Tossa de Mar is a small municipality on the Costa Brava, in the Selva comarca of Girona province. It counts around six thousand residents, yet asking prices per square metre run well above far larger resorts such as Lloret de Mar or Salou. Small and dear is the shape of the town, and most of its housing is not lived in year round: the 2021 census found only about a third of homes were principal residences.
The annual census put the population at 6,293 on 1 January 2025; the padron, a different count, says 6,347. Foreign nationals are about a quarter of residents, a lower share than Lloret de Mar, Roses or Salou report. No single group dominates: the largest, Moroccan nationals, is about a ninth of the foreign population, followed by Colombians, Ukrainians and Italians. British, German and French residents together are fewer than two hundred.
The market is thin to read. Idealista's July 2026 index has asking prices up by about a tenth over the year, but slightly down on both the month and the quarter, just under a record set in May 2026. Only two districts carry prices, and one of them is itself called Tossa de Mar, so read district tables carefully. There is no railway station, no published hospital assignment and no weather station publishing climate normals; this guide says so rather than borrowing figures.
The verdict
The upside is real. So is the downside. Both matter more than any brochure will admit.
Low density for a coastal resort municipality
The municipality covers 38.58 square kilometres at about 163 people per square kilometre, far below Lloret de Mar at roughly 861 or Salou at more than two thousand, on IDESCAT's 2025 figures.
Schooling in town through to Batxillerat
Generalitat open data for 2025 to 2026 records three centres covering nursery, infant, primary, compulsory secondary and Batxillerat, with around 240 primary pupils and 67 in Batxillerat, so a family need not leave the municipality for school.
A broad foreign mix, no dominant nationality
The largest foreign group, Moroccan nationals, is about a ninth of foreign residents, with Colombians, Ukrainians, Italians and Gambians following, on the 2025 census. Contrast Roses, where a single nationality is more than a third of the foreign population.
Asking prices rose about a tenth in a year
Idealista's July 2026 index puts growth at about a tenth year on year, in line with Girona province as a whole, and the municipal series set its record as recently as May 2026.
One combined ticket covers train and bus
Rodalies sells a combined ticket pairing the train with a Coaches Pujol bus onward from the Blanes rail leg to Lloret de Mar and Tossa de Mar, an operator published route rather than an informal connection.
No railway station in the municipality
Adif's own station finder returns no station for Tossa de Mar. Rodalies' published offer is the combined ticket, whose train leg ends in Blanes, a different municipality, with a bus onward. No journey time or frequency is published on that page.
No published hospital assignment for residents
Tossa de Mar sits in ABS 142, an area named for Lloret de Mar, within the Girona health region, but no source publishes which hospital serves it, so we name none rather than guess.
Second homes outnumber lived-in homes heavily
The 2021 census counted 7,105 homes but only 2,520 principal residences, about a third. Hotel places alone, 7,562 in 2025, exceed the resident population, so expect a town that empties outside season.
Buying close to a record high price
Idealista's municipal series peaked in May 2026 and July 2026 sits just below it, with monthly and quarterly readings slightly negative. A buyer today pays close to the highest asking prices ever recorded here.
Thin, confusing district level price data
Only two districts carry prices, and one is itself called Tossa de Mar, easily misread as the municipality figure. La Pola i Giverola-Salionç is listed without a price. Comparing neighbourhoods from published data is barely possible.
Editor's note
Tossa de Mar suits a buyer who wants a small town at a high price and accepts the trade: no railway station, no published hospital assignment, district price data too thin to compare neighbourhoods, and a housing stock in which principal residences are about a third. If those terms do not suit, there are real alternatives on the Catalan coast. If rail access matters, Sitges has a station with Rodalies services on Adif's own departure board, and Salou opened its station in June 2025. For the same province at a lower entry price, Lloret de Mar asks materially less per square metre and prices twelve districts against Tossa de Mar's two, though it is a far larger town with a much higher foreign share. Roses sits at a similar price level with six priced districts and a basic health area carrying its own name. A buyer drawn to canals should look at Empuriabrava, with seventeen districts listed. None is a like for like swap; Tossa de Mar's scarcity is the point, and its price says so.
Updated 2026-08-31
Where to live and what to expect at each price point.
Dearer of the two priced districts, an eighth or so above the municipal figure per square metre. It rose over the year to July 2026 at somewhat above the town's own pace.
The second Tossa de Mar row in Idealista's July 2026 table, listed below the municipality row and priced separately from it. The cheaper of the two priced districts, it sits under the municipal figure per square metre and rose at about half the town's pace.
Honest answers to the questions buyers actually ask.
Transfer tax rates as of August 2026. Rates are set per autonomous community and do change. Confirm the current figures with a Spanish lawyer or tax adviser before you budget.
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