Benissa
One municipality, two halves: the town inland and the coast with its coves between Calpe and Moraira. Buying here starts with choosing between them.
Source: INE, Censo Anual de Población 2025 · accessed 2 November 2026
When a listing says Benissa, it may mean a house in the town or one on the coast. Both belong to the same municipality and the same town hall, and yet they are two very different places to live.
Town and coast
The town lies inland. The town hall is here, and so is the everyday life of the municipality. The coast, Benissa Costa, runs between Calpe and Moraira and is a different landscape: rocky stretches with small coves between them, such as Cala de la Fustera, and residential areas with houses on the slopes above. Anyone searching here therefore chooses one of the two halves first and a house second.
Who lives here
The census of Spain’s statistics office, the INE, counted 12,524 residents on 1 January 2025, 4,941 of them foreign nationals, close to four in ten. The British are the largest group (923), followed by Colombians (712), Germans (619), the Dutch (443), Belgians (319) and Romanians (312).
Only registered residents are counted. Anyone who holds Spanish nationality alongside another counts as Spanish, and owners of second homes who are not registered here do not appear. The figures describe the municipality, not the market.
What the sales figures say
In the province of Alicante, the land registries recorded 53,385 home purchases in 2025. Of these, 43.29 per cent were made by foreign buyers, the highest share of any Spanish province.
For Benissa itself there is a figure from a different source: according to the notaries’ statistics, 316 homes were bought here in 2025, just over six a week. In Calpe the figure was 1,037; in Teulada, the municipality that Moraira belongs to, it was 554. Notarial and land-registry figures are compiled differently and cannot be set against each other.
What this means for a buyer
Benissa is a smaller market than either of its neighbours. If you have one particular cove or hillside in mind, patience will serve you better than haste.
On the coast, Benissa borders Calpe and Teulada. Which town hall is responsible for a house is stated in the Nota Simple, not in the place name on the listing.
Current properties in Benissa
On holiday letting
In the Valencian Community this is decided by the individual property, not by the town alone: it needs a favourable report from the municipality on its compatibility with planning rules and an entry in the Registro de Turismo de la Comunitat Valenciana. Since April 2025, where there is an owners’ community, a new holiday let also needs that community’s express approval. We check this for the specific property before anything is signed. A listing that says letting is “possible” is not a registration.
Guide to holiday lettingSee new properties first
Buying on the Costa Blanca rarely takes just a few weeks. Tell us what you are looking for — we get in touch when something fitting comes up, and no more often than that.
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Population figures are official, from the INE. Market observations are our own and are not statistics.