UNIC Jávea by Aedas Javea: Apartments from €380K

Quick answer: UNIC is not one purchase decision, it is four. Aedas built 223 homes here in four phases, and the first phase of 57 units has begun handing over while later phases are still under construction. A completed unit is bought at the deed with no staged-payment exposure at all; an unbuilt one is bought with two years of Ley 57/1968 guarantee paperwork in front of you. Same scheme, same brochure, entirely different transaction. Establish the phase before you discuss anything else.

Related research: the Aedas Homes developer review · Jávea market analysis · the handover checklist.

Why does the phase number matter more than the price?

Because it decides which body of law protects you. In a four-phase scheme the marketing is unified and the legal position is not.

If your unit is complete and has its licencia de primera ocupación, you are buying finished property. You inspect what exists, you pay at the notary, and the risk you carry is the ordinary one of any purchase: title, charges, community debts, defects. Nothing is owed to you by a guarantee scheme because you have advanced nothing.

If your unit is in a phase still under construction, you are lending the developer money in instalments against a promise. Spanish law responds with Ley 57/1968 protection, and that protection only works if the paperwork is executed for every single transfer. The exposure lasts until the deed.

	Completed phase-one unit	Unbuilt later-phase unit
When you pay	At the deed	In staged instalments over the build
What protects the money	Nothing needs to; you hold the asset	An individual Ley 57/1968 certificate per payment
What you inspect	The actual apartment	Plans, a show unit, a delivered neighbour
Purchase tax treatment	Depends on whether it is a first transfer	10% IVA + 1.4% AJD
Main risk	Defects, charges, community arrears	Delay, and gaps in guarantee coverage
Time to rental income	Immediate	After handover and licence

A buyer who reads a single “from” price and a single completion date has not yet found the transaction they are actually entering. The sales office will answer the phase question directly if asked directly.

What is actually built at UNIC?

The scheme totals 223 homes across the four phases, in one, two, three and four bedroom formats. Every unit is specified with a terrace, a garage space and a storage room, which removes the most common hidden extras from the Costa Blanca new-build negotiation. Three formats sit outside the standard mix: ground-floor apartments with unusually large terraces, penthouses, and duplexes.

Communal provision includes a pool, landscaped gardens, a gym and a social room. On a scheme of this size those facilities are funded by the community budget across 223 owners, which is a more comfortable ratio than the same facilities on a 40-unit block, and it is worth checking how the budget is split when phases complete at different times.

The first phase comprised 57 units and Aedas has begun handing it over. Reporting at the point of first delivery indicated only four completed units still available, priced from around €330,000, and those were duplex penthouses: three with three bedrooms and one with four. That is a specific and perishable fact rather than a general price level, which is exactly why the number in this site’s index and the number in the press differ.

Scheme fact	Position
Total homes	223
Phases	Four
First phase	57 units, handover begun
Unit mix	One to four bedrooms
Included as standard	Terrace, garage space, storage room
Special formats	Large-terrace ground floors, penthouses, duplexes
Communal areas	Pool, gardens, gym, social room
Setting	Between the old town and the port, Montgó inland, sea in front

Insider tip: on a phased scheme, ask when the community of owners is formally constituted and how charges are apportioned while later phases are still building. Early owners occasionally find themselves carrying communal running costs for facilities that the whole 223 will eventually share.

What does Jávea itself do to the investment case?

Jávea is three places wearing one name, and conflating them is the most common analytical error made about this market. The old town sits inland and is residential and Spanish in character year-round. The port is a working harbour with restaurants and a different rhythm. The Arenal is the sandy beach strip and is the most seasonal of the three. Winter occupancy, tenant profile and restaurant opening all differ meaningfully between them.

The town sits in La Marina Alta, the northern comarca of Alicante province, under the Montgó massif. The protected status of the Montgó and the town’s own planning constraints have limited how much new stock can be added, which is the structural reason new build here is scarcer and dearer than on the southern Costa Blanca around Torrevieja or Orihuela Costa.

Alicante province recorded a 43.29% foreign-buyer share of residential transactions in 2025, the highest of any Spanish province and roughly three times the national rate. That is the number that underwrites resale liquidity here: your eventual exit buyer is statistically likely to be another foreign buyer paying cash, which is a materially different exit than an inland market dependent on Spanish mortgage approval.

