Torrevieja
A town right on the sea, with two protected salt lagoons inland. Almost half of the residents do not hold Spanish nationality, and in 2025 nearly as many home purchases were signed before a notary here as in the provincial capital.
Source: INE, Censo Anual de Población 2025 · accessed 2 November 2026
Torrevieja lies in the south of the Costa Blanca, in the province of Alicante. For long stretches the coast here is built up: buildings reach down to the water, and rocky sections like the one in the picture above alternate with sandy beaches.
Two salt lagoons inland
Inland lie two lagoons, the Torrevieja lagoon and the La Mata lagoon. Together they form the Parque Natural de las Lagunas de la Mata y Torrevieja, which takes in parts of the municipalities of Torrevieja, Guardamar del Segura, Los Montesinos and Rojales. Salt has been worked in the lagoons for centuries. The Torrevieja lagoon has a pink sheen, strongest in the warm months.
If you are looking near the lagoons, find out before you buy what the protection of the natural park means for the plot and its surroundings.
Who lives here
The census of 1 January 2025 counts 100,470 residents in Torrevieja. 49,699 of them do not hold Spanish nationality, which is 49.5 per cent, just under half.
The largest groups are Ukrainians (8,191), Russians (5,343), Colombians (4,859) and Britons (4,383), followed by Moroccans (2,819). Smaller groups come from the rest of Europe, among them 1,521 Swedes, 1,402 Belgians, 1,028 Germans, 979 Poles and 502 Dutch.
For the same date the municipal register gives an official 98,533 residents, 3.9 per cent more than a year earlier. We use the census because it gives both the total and the breakdown by nationality from the same survey.
Both counts include registered residents only. Anyone who owns a second home in Torrevieja without being registered here does not appear in them. The figures describe the municipality, not the market.
The market in the town and the province
In 2025 notaries signed 6,902 residential purchases in Torrevieja, barely fewer than the 7,005 in the provincial capital, Alicante (statistics of Spain’s housing ministry). For the province of Alicante as a whole, the land registries recorded 53,385 purchases in the same year. 43.3 per cent of them went to foreign buyers, the highest share of any Spanish province. Notarial and land-registry figures come from different counts and cannot be set against each other.
Before you sign
If you buy on a development, you become a member of the owners’ community. Community fees, special levies already agreed and the minutes of the last meetings should therefore be on the table before you sign, together with the Nota Simple showing the owner, any charges and the registered floor area. We check both for the specific property.
Current properties in Torrevieja
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
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Population figures are official, from the INE. Market observations are our own and are not statistics.