain where foreign interest in finding a home exceeds national demand, according to an analysis prepared by the real estate platform Idealista.
In all three cases, Demand from abroad ranges between 50% and 60% of the totalThis data places these towns in the region in a small group of Spanish destinations where international interest carries more weight than national interest when consulting about homes for sale.
Three towns in the Marina Alta region where foreign demand is already the majority
The platform's study indicates that only four of the analyzed locations exceed the 60% foreign demand threshold: Canyamel, Cala d'Or, and Cala Ratjada in Mallorca, and Cómpeta in Málaga. Just behind them is the group between 50% and 60%, which includes... Moraira, Benitatxell and Benissa.
In that same area are Oria, in Almería; Nerja and Frigiliana, in Málaga; Tijarafe, in Tenerife; and Pájara, in Fuerteventura.
Alicante leads in foreign interest in buying property
The presence of these three localities in the region also occurs within the province that heads the study. Alicante registers 32,3% foreign demand out of the total number of visits to homes for sale, the highest percentage among the provinces collected by the platform.
Following Alicante are the Balearic Islands, with 28,2%; Málaga, with 27,1%; and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with 26,5%. These are the only four provinces mentioned in the analysis that exceed 25%, while There are up to 14 provinces, all of them coastal, where foreign interest exceeds 10% of demand.
The Dutch overtake the British in Alicante
The analysis also reveals the source of much of that international interest. While the British lead foreign demand in several Andalusian provinces, In Alicante, the Dutch are ahead of the British., according to data compiled by Idealista.
By nationality, the pattern is repeated in the three points of the Marina Alta. The Dutch hold the top position in foreign interest in housing in Moraira, Benitatxell and BenissaFrom there, the order changes: in Moraira, they are followed by the British and the Belgians; in Benitatxell, by the Germans and the Belgians; while in Benissa, the second position belongs to the Belgians and the third to the Germans. The data thus reflects the prominence of the Netherlands in this part of the Costa Blanca, ahead of markets traditionally linked to the area such as the United Kingdom or Germany.
