Property in Benijófar — a small village on the Segura

Benijófar is one compact settlement rather than a scatter of separate urbanisations: everything sits a few minutes' walk from the Plaza de la Constitución and the Iglesia de Santiago Apóstol. The narrow old streets around the church give way quickly to newer low-rise residential streets of bungalows, terraced townhouses and small apartment blocks. There is no promenade, no marina and no tourist strip.

The main street has a Mercadona, two bank branches, pharmacies, and bars and restaurants run by Chinese, Indian, Dutch and British owners alongside Spanish ones. On Tuesday mornings, eight until two, a street market runs behind the church on Calle Vicente Blasco Ibáñez — five to ten stalls depending on the season. Bigger shopping means Rojales or Torrevieja. There is a lot of green space for the size: the 125,000 m² Cañada Marsá park with its artificial lake and waterfowl, the smaller El Secano recreation area, and a riverside path through the huerta orchards to the old water wheel.

One point about boundaries, because listings get this wrong constantly. Benijófar's built-up area runs straight into Rojales's. Ciudad Quesada — the large, heavily British urbanisation many buyers picture when they think of this stretch — is part of Rojales, not Benijófar, and sits about 6 kilometres from the sea itself.

Just over half of the roughly 3,500 registered residents (INE, 2024) are foreign nationals: in 2022, 1,752 of 3,427 residents had been born abroad — 51.1% — of whom 880 were British. An analysis published in July 2026 placed Benijófar among the fifteen or so municipalities in the whole Comunitat Valenciana where foreigners outnumber Spaniards; all fifteen are in Alicante province, led by neighbouring Rojales at 68.1%.

The town hall's own framing is that prices are pushing young Spanish residents out of the village. That produced a 2025–26 scheme handing under-40s free building plots on a 75-year lease; presenting it, mayor Luis Rodríguez noted that houses across the street sell for €350,000.

What sells here is mostly 2–4 bedroom terraced and semi-detached houses (adosado, pareado), 2–3 bedroom apartments of roughly 60–90 m², and villas on larger plots, which 2025 news reports put at up to €700,000.

This is not a cheap market. RealAdvisor recorded an average of €2,586/m² in July 2026; Trovimap put it at €3,492/m² in June 2026. The gap is more than a third, so neither figure should be treated as settled. The direction is the same in both: RealAdvisor measured roughly 20% growth for houses over a year and 71–89% over five, and Trovimap ranked Benijófar 13th most expensive of the province's 141 municipalities. Being inland does not automatically buy a discount on the coastal towns here.

Short-term letting runs under Decreto-ley 9/2024, in force since 8 August 2024: the property must be registered as a tourist dwelling (VT), and it may be let to the same guest for a maximum of 10 consecutive days.