
The Ultimate Buyer's Guide to Buying Property on the Costa Blanca
More than 200 kilometres of Spain's Mediterranean coast, from Dénia in the north to Pilar de la Horadada in the south — town by town, for every type of buyer.

Orihuela Costa
Il mercato immobiliare di Orihuela Costa, le spiagge pluripremiate e lo stile di vita mediterraneo attraverso approfondimenti di esperti locali e una selezione accurata di abitazioni.
Orihuela Costa è una delle destinazioni residenziali più popolari della Costa Blanca meridionale, rinomata per le sue spiagge Bandiera Blu, i campi da golf da campionato e la vivace comunità internazionale. Estendendosi da Punta Prima a Campoamor, la costa offre un mercato immobiliare diversificato, che spazia da appartamenti moderni e case a schiera a ville di lusso con vista sul Mediterraneo. Gli eccellenti servizi, lo stile di vita durante tutto l'anno e il forte potenziale d'investimento continuano ad attrarre residenti permanenti, acquirenti di case vacanza e investitori stranieri da tutta Europa.
Orihuela retained 10 Blue Flags for beaches in 2026 plus one for the Club Náutico Dehesa de Campoamor marina, making it the leading municipality in Alicante province for these awards that year: Calas de Aguamarina, Barranco Rubio, Cabo Roig-La Caleta, Cala Capitán, Cala Cerrada, Cala Estaca, Campoamor-La Glea, La Zenia-Cala Bosque, Mil Palmeras and Punta Prima. Cabo Roig's own coastline is built around two named coves either side of the cape: La Caleta (387m long, sheltered by the cape's rock walls) to the south, and Cala Capitán (152m) to the north, linked by a roughly 2km cliff-top walkway that takes about 25 minutes on foot; Aguamarina cove sits further along, between Cabo Roig and Campoamor. Punta Prima, bordering Torrevieja to the north, also holds Blue Flag status but is covered in this project's Torrevieja pack rather than duplicated here.
Inland from Dehesa de Campoamor, the Sierra Escalona y Dehesa de Campoamor Protected Landscape covers 10,683.76 hectares across the municipalities of Orihuela, San Miguel de Salinas and Pilar de la Horadada, declared for its ecological and scenic value and also recognised as a Special Bird Protection Area (ZEPA, 10,458.76ha) and Site of Community Importance (LIC, 4,782ha).
The Cabo Roig strip is Orihuela Costa's dining and nightlife spine — a dense run of restaurants along the N-332 offering an international mix (Chinese, Indian, Italian, Irish and Mediterranean/Spanish) alongside Irish and Australian-style pubs, plus Sala Passion in nearby Villamartín Plaza for later-night entertainment. No Michelin-recognised restaurant was found listed for Orihuela Costa, Cabo Roig, Campoamor or Playa Flamenca as of this check — buyers wanting starred dining currently need to look further afield on the Costa Blanca (see the North region packs for Jávea and La Nucía). The everyday scene here trades genuine breadth and volume for that Michelin tier.
Golf is Orihuela Costa's headline leisure asset. Villamartín Golf (opened 1972, 18 holes) is the area's oldest and most established course; Las Ramblas Golf (opened 1990, designed by Pepe Gancedo) is built across steep, ravine-cut terrain and is generally regarded as the most technically demanding of the group; Real Club de Golf Campoamor (opened 1998, 18 holes, 6,277m) sits sheltered between two valleys and plays year-round. Las Colinas Golf & Country Club is the newest and most exclusive of the four: a 330-hectare, low-density gated resort with 24-hour security, its villas and apartments arranged in small private gated sub-communities around a Cabell B. Robinson-designed championship course. Real-estate and course-ranking sources describe Las Colinas as having won "Spain's Best Golf Course" at the World Golf Awards multiple times and "Leading Villa Resort" honours at the World Travel Awards — but the exact years cited are genuinely inconsistent across sources (2015/2016/2017 per one contemporary report; 2015/2016/2017/2018/2019 per another; 2015/2016/2020/2021 per a third). Zenia Boulevard, the open-air shopping and leisure centre in La Zenia, is widely described across local tourism and real-estate sources as "the largest shopping centre in the province of Alicante," with a footprint cited at 160,000–161,000m² and around 150 shops and restaurants. On the water, Club Náutico Dehesa de Campoamor (founded early 1970s, around 350 berths) held its Blue Flag marina award in 2026, and the smaller Club Náutico Cabo Roig offers full harbour services from its dock beneath the cape's watchtower.
Life here centres on the golf courses' fairways, the Cabo Roig cliff-top promenade out to the Faro de Cabo Roig lighthouse, and the marinas at Campoamor and Cabo Roig. Using the nearest AEMET station with published normals (Alicante, 1981–2010 period) as a regional proxy — the same caveat applies here as for other Costa Blanca packs, since this is not an Orihuela Costa-specific reading — the average annual temperature is 18.3°C, ranging from an 11.7°C January average to 26.0°C in August, with roughly 2,851 hours of sunshine a year. That climate, combined with the area's low-density gated golf communities, is the basis of outdoor living here: pool terraces, golf-course frontage and coastal walking rather than an old-town or harbour-town lifestyle.

