Leganés

A hamlet that moved to higher ground

According to the Town Council, before Leganés there were settlements in the hamlets of Butarque and San Juan de Overa, La Torrecilla and the hillocks of the La Mora estate and Polvoranca. Around 1280 the villagers moved to a higher, cleaner, airier spot near water because of disease, and a first farmstead was built there. The first documents on the hamlet of Legamar date from the 13th century.

Marquesses, artists and a barracks

From 1680 the Guzmán family ran the town as Marquesses of Leganés, related to the Count-Duke of Olivares. Juan de Austria lived in the town, José Benito de Churriguera made altarpieces in the church of El Salvador, and Sabatini and Hermosilla built the Walloon Guards' barracks, now Universidad Carlos III. Isabella II ordered the Casa de Salud de Santa Isabel built.

Immigration in the sixties and seventies

The Saboya barracks operated until the 1990s. In the 1960s and 70s thousands of immigrants arrived from Andalusia, Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla y León, and today Leganés has almost 200,000 residents.

What it means for buyers and sellers

• In July 2026 it is the 14th of the 32 municipalities analysed by median closing price.
• It is a municipal median: compare homes in the same neighbourhood and of the same type.

Source for the historical context: Leganés Town Council (history of Leganés).

Data and statistics

Leganés is a municipality in the Community of Madrid. According to the Community of Madrid's statistical tables, it covers 43.26 km² and lies 16.8 km by road from the capital. The INE's official population figures give 195,734 registered inhabitants for 2025.

In July 2026, the median price of completed sales in the municipality of Leganés was €3,230/m². Since January (€2,996/m²), the figure rose in 4 of the 6 months that can be compared with the previous one, without a steady climb.

Among the 2026 figures published, the highest is June (€3,365/m²) and the lowest, January (€2,996/m²).

The report publishes a year-on-year change of +14.2% and a year-to-date change of +7.8%, with €2,829/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 below the one published 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: Community of Madrid and National Statistics Institute (INE) (land area of the municipalities (Regional Geographic Information Centre, Community of Madrid); road distance to the capital (Directorate-General for Economy and Industry, Community of Madrid); official population figures, Madrid: population by municipality and sex (INE)), 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.