The last 'brick oases': these are the cheapest municipalities to buy a home

Finding affordable housing isn't easy after nearly three years of home-buying fervor.

Resale prices soared 5% in 2022 and in some places reached all-time highs, yet there are still little

of brick where the cost of buying a home seems more contained, especially in communities of Castile-La Mancha and Andalusia.

The cheapest municipality in Spain is in the province of Toledo, according to a ranking published on Tuesday by the Idealista real estate portal.

This is

, where the owners ask for an average of 284 euros per square meter, the cheapest price in the country according to the closing data for December 2022. They are followed by Belmez (352 euros) and Fuente Obejuna (352 euros), in addition to Villafranca del Cid in Castellón (353 euros) and Puerto Serrano in Cádiz (365 euros).

Below 400 euros per square meter are also Almadén, in Ciudad Real (370 euros), El Carpio de Tajo in Toledo (383 euros) and Malagón in Ciudad Real (398 euros).

Locating second-hand homes for less than 450 euros

per square meter is difficult at a time when the market is digesting the

that unleashed the coronavirus pandemic.

Prices in cities such as Madrid or Barcelona stand at

respectively, as a result of a diminishing supply in the face of a demand that does not stop growing.

In this context, cases such as Castillo de Locubín in Jaén (414 euros per square meter), Campo de Criptana in Ciudad Real (414 euros), Pedro Muñoz also in Ciudad Real (416 euros), La Villa de Don Fadrique in Toledo (420 euros), Colomera in Granada (422 euros) or Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo in Córdoba (429 euros/m2), which do not reach 450 euros, are almost utopian.

In the same situation are Calzada de Calatrava, in Ciudad Real (434 euros), Villacañas, in Toledo (437 euros), Corral de Almaguer, also in Toledo (441 euros), Bembibre, in León (442 euros), Bullas, in Murcia and La Pobla Llarga, in Valencia, where 443 euros are paid per square meter of used housing.

The ranking prepared by Idealista continues with the municipality of

in Huelva (454 euros), Algueña, in Alicante (455 euros), Villanueva de los Infantes, in Ciudad Real (456 euros), Tobarra, in Albacete ( 456 euros), Escalonilla, in Toledo (457 euros), Macael, in Almería (458 euros) and Horcajo de Santiago, in Cuenca (463 euros).

In addition to the communities with municipalities in the top 25 positions, two more autonomies have a market below 500 euros:

, where the cheapest municipality is Linyola, with 470 euros per square meter, and

, with Gallur (Zaragoza) and its 499 euros.

In the cheapest town in Extremadura, Castuera (Badajoz), the owners ask an average of 523 euros per square meter;

followed by the Orense municipality of Vilamarín (540 euros);

the Asturian San Martín del Rey Aurelio (556 euros);

Agoncillo from La Rioja (654 euros);

Campoo de Enmedio from Cantabria (656 euros) and Tielmes from Madrid (746 euros).

The most expensive community is the Balearic Islands, where its cheapest municipality (María de la Salud) has an average price of 1,199 euros per square meter, followed by Oión in Álava, as the cheapest in the Basque Country, with 997 euros;

Tank, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (931 euros) and Castejón, in Navarra (782 euros).

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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