Investing in Benissa: 6 €/m²/month in rent and 2.7% gross yield
Buying in Benissa costs 2,609 €/m² on average and renting goes for 6 €/m² a month, leaving a gross yield of 2.7% before costs and taxes. It sits well below the Spanish average (4.2%), with purchase prices above the Spanish average.
Benissa within Alicante/Alacant
Where the municipality sits and how it compares with its neighbours.
Administrative boundaries from the Spanish National Geographic Institute (CC BY 4.0). The Canary Islands are drawn shifted, as on any map of Spain.
What the analysis sees
The specific signals the official data leaves about this market, before going into detail.
On gross yield it ranks 133 of 141 among the municipalities of its province.
Benissa has 12,471 residents, an average gross household income of €26,789 a year. These are signals of how deep housing demand runs, not of the risk of any one tenant.
In favour
- 5.8 transactions per 1,000 residentsA market with high turnover: reselling is easier than the national average.
- Net migration of 17.8‰More people arrive than leave, above the Spanish average: sustained housing demand.
- 18 properties analysedWe hold stock for sale here, each with its own investment score.
Against
- Gross yield of 2.7%Below the Spanish average (4.2%): here you buy for capital growth rather than for rent.
- 0.73 repossessions per 1,000 dwellingsRepossession pressure above the average, a provincial figure that signals market stress.
What it costs and what it earns
The market level in Benissa and what it means for a buy-to-let buyer. Per-m² figures are converted to a reference home of 90 m².
Where it stands against the rest
Benissa's percentile among the municipalities with enough data, computed on the same figure for all of them.
Within Alicante/Alacant it ranks 133 of 141 on gross yield.
Demand, employment and liquidity
The structural depth of the market: how many people live here, what they earn, how much changes hands and what stress it carries. This is market context, never a measure of tenant risk.
Repossessions are a provincial figure (INE): they describe the market in Alicante/Alacant, not this municipality alone.
Municipal costs and taxes
What the town hall and the cadastre set for this municipality, which is what the owner pays every year whether it is let or not.
How it has moved
Official series for Benissa over recent years. Where a series is missing, the municipality does not publish it.
Rent price index
INE · 2011 base = 100 · yearly
Housing transactions
MIVAU · deals per year
Registered unemployment
SEPE · yearly average
Average gross income
AEAT · annual tax return
Registered population
INE · yearly population register
Net international migration
INE · immigration − emigration · yearly
Alternatives in Alicante/Alacant
Territories of the same level ranked by gross yield, to compare before deciding.
What is for sale in Benissa
Our catalogue in this territory, with an investment score computed property by property.
How this page is calculated
Where each figure comes from, over which territory and from what date. Confidence measures data coverage, never investment quality.
Data coverage
90/100What this page does not show is what is not published about the municipality, not a zero.
- official rent series (SERPAVI)
- series sufficient to measure momentum
- official appraised value (MIVAU)
- estimated market level
- our own adverts
When each figure is from
This is the latest figure published by each source for this municipality.
- rent
- 2025
- sale
- 2025
- household income
- 2023
- population register
- 2025
- registered transactions
- 2026Q1
- registered unemployment
- 2026M06
An indicative statistical estimate for comparing markets, not an appraisal or an investment recommendation. Gross yield does not deduct costs, IBI, insurance, voids or taxes.