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Santiago de Compostela: purchase costs and the yearly bill

Santiago de Compostela is one of the larger municipalities of A Coruña, with a housing stock too varied to describe by a single average. An appraised average of 2.365,0 €/m² puts this above the national middle. Roughly a third of dwellings, 30,72 %, are not a main residence.

What the deed itself costs

Galicia applies 8 %, at the heavier end of the ordinary range. On a Santiago de Compostela resale the Galicia transfer tax is the single largest item after the price itself.

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

Ranked against its neighbours in A Coruña, it holds the lowest tax rate on construction work of the group.

On a national view, its total dwelling stock falls into the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Compared with the rest of A Coruña in this guide, it sits second highest on count of registered residential units.

Country-wide, that number of urban cadastral units is one of the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Compared with the rest of A Coruña in this guide, it sits second highest on population.

Against the rest of the province

Over the whole guide, the rural property-tax rate recorded here falls within the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

Of the A Coruña municipalities covered here, this one comes fifth lowest on urban property-tax rate.

Country-wide, that average cadastral value per home is one of the top quarter.

Within A Coruña, that is the highest average cadastral value per home among the municipalities this guide covers.

Set the national range end to end and this share of the urban register that is housing lands in the bottom quarter.

How it compares

Among the A Coruña towns and cities covered here, it records the fourth highest share of dwellings that are not a main residence.

Across the country, the year of the last cadastral revision here belongs to the top quarter.

On appraised value per square metre it is the second highest of the A Coruña municipalities this guide covers.

Put beside the rest of the country, its number of appraisals behind the average belongs to the band just below the middle.

Appraised values and what they imply

It rests on 144 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

At 2.365,0 €/m², Santiago de Compostela appraisals sit above the national middle.

The shape of the housing stock

The whole stock came to 56.746 dwellings at the census.

In Santiago de Compostela, 30,72 % of dwellings are not a main home, enough for holiday demand to matter without dominating.

23,57 % of Santiago de Compostela main homes are rented, above the national pattern.

How rarely homes change hands

The year was almost flat: Second quarter was the busiest quarter and Third quarter the quietest, with little between them.

Notaries recorded 714 home sales in Santiago de Compostela over the year, which is very few for its size.

Set against 54.477 residential units on the register, turnover is slow.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter183
Second quarter189
Third quarter168
Fourth quarter174

The annual cost of holding the property

Santiago de Compostela charges 0,51 % on urban property, modestly below the common level.

The rural rate is 0,48 %, lower than the urban one.

Cadastral values in Santiago de Compostela average 75.284 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

A cadastral value of 180.000 € taxed at 0,51 % gives 918 €, though the register is old enough that real values have moved.

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.

How old the cadastral values are

Renovation work carries a construction tax of 2 %, at the light end.

The last general revision in Santiago de Compostela was 2010, so cadastral values sit some way below market values.

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