• Access: Alicante-Elche is the primary airport for the town; Valencia is the alternative and is often better for northern European routings. Both are meaningful drives rather than short transfers, which shapes weekend-let viability.
• Seasonality: the northern Costa Blanca has a longer shoulder season than the southern strip, but January and February are quiet in all three of Jávea’s centres.
• Scarcity: planning limits on new development are the reason a Jávea ticket sits well above comparable southern Costa Blanca stock.
• Comparison set: the natural comparison is Dénia and Moraira rather than Torrevieja, and the deciding variables are running costs and access rather than headline price.

What will a Jávea purchase actually cost above the price?

Alicante province is in the Comunitat Valenciana, and the regional tax treatment changed recently in a way that favours new-build buyers. Ley 5/2025 cut regional AJD to 1.4%, effective 1 June 2026, from the previous 1.5%.

Line	On a €380,000 new build	Note
List price	€380,000	Confirm against the unit schedule
IVA at 10%	€38,000	State rate on new build
AJD at 1.4%	€5,320	Comunitat Valenciana, Ley 5/2025, from 1 June 2026
Notary and land registry	roughly €2,500 to €3,500	Scales with price and deed
Independent legal work	roughly €3,800 to €4,600	Around 1% plus VAT
Indicative all-in	roughly €429,600 to €431,400	Around 13.5% above list

If the unit you are buying is a completed one being sold on rather than a first transfer from the developer, the tax basis changes entirely: resale in the Comunitat Valenciana is charged under ITP at 9% below €1 million and 11% above. On a €380,000 unit that is €34,200 rather than €43,320 in IVA plus AJD, so establishing which regime applies is worth several thousand euros of accuracy. The Valencian ITP guide sets out the bands and the reform timeline.

How should the rental side be underwritten?

Two models exist here and they are not interchangeable. Long letting produces modest, stable income from a small year-round tenant pool. Short letting produces concentrated summer income and requires a licence.

The licence question is where most projections quietly fail. Following the Supreme Court judgment of 19 May 2026, which annulled the national rental registry created by Royal Decree 1312/2024, the operative framework is regional registration plus municipal compatibility for your specific property. A scheme being physically suitable for holiday letting says nothing about whether a licence is obtainable for your unit.

• Get the licence position in writing for your unit, by plan reference, before you reserve, and do not accept a general statement about the development.
• Model the shoulder season honestly. Northern Costa Blanca extends further into spring and autumn than the southern strip, but the winter is genuinely quiet.
• Cost the management properly. Short-let operators typically take a substantial percentage of gross bookings, and that fee is the difference between a brochure yield and a bank balance.
• Apply the right tax rate. Non-resident landlords pay 19% on net if resident in the EU or EEA, and 24% on gross otherwise, with no deduction for costs in the second case.

That last point deserves emphasis for the buyers this town attracts. A British owner post-Brexit is taxed on gross rental income at 24% with no expense deduction, while a Dutch or German owner in the same building is taxed at 19% of net. On identical properties producing identical rent, the after-tax outcomes diverge substantially, and no feature of the apartment changes it.

Worked comparison, same apartment, two owners. Take a two-bedroom UNIC unit let seasonally, grossing €18,000 across the year, with €6,000 of genuine running costs: community fees, IBI, insurance, utilities during void periods and the management percentage. The EU-resident owner is taxed at 19% on the €12,000 net, paying €2,280 and keeping €9,720. The non-EU owner is taxed at 24% on the full €18,000 gross with no deduction, paying €4,320 and keeping €7,680. The second owner earns 21% less on the same asset, and the gap widens as running costs rise, because costs the first owner deducts are costs the second owner pays and is still taxed on.

That asymmetry should shape the purchase decision, not merely the tax return. A non-EU buyer whose case rests on rental yield is fighting a structural disadvantage in Spain that no property choice fixes; the same buyer purchasing primarily for use, with letting as an offset against running costs, is in a perfectly sensible position. Decide which of those two you are before you model anything.

How does UNIC sit against the rest of the Marina Alta?

The northern Costa Blanca is not a single market either, and UNIC’s position inside it explains most of its pricing. Four towns compete for broadly the same buyer along this stretch, and they differ on the variables that actually move returns rather than on scenery.

