Moncloa-Aravaca

Four zones in the north-west arc

According to the City Council, Moncloa-Aravaca spreads across the broad north-western arc of the city, around the A Coruña road, and has four distinct zones: the old core of Aravaca, the Casa de Campo with the Manzanares riverside, the Ciudad Universitaria with Argüelles, and the Aravaca–El Plantío residential axis.

Crown land

Its development was shaped by the segregation and urbanisation of Crown or Patrimonio Nacional land. Until 1920 most of it was wooded hillside with the small rural core of Aravaca; around 1920 the land for the Ciudad Universitaria was split off, and from 1940 colonies of single-family houses such as Valdeconejos and Belmonte appeared.

Annexation and mass housing

The municipality of Aravaca was annexed to Madrid by a Decree of 28 October 1949. From 1970 mass-housing projects such as Ciudad de los Poetas, Valdezarza and Francos Rodríguez were carried out on the edges of Tetuán. Its seven neighbourhoods are Casa de Campo, Argüelles, Ciudad Universitaria, Valdezarza, Valdemarín, El Plantío and Aravaca.

What it means for buyers and sellers

• In July 2026 it is the 8th most expensive of Madrid's 21 districts by median closing price.
• It brings together very different areas, from the university district to Aravaca's residential colonies: compare homes in the same neighbourhood and of the same type.

Source for the historical context: Madrid City Council (Moncloa-Aravaca district page).

Data and statistics

Moncloa-Aravaca is a district of Madrid. It is made up of 7 neighbourhoods: Argüelles, Casa de Campo, Ciudad Universitaria, Aravaca, Valdezarza, Valdemarín and El Plantío. According to the City of Madrid, it covers 4,658.69 hectares and had 126,257 inhabitants on 1 January 2026.

In July 2026, the median price of completed sales in the Moncloa-Aravaca district was €6,250/m². Since January (€5,677/m²), the figure rose in 3 months and fell in 3 of the 6 that can be compared: the path is uneven.

July is the highest of the 2026 figures published (€6,250/m²); the lowest is June (€5,655/m²).

The report publishes a year-on-year change of +16.5% and a year-to-date change of +10.1%, with €5,363/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.