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Vega Baja leads Alicante's property boom with 2,000 new homes built in just three months
Torrevieja alone has already surpassed its entire 2025 total for new housing construction
The Vega Baja, which includes Torrevieja, Orihuela Costa, Guardamar and other Costa Blanca hotspots, is powering Alicante province’s latest property boom, with almost 2,000 new homes starting construction in the first three months of 2026 alone.
According to figures released by the Official College of Technical Architecture of Alicante (COATA), the region recorded 1,972 housing starts between January and March, making it by far the strongest-performing area in the province.
The numbers represent a massive 115% increase compared to the same period last year and have helped push Alicante province to one of its best construction quarters since before the financial crash of 2008.
At the centre of the surge is Torrevieja, where cranes and construction crews are once again becoming a familiar sight across large parts of the city.
The municipality recorded an astonishing 1,281 housing starts in just three months, already surpassing the total number registered during the whole of 2025. To put that into perspective, Torrevieja finished 2025 with 1,148 new housing starts and was already considered one of the province’s busiest construction hotspots.
San Miguel de Salinas is also seeing major growth, with 320 homes started during the quarter, while Guardamar del Segura added another 145.
The boom in the Vega Baja has been so strong that Alicante province as a whole reached 3,418 housing starts during the first quarter of the year, up more than 25% compared to early 2025 and marking the second-best quarterly result since the property market collapse nearly two decades ago.
Cristina Bordera, president of COAT Alicante, said the Vega Baja is clearly dominating the province’s construction activity.
“The Vega Baja is predominant, with the majority of housing starts and municipalities with high figures,” she explained.
Over the last 12 months alone, almost 5,000 homes have now been started across the Vega Baja, underlining the area’s continued appeal to both Spanish buyers and foreign investors.
The area’s popularity is being driven by a combination of factors, including strong demand for new-build properties, international buyers looking for homes on the Costa Blanca and ongoing investment in residential developments.
However, despite the impressive figures, there are definitely signs that the market could be beginning to cool slightly elsewhere in the province.
Areas including Elche and parts of inland Alicante have seen construction activity slow down in recent months, while industry experts are also warning about possible market saturation following such rapid growth.
COAT Alicante says activity appeared to soften slightly towards the end of March and early April amid growing international economic uncertainty, although the Vega Baja continues to stand out as one of Spain’s busiest areas for new housing development.
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