Orihuela Costa rimane uno dei mercati residenziali più dinamici della Costa Blanca, sostenuto da una forte domanda nazionale e internazionale. Nel 2026, i prezzi medi richiesti si attestano a circa €3,150/m², riflettendo la continua crescita sia nel settore della rivendita sia in quello delle nuove costruzioni. La domanda rimane particolarmente forte per gli sviluppi moderni vicino alla costa e ai resort con campi da golf, dove l'offerta limitata ha contribuito a sostenere l'apprezzamento dei prezzi a lungo termine.
Il comune comprende un'ampia varietà di aree residenziali consolidate. I quartieri costieri come Cabo Roig, Campoamor, La Zenia e Punta Prima presentano alcuni dei valori immobiliari più elevati, grazie alle loro spiagge, ai porti turistici e alla vicinanza a ristoranti e strutture per il tempo libero. Le comunità dell'entroterra, tra cui Villamartín, Las Ramblas e Las Colinas Golf & Country Club, continuano ad attrarre acquirenti alla ricerca di abitazioni contemporanee in prestigiosi resort con campi da golf.
Gli appartamenti e le case a schiera rappresentano una parte significativa del patrimonio abitativo, in particolare all'interno di moderni complessi residenziali recintati che offrono piscine, giardini paesaggistici e strutture per il tempo libero. Le ville indipendenti rimangono molto richieste, soprattutto nei quartieri costieri consolidati, dove i lotti più ampi e le viste sul mare raggiungono prezzi premium. Le abitazioni di lusso all'interno di Las Colinas Golf & Country Club e Campoamor raggiungono costantemente alcuni dei valori più elevati del comune.
La domanda internazionale continua a definire il mercato, con acquirenti provenienti da Regno Unito, Belgio, Paesi Bassi, Germania, Svezia, Norvegia e Irlanda che rappresentano una quota significativa delle transazioni. Gli eccellenti collegamenti di trasporto, compreso il facile accesso agli aeroporti di Alicante e Murcia, insieme ai servizi disponibili durante tutto l'anno e a oltre 300 giorni di sole ogni anno, continuano a sostenere la popolarità di Orihuela Costa tra gli acquirenti alla ricerca di uno stile di vita migliore e gli investitori immobiliari.
| Type | Average | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| apartments | EUR 3,250/m² | +10.4% |
| houses | EUR 2,950/m² | +10.4% |
| villas | EUR 3,850/m² | +10.4% |
No, and this is a common point of confusion. Orihuela Costa is the coastal urbanisation belt — Villamartín, Cabo Roig, La Zenia, Playa Flamenca and Dehesa de Campoamor among its areas — that forms part of the much larger municipality of Orihuela. Orihuela city, the historic inland centre with its Baroque old quarter, sits roughly 20km away in a straight line (around 30km/28-32 minutes by road). Buyers researching "Orihuela" online should check carefully which of the two they're looking at.
It refers to the cluster of golf courses inland of Cabo Roig and Campoamor: the long-established Villamartín (1972) and Las Ramblas (1990) courses, Real Club de Golf Campoamor (1998), and the newer, more exclusive Las Colinas Golf & Country Club — a low-density, gated resort currently ranked 17th in Spain by Top100GolfCourses.com. Sources vary on which three of the four make up the "triangle" label itself, but together they're the area's premium, golf-anchored property segment.
It varies sharply by source and by segment. Town-wide average asking prices range from roughly €2,900/m² to €3,600/m² depending on the index used (Idealista, an aggregator snapshot, and Fotocasa disagree), which is meaningfully below Costa Blanca North's Jávea/Moraira band of €3,300–4,600/m². Gated golf-resort villas, particularly at Las Colinas, run well above the area average — from the mid-€100,000s up to €1–2 million for larger plots — so the "expensive" answer depends heavily on which segment a buyer means.
That's the claim made consistently across local tourism and real-estate sources, with a footprint cited at 160,000m²+ and around 150 shops. It hasn't been independently verified against a retail-industry ranking for this draft, and sources disagree on whether that figure represents total site area or leasable retail space — so treat it as the well-established local claim rather than an audited industry fact.
Depends on priority. Cabo Roig suits buyers wanting a walkable dining/nightlife strip and clifftop coves; La Zenia suits those wanting Zenia Boulevard and beach access on the doorstep; Campoamor and Villamartín suit golf-focused buyers wanting course frontage and, in Villamartín's case, one of the area's more established, amenity-rich urbanisations.
Yes — the two are adjacent, meeting around Punta Prima, roughly 5-8km from Torrevieja depending on the exact point measured. Punta Prima itself, while technically part of Orihuela Costa, is covered in this project's Torrevieja region pack rather than here, given its border position.
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