Non-resident foreign home buyers in Spain, by province

Non-resident foreigners bought 46,734 homes in Spain in the four quarters to June 2026, 16% fewer than a year earlier and 6.4% of all home purchases. Alicante alone took 16,963, 36% of the total, followed by Málaga (9,154) and Murcia (3,689). The figures come from notarial records published by Spain's housing ministry (MIVAU).

The ten provinces where non-residents buy most

1. Alicante 16,963
2. Málaga 9,154
3. Murcia 3,689
4. Balearic Islands 3,131
5. Santa Cruz de Tenerife 2,068
6. Girona 1,973
7. Las Palmas 1,766
8. Valencia 1,329
9. Almería 1,169
10. Barcelona 1,039

Every province

Province	Last 4 quartersQ3 2025 to Q2 2026	Change	Share of all purchases	2023	2024	2025
Spain	46,734	−16%	6.4%	54,917	56,777	51,367
Alicante	16,963	−13%	32.2%	19,123	20,169	18,397
Málaga	9,154	−13%	26.6%	9,719	10,500	9,749
Murcia	3,689	−12%	13.2%	3,932	4,243	3,994
Balearic Islands	3,131	−19%	21.8%	3,777	3,932	3,473
Santa Cruz de Tenerife	2,068	−21%	17.6%	2,862	2,728	2,436
Girona	1,973	−11%	12.8%	2,645	2,214	2,184
Las Palmas	1,766	−17%	12.9%	2,523	2,184	2,011
Valencia	1,329	−23%	3.2%	1,920	1,895	1,447
Almería	1,169	−19%	7.1%	1,478	1,352	1,351
Barcelona	1,039	−42%	1.4%	1,662	1,871	1,329
Tarragona	708	−17%	4.0%	856	859	757
Castellón	681	−15%	4.8%	828	904	742
Madrid	590	−50%	0.7%	999	1,226	814
Cádiz	557	+8%	3.0%	578	510	583
Granada	471	−20%	2.9%	551	602	542
Huelva	234	−10%	2.9%	228	252	239
Asturias	183	−11%	1.1%	204	210	195
Córdoba	97	−10%	0.8%	79	85	104
A Coruña	83	−31%	0.7%	106	126	94
Seville	81	−34%	0.3%	80	91	104
Pontevedra	69	−24%	0.8%	85	98	78
Jaén	68	−24%	0.7%	62	84	80
Gipuzkoa	56	+4%	0.6%	45	63	58
Ourense	54	−4%	1.5%	36	46	56
Cantabria	52	−32%	0.5%	88	86	63
Zaragoza	48	–	0.3%	44	39	50
Lleida	44	–	0.7%	48	30	42
Lugo	35	–	0.8%	25	52	33
Salamanca	33	–	0.6%	17	24	26
Cáceres	33	–	0.5%	19	16	28
Toledo	29	–	0.2%	38	25	27
Bizkaia	29	−47%	0.2%	34	49	43
Albacete	24	–	0.4%	15	12	16
La Rioja	23	–	0.4%	14	20	22
Badajoz	20	–	0.2%	18	11	26
Burgos	17	–	0.3%	14	15	19
León	16	–	0.2%	22	27	22
Huesca	15	–	0.4%	27	15	20
Navarre	15	–	0.2%	32	25	18
Palencia	12	–	0.5%	4	3	11
Valladolid	12	–	0.2%	18	8	13
Ciudad Real	12	–	0.1%	10	10	13
Zamora	9	–	0.3%	2	9	11
Cuenca	9	–	0.3%	7	6	10
Teruel	8	–	0.3%	5	9	5
Segovia	6	–	0.2%	8	5	8
Guadalajara	6	–	0.1%	9	9	10
Ávila	5	–	0.1%	5	12	4
Soria	4	–	0.3%	1	2	3
Melilla	3	–	0.4%	11	8	4
Álava	2	–	0.0%	4	5	3
Ceuta	0	–	0.0%	0	1	0

Spain, year by year

The series peaked in 2022 at 63,039 homes. In 2025 the count was 51,367, 19% lower.

Year	Non-resident foreign buyers	Share of all purchases
2025	51,367	6.8%
2024	56,777	7.9%
2023	54,917	8.6%
2022	63,039	8.8%
2021	43,791	6.5%
2020	28,991	5.9%
2019	41,515	7.3%
2018	44,924	7.7%
2017	46,412	8.7%
2016	43,244	9.4%
2015	39,590	9.9%
2014	36,438	10.0%
2013	29,496	9.8%
2012	25,041	6.9%
2011	18,382	5.3%
2010	15,283	3.1%
2009	14,124	3.0%
2008	17,747	3.1%
2007	24,489	2.9%

What these figures count

Each figure is a home purchase signed before a Spanish notary in which the buyer is a foreign national who does not live in Spain. New builds and resales are both included. Foreigners who live in Spain are counted separately, and so are Spaniards who live abroad. MIVAU, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda, compiles them from notarial records in its Estadística de Transacciones Inmobiliarias (table 1.6) and publishes them each quarter. The latest quarter is provisional and can be revised.

Other sources give other numbers because they count something else. The Land Registrars (Registradores) report purchases by all foreigners, resident or not, when the sale is registered, so their totals are larger and can move the other way: in the first half of 2026 they reported a record for foreign buyers while non-resident purchases here fell. This table has no nationality; the notaries' own statistics (Consejo General del Notariado) break buyers down by country.

The markets we cover

• Costa del Sol: 9,154 homes in Málaga province
• Costa Blanca: 16,963 homes in Alicante province
• Balearic Islands: 3,131 homes in the Balearic Islands
• Canary Islands: 3,834 homes in the Canary Islands
• Barcelona: 1,039 homes in Barcelona province
• Madrid: 590 homes in the Madrid region
• Costa Brava: 1,973 homes in Girona province
• Valencia: 1,329 homes in Valencia province

Using these figures

You may quote and reuse these figures with a link to this page: "Zenith Concierge, non-resident foreign home buyers in Spain by province, from MIVAU table 1.6, updated October 2026". We update the page each quarter, when MIVAU publishes new data. MIVAU source file (XLS).