Ciudad Lineal

A utopia from 1892

According to the City Council, in 1892 Arturo Soria y Mata published the "Linear City Project around Madrid": a city that would ring the capital outside its municipal boundary and link it with the towns that were added in 1948–49, such as Canillas, Hortaleza and Chamartín. In 1894 the Compañía Madrileña de Urbanización was formed to build it.

A project left half-built

The company had a short life: it was dissolved for lack of funds when only the first section, between the Aragón road and Chamartín de la Rosa, had been finished. After the failure of official planning, the district grew as a privileged suburb of Madrid, mixing utopia and realism; some villas still survive between Avenida de América and the Aragón road.

Nine neighbourhoods and recent architecture

The Council cites the Eduardo Torroja Institute, the Club de Stella and the single-family houses built by the architects Coderch and Valls in 1958. Its neighbourhoods are Ventas, Pueblo Nuevo, Quintana, La Concepción, San Pascual, San Juan Bautista, Colina, Atalaya and Costillares.

What it means for buyers and sellers

• In July 2026 it is the 11th most expensive of Madrid's 21 districts by median closing price.
• The district's neighbourhoods differ from one another: compare homes in the same neighbourhood and of the same type, not the district average.

Source for the historical context: Madrid City Council (Ciudad Lineal district page).

Data and statistics

Ciudad Lineal is a district of Madrid. It is made up of 9 neighbourhoods: Pueblo Nuevo, Ventas, Quintana, La Concepción, San Pascual, San Juan Bautista, Colina, Atalaya and Costillares. According to the City of Madrid, it covers 1,142.57 hectares and had 230,334 inhabitants on 1 January 2026.

In July 2026, the median price of completed sales in the Ciudad Lineal district was €4,778/m². Since January (€4,808/m²), the figure rose in 3 months and fell in 3 of the 6 that can be compared: the path is uneven.

Among the 2026 figures published, the highest is June (€4,955/m²) and the lowest, February (€4,556/m²).

The report publishes a year-on-year change of +12.9% and a year-to-date change of -0.6%, with €4,231/m² in July 2025 as the prior-year starting point. They compare medians of different transactions in each period, not the change in value of the same home.

For reference, the July figure is above the one published for the municipality of Madrid (€4,757/m²) and for the province as a whole (€3,618/m²). These are medians for each area, not averages of the areas they contain.

This guide describes the figure for the area, not an individual home: valuing a property requires comparing similar homes. The report does not say how many transactions underlie each territorial median.

Territorial context: City of Madrid (Barrios de Madrid (Portal de datos abiertos del Ayuntamiento de Madrid); Panel de indicadores de distritos y barrios: Superficie (ha.) (Portal de datos abiertos del Ayuntamiento de Madrid); Población por distrito y barrio a 1 de enero (Portal de datos abiertos del Ayuntamiento de Madrid)), accessed 2 November 2026. Official information, separate from the Huspy statistics.

Source of the statistics: Huspy Market Insights · Madrid, October 2026 edition. Completed sales, median in €/m²; not asking or rental prices. The edition date is not the data date.