The price of new and used housing on the Mediterranean coast continues to rise and registered an increase of 16.7% year-on-year in October 2026, according to the latest data from the IMIE General and Large Markets index of Tinsa by Accumin. The rise is three percentage points higher than the national average, which stands at 13.7%, and places the Mediterranean coast among the markets that have become more expensive in the last year.
The report shows that the Mediterranean coast maintains a higher rate of price growth than Spain as a whole, although the monthly evolution shows a more moderate increase. Specifically, the value of housing has increased by 0.5% between September and October, compared to the 0.9% recorded in the country as a whole. The Mediterranean coast thus reaches 2,635 points in the Tinsa index, which takes as a reference the value of housing in 2001, with a base of 1,000 points.
The year-on-year increase of 16.7% places the Mediterranean coast above the capitals and large cities, where the increase reaches 13.3%, and metropolitan areas, with 15.6%. It also exceeds the growth of the islands, which register 13.2%, and the rest of the municipalities, with 10.3%.
In fact, the Mediterranean coast is the territorial group that registers the highest year-on-year increase of the five analysed by Tinsa. Its evolution contrasts with the moderation experienced by the Spanish residential market as a whole, whose growth rate has fallen from 14.2% in September to 13.7% in October.
Despite the cumulative increase in prices in recent years, the value of housing on the Mediterranean coast is below the levels reached during the previous real estate cycle. According to Tinsa, current prices are 2.2% lower than the maximums recorded between 2007 and 2008, in nominal terms. The capitals and large cities already exceed those maximums by 6%, or metropolitan areas, which are 3.6% above. The difference is even greater on the islands, where current prices exceed the maximums of the previous real estate cycle by 28.1%.
In Spain as a whole, house values are 3.5% above the highs of 2007 in nominal terms. In the case of the Mediterranean coast, the index also reflects that prices have increased by 83% since the lows recorded after the real estate crisis. This cumulative growth occurs in a market that, despite its recent evolution, has not yet recovered the nominal highs of the previous cycle.
The October report points to a slowdown in residential prices in the country as a whole. The year-on-year variation has gone from 14.2% to 13.7%, although all the areas analysed maintain increases of more than 10%.
Cristina Arias, Director of Research at Tinsa by Accumin, explains that "in October residential prices have continued to consolidate their gradual slowdown", although they continue to register year-on-year rates higher than inflation in all markets.
The monthly evolution shows differences between territories. While the capitals and large cities registered an increase of 1.4%, metropolitan areas and the Mediterranean coast advanced by 0.5%, the islands by 0.3% and the rest of the municipalities by 0.9%. According to Arias, the most pronounced slowdowns, once the effect of inflation has been discounted, are observed in the islands and metropolitan areas, while the capitals and large cities maintain the intensity of their growth after the moderation experienced in August and September.
The head of Tinsa also points out that residential sales continue to moderate in the face of rising prices, supply restrictions, rising interest rates and the greater economic effort required to purchase a home.
However, operations continue to remain above the historical average, an evolution that the company relates to the growth in the population of recent years.
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