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The cost of buying a home in Carballo

Carballo is a town rather than a city, which in A Coruña usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock. Homes here are appraised at 993,5 €/m², at the bottom of the national range. 36,64 % of the housing stock is not a main residence, a genuinely mixed town.

What the deed itself costs

Galicia applies 8 %, at the heavier end of the ordinary range. In Carballo the transfer tax is often larger than every other closing cost put together, because the tax scales with the price and the fees largely do not.

Transfer tax on a resale purchase, at three illustrative prices
Purchase priceTransfer tax
200.000 €16.000 €
350.000 €28.000 €
600.000 €48.000 €

The three prices are round illustrative figures chosen to bracket the ordinary range, not measurements of this market.

The reduced rates, stamp duty and the deed checklist for Galicia

How it compares

Compared with the rest of A Coruña in this guide, it sits third lowest on tax rate on construction work.

Against every municipality in this guide, its share of the urban register that is housing lands in the second-cheapest twentieth.

Take A Coruña alone: among the municipalities here, its urban property-tax rate is the third lowest.

Put beside the rest of the country, its rural property-tax rate belongs to the third-cheapest twentieth.

Judged only against A Coruña, the share of dwellings that are not a main residence here is the second highest in the guide.

Against the rest of the province

Across the country, the appraised value per square metre here belongs to the second-cheapest twentieth.

Ranked against its neighbours in A Coruña, it holds the lowest number of appraisals behind the average of the group.

Against every municipality in this guide, its number of notarised home sales lands in the second-cheapest twentieth.

Take A Coruña alone: among the municipalities here, its year of the last cadastral revision is the second highest.

On a national view, its population falls into the band just above the bottom quarter.

How it compares

Within A Coruña, that is the fifth lowest count of registered residential units among the municipalities this guide covers.

Measured against the whole batch, that number of urban cadastral units sits in the band just below the middle.

Set against the other A Coruña municipalities in this guide, it has the fifth highest average cadastral value per home.

Against every municipality in this guide, its average cadastral value per home lands in the exact middle of the range.

A stock split between residents and visitors

17.172 of 32.903 urban units are residential, a housing-led register.

Tenure is published only for the larger municipalities and the provincial capitals, which leaves Carballo out.

36,64 % of the Carballo stock is not a main residence, so resident and visitor demand compete for the same buildings.

What owning costs every year

The urban IBI rate in Carballo is 0,44 %, on the low side nationally.

The rural rate is 0,44 %, lower than the urban one.

The typical Carballo home is on the register at 58.287 €, below the national middle.

On 180.000 € of cadastral value the 0,44 % rate yields 792 €, on a register that has not been refreshed in a long time.

The cadastral value in this example is a round illustrative figure, not the cadastral value of any particular property here. Ask for the last IBI receipt: it states the real one.

What the market looks like at the cheap end

That average rests on only 40 appraisals in the quarter, so read it as an indication.

Appraisers value free-market housing in Carballo at 993,5 €/m², which puts a whole flat within reach of a modest deposit.

How many homes change hands

Second quarter carried far more deeds than Third quarter, so timing an offer against the calendar is worth something here.

Set against 17.172 residential units on the register, turnover is slow.

318 home sales went through the notaries in Carballo in the year — a quiet market.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter80
Second quarter97
Third quarter62
Fourth quarter79

An ageing cadastral register

Carballo has not revalued since 2009, which is long enough for the gap to market values to be substantial.

The tax on construction work is 2,5 %, so a refurbishment budget should carry it.

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