Pozuelo de Alarcón

Pozuelo de Aravaca, until 1632

According to the Town Council, the name Pozuelo first appears in 1208, when Alfonso VIII set the boundaries of Segovia with Toledo, Madrid and Alamín. It lay in the sexmo of Aravaca, so it was known as Pozuelo de Aravaca, until in 1632 Gabriel Ocaña de Alarcón acquired the municipality, it passed to seigniorial jurisdiction and he required the name to be changed to Pozuelo de Alarcón.

The Court's summer retreat

In the 18th century the minister Campomanes spent his summers in Pozuelo, and under his patronage four bridges were built over the Pozuelo stream. In 1861 the Compañía de Caminos de Hierro del Norte de España set up the railway line, which increased the arrival of summer visitors; the Colonia de San José was founded in 1914 and in 1926 the Colonia de los Ángeles and the Colonia de la Cabaña were created.

From village to city

The village was practically razed by the end of the Civil War, after episodes such as the so-called "Battle of the Fog". The population grew from the 1950s through immigration, and from the 1970s Pozuelo began to turn from a village into a city.

What it means for buyers and sellers

• In July 2026 it is the 5th 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: Pozuelo de Alarcón Town Council (history).

Data and statistics

Pozuelo de Alarcón is a municipality in the Community of Madrid. According to the Community of Madrid's statistical tables, it covers 43.13 km² and lies 18.1 km by road from the capital. The INE's official population figures give 89,770 registered inhabitants for 2025.

In July 2026, the median price of completed sales in the municipality of Pozuelo de Alarcón was €4,530/m². Since January (€4,488/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 (€5,267/m²) and the lowest, January (€4,488/m²).

The report publishes a year-on-year change of +1.9% and a year-to-date change of +0.9%, with €4,444/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 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.