Town	What defines it	Where it beats Jávea	Where it loses
Jávea	Three centres, Montgó planning limits, scarce new build	Scarcity supports resale values	Highest running costs, thin new-build supply
Dénia	Working port town with a Balearics ferry link	Year-round population, better winter trade	Less prime-villa scarcity
Moraira	Small, low-density, almost no rentable flat stock	Prestige and quiet	Very limited letting; entry ticket high
Calpe	Dense apartment supply under the Peñón	Rentable stock and licence depth	Higher-rise character, more seasonal churn

The practical reading for an investor is that Jávea and Moraira are held for use and capital preservation, while Calpe and to a degree Dénia are held for letting. UNIC sits on the Jávea side of that line. Buying it and then underwriting it on Calpe’s rental assumptions is the mistake this comparison exists to prevent.

New-build supply is the structural point. The Montgó is a protected natural park and the town’s planning has long constrained density, so schemes of 223 homes with garage and storage included are unusual here rather than routine. That scarcity is why the ticket sits where it does, and it is also the argument for resale support: the stock that would compete with yours in five years largely cannot be built.

What that means for your exit. A resale buyer in Jávea is typically an international purchaser paying cash for lifestyle reasons, informed by the same scarcity argument. That is a slower, higher-value market than the southern Costa Blanca, where volume and financing dominate. Plan on a longer marketing period and a narrower buyer pool, offset by less price sensitivity when the right buyer appears.

Who should buy here, and who should not?

UNIC fits a buyer who wants northern Costa Blanca scarcity with a mainstream listed developer behind it; a buyer who values garage and storage being included rather than negotiated; and a buyer who wants the option of a completed unit, which most off-plan schemes cannot offer.

It does not fit a yield-first investor, because Jávea’s ticket sizes and seasonality produce lower gross returns than the southern Costa Blanca at the same capital. It does not fit a buyer who needs certainty of a short-let licence, because that is decided unit by unit. And it does not fit anyone buying purely on a “from” price, because in a four-phase scheme that number describes one unit rather than the development.

For a lower entry into the same coast with more short-let depth, Orihuela Costa is the honest comparison. For the same northern Marina Alta character at a different price point, look at Moraira.

What should you verify before reserving?

1. Establish the phase, and get it in writing. Everything else follows from the answer.
2. If the unit is complete: order a nota simple, request a community-debt certificate, and confirm the licencia de primera ocupación has been issued for that block.
3. If the unit is unbuilt: confirm the promoting entity on the contract matches the guarantee issuer, and require an individual certificate for every staged payment rather than a collective policy.
4. Ask for price per built square metre on your unit and on two comparable units, because a “from” price across four phases compares nothing.
5. Confirm in writing that the terrace, garage space and storage room are allocated to your unit specifically, with the parking bay identified.
6. Get the licence position for short letting from the town hall for your address, not from the sales office.
7. Ask how community charges are apportioned between delivered and undelivered phases, and what the reserve fund provision is.
8. Instruct a lawyer with no fee relationship to the developer or to any introducing agent, before you pay a reservation.
9. Confirm your funding across the full milestone schedule if buying unbuilt, remembering that non-resident lending of 60% to 70% applies to the completion balance and not to the deposits.

Red flag: a sales conversation that will not immediately tell you whether a given apartment is standing or unbuilt. On a four-phase scheme that is the first fact, not a detail, and reluctance to state it plainly is itself information.

Sequencing for the whole purchase is in our due diligence guide; the completion-day checks are in the handover checklist.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many phases does UNIC have? +

Four, totalling 223 homes. The first phase of 57 units has begun handover while later phases remain under construction, so the scheme contains both completed and unbuilt stock at the same time.

Are garage and storage included at UNIC? +

The scheme is specified with a terrace, a garage space and a storage room for each home. Confirm the specific parking bay and storeroom are identified against your unit in the contract rather than promised in general terms.

What is the difference in tax between a completed and an unbuilt UNIC unit? +

A first transfer of new build carries 10% IVA plus 1.4% AJD in the Comunitat Valenciana from 1 June 2026. A completed unit sold on as a resale is taxed under ITP at 9% below €1 million. On a €380,000 unit the difference is roughly €9,000, so establish which regime applies.

Is Jávea a year-round market? +

Partly. The old town retains year-round Spanish residents, the port has a working population, and the Arenal beach strip is the most seasonal of the three centres. Winter occupancy assumptions should be tested against the specific part of town your unit sits in.

Does the Alicante foreign-buyer share matter to me as a seller? +

It is the main reason resale here is liquid. Alicante province recorded a 43.29% foreign-buyer share in 2025, the highest in Spain, which means your exit buyer is statistically likely to be another international buyer rather than a domestic purchaser dependent on Spanish mortgage conditions.

Steps common to every Spanish new build are in the non-resident buyer checklist.