Moratalaz

A pasture turned into a planned town

According to the City Council, the Moratalaz area was once a single property, the Moratalaz pasture. A single development company built it in a planned, unified way, and the result is what the municipal text describes as a "dormitory town", grown in leaps, which left empty spaces between it and Vicálvaro.

Filling the gaps

Over time those spaces were filled with housing of ever higher level. The district split from the former Moratalaz-Vicálvaro district in the 1987 restructuring.

Six neighbourhoods and a June festival

Its neighbourhoods are Pavones, Horcajo, Marroquina, Media Legua, Fontarrón and Vinateros, and its festival takes place in the second week of June.

What it means for buyers and sellers

• In July 2026 it is the 14th most expensive of Madrid's 21 districts by median closing price.
• It is a district of unified development with neighbourhoods from different periods: compare homes in the same neighbourhood and of the same type.

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

Data and statistics

Moratalaz is a district of Madrid. It is made up of 6 neighbourhoods: Pavones, Fontarrón, Vinateros, Media Legua, Horcajo and Marroquina. According to the City of Madrid, it covers 610.32 hectares and had 94,405 inhabitants on 1 January 2026.

In July 2026, the median price of completed sales in the Moratalaz district was €4,173/m². Since January (€3,982/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 April (€4,271/m²) and the lowest, January (€3,982/m²).

The report publishes a year-on-year change of +11.8% and a year-to-date change of +4.8%, with €3,731/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 municipality of Madrid (€4,757/m²); is above 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: 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.