Kalkara Property Market Report
Median prices, listing volume, and recent trends for property in Kalkara, Malta
Data as of 27 October 2026
About Kalkara
Kalkara wraps around the Kalkara creek facing Vittoriosa across the Grand Harbour and contains both the historic Bighi Naval Hospital site (now home to the Malta Council for Science and Technology) and the modern Smart City development. The town blends maritime heritage with one of Malta's most ambitious technology-and-mixed-use SDAs.
Sub-areas
Smart City, Bighi, Kalkara village core
Lifestyle
Kalkara is harbour-village in the old core and corporate-modern in Smart City, with both halves connected by waterfront promenades.
Transport
Roughly 15 minutes to Valletta by car and 15 minutes to the airport; harbour ferry connections to Valletta from Three Cities run within walking distance.
Best for
- tech-sector employees at Smart City
- buyers wanting harbour views
- investors targeting Smart City SDA stock
Drive times
- Valletta (ferry): 5 min (ferry)
- Valletta: 15 min (drive)
- Malta International Airport: 15 min (drive)
- Sliema: 18 min (drive)
Notes for foreign buyers: Smart City is a Special Designated Area, which means non-EU buyers can purchase without an AIP permit, without the minimum-price floor, and without the one-property restriction.
Headline statistics
- Active listings
- 473
- For sale
- 190
- For rent
- 283
- Median sale price
- €700,000
- Median monthly rent
- €1,350
Median price and new listings (last 12 months)
Trend of median sale and rent prices in Kalkara over the past year. Each bar represents one month of new listings and the corresponding median price.
Median sale price by property type
Across Kalkara, the most-listed property type is apartment (135 listings). Below is the median sale price for each property type with at least 3 active listings.
| Property type | Listings | Median price |
|---|---|---|
| apartment | 135 | €765,000 |
| maisonette | 13 | €445,000 |
| farmhouse | 10 | €1,517,500 |
| town house | 10 | €762,500 |
| penthouse | 6 | €830,000 |
Median sale price by bedroom count
| Bedrooms | Listings | Median price |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | €515,000 |
| 2 | 65 | €750,000 |
| 3 | 61 | €1,305,000 |
| 4 | 10 | €1,357,500 |
How Kalkara compares
Side by side comparison of Kalkara against the rest of Malta and the highest volume nearby areas. The delta column shows how the Kalkara median sale price compares to each row.
| Area | Listings | Median sale | vs current | Median rent | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malta | 72,907 | €450,000 | +56% | €1,500 | View report |
| North | 43,506 | €560,000 | +25% | €1,600 | View report |
| Central | 15,651 | €404,000 | +73% | €1,400 | View report |
| South | 10,415 | €383,000 | +83% | €1,300 | View report |
| Gozo | 3,335 | €330,000 | +112% | €1,000 | View report |
| Marsaskala | 1,970 | €395,000 | +77% | €1,200 | View report |
| Qormi | 1,227 | €375,000 | +87% | €1,550 | View report |
| Birżebbuġa | 729 | €357,720 | +96% | €1,200 | View report |
Recent listings in Kalkara
A snapshot of the most recently added listings tracked by Darscover.
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Kalkara property prices for sellersOfficial sales in Kalkara
The prices above are what sellers ask. For what actually sold, the National Statistics Office's count of every final deed and promise of sale, month by month since 2005: Kalkara property sales.
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