Plots in Salamanca - buy, sell or rent easily

Where to buy land in Salamanca

The price of urban land in Salamanca is below the average for Castilla y León. The most valuable urban plots for sale are found in various towns, such as Ciudad Rodrigo, Buenavista, Arabayona de Mógica and Villares de la Reina. Building plots have prices similar to urban land because they are concentrated in the same towns and are also in high demand.

The cheapest land for sale in Salamanca is in Villar de Ciervo, Vilvestre, Villar de la Yegua, Cabrerizos, Béjar, Pedrosillo de Alba and Navalmoral de Béjar. These low prices are due to the large amount of rustic land available in the province.

A rich landscape

The province of Salamanca is in the southwest of Castilla y León. It has an area of 12,350 km² and around 330,000 inhabitants. It is a rural area of great environmental richness, known for its excellent agri-food products and its emerging industrial development.

It enjoys a continental Mediterranean climate with a strong Atlantic influence, with hot, dry summers and cold, wet winters, where La Serranía is the rainiest area.

Its territory has a great variety of landscapes, such as the dehesa wood pasture (Campo Charro), the mountains (Sierras de Gata, Francia-Quilamas and Béjar), the plain (La Armuña, Tierra de Peñaranda and part of Tierra de Alba), irrigated land (Las Villas) and the slopes of the rivers that cross it (the Duero, the Tormes, the Uces, the Huebra and the Águeda) in La Ribera and El Abadengo.

It has an extensive landscape and environmental diversity that can be seen in its protected natural spaces and parks, Biosphere Reserves, and special protection areas for birds. The Natural Parks of Los Arribes del Duero and Las Batuecas and Sierra de Francia stand out. Likewise, hunting activities can be carried out in the natural areas of the Sierras de Béjar and de Francia.

The value of land in Salamanca

Plots in Salamanca have some of the lowest values in the country. The average price of urban land in Salamanca is one of the lowest in Spain. In the centre of the capital, prices are somewhat higher, but there are hardly any transactions. More than half of the transactions are carried out in the smallest towns (fewer than 1,000 inhabitants).

In contrast, the price of rustic land is on an upward trend, led by irrigated land, which has the highest prices per hectare, although in Salamanca they remain below the regional average.

This increase is linked to profitability and the scarcity of land. The CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) also has an influence, as does the low turnover in the ownership of farmland.

The price of vineyards is lower than in other Castilian-Leonese provinces and depends on the training system (bush or trellis), the variety of the crop or whether it is under a Denomination of Origin.

On the other hand, the price of irrigated natural meadows in Salamanca is the highest in the Autonomous Community.

As for industrial land, there is demand in some municipalities, especially to expand the agri-food industry. The more rural towns offer plenty of land at very low, affordable prices, with very good conditions and infrastructure, and are waiting for investment and job creation to avoid depopulation.

A high-quality agricultural environment

Depopulation occurs in some rural municipalities, where the agricultural sector predominates. The production of cereals and legumes stands out, as well as the breeding of cattle, fighting bulls and Iberian pigs, mainly in the dehesa.

Due to the quality of its products, it has the Denominations of Origin for Guijuelo Ham, as well as the wines from Las Arribes del Duero and Sierra de Salamanca. It also has other products with quality labels such as lentils from La Armuña, chickpeas from Pedrosillo, cherries from the Sierra de Francia, Morucha meat, Iberian pork from Salamanca, farinato from Ciudad Rodrigo or the guarantee marks of Ternera Charra, Iberian cured meats from Salamanca and Arribes Cheese.

A renewed industrial fabric

It is in the city of Salamanca and its surroundings where the greatest commercial and industrial activity is concentrated. The agri-food industry is the most dynamic branch and creates synergies with tourism.

The Science Park of the University of Salamanca and the Technological Innovation Centre, together with start-ups, companies already established in the region and those of the traditional agri-food and manufacturing sectors, make up the industrial fabric of the province. Moreover, these institutions for the development of applied knowledge have helped new companies to set up in biotechnology and health specialities, applications and multimedia content, software and hardware production, renewable energy, environmental engineering, business consulting and language training, among others.

To this must be added the infrastructure created for logistics management: the Ciudad del Transporte (transport hub). This space manages traffic with origin and destination in the Portuguese ports of Aveiro and Oporto-Leixões.

An energy-producing province

Salamanca has a large water reservoir capacity, such as the Almendra dam and reservoir (one of the largest in the country) or the Aldeadávila dam, which has a hydroelectric power station with the largest production capacity in Spain. Both are part of the Saltos del Duero, an outstanding hydroelectric centre on the peninsula.

It also has solar power plants and a nuclear fuel factory (ENUSA) that supplies uranium to all the nuclear power plants in Spain.

In summary, the province of Salamanca, a largely rural area, stands out for the quality of its agri-food industry. This land offers opportunities for investing in land (of any kind), since its average cost is below the average for Castilla y León. Conditions are very favourable for developing new projects that help maintain or increase the population and create wealth.