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The cost of buying a home in Hellín

Hellín is a town rather than a city, which in Albacete usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock. Homes here are appraised at 684,7 €/m², at the bottom of the national range. Roughly a third of dwellings, 31,6 %, are not a main residence.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

Castilla-La Mancha applies 9 %, among the highest transfer-tax rates in Spain. In Hellín 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 €18.000 €
350.000 €31.500 €
600.000 €54.000 €

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 Castilla-La Mancha

How it compares

On appraised value per square metre it is the second lowest of the Albacete municipalities this guide covers.

Nationally, that rural property-tax rate falls in the third-cheapest twentieth.

Compared with the rest of Albacete in this guide, it sits lowest on number of appraisals behind the average.

Set the national range end to end and this year of the last cadastral revision lands in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

On urban property-tax rate it is the highest of the Albacete municipalities this guide covers.

Against the rest of the province

Put beside the rest of the country, its average cadastral value per home belongs to the third-cheapest twentieth.

Take Albacete alone: among the municipalities here, its average cadastral value per home is the lowest.

Nationally, that share of dwellings that are not a main residence falls in the band just inside the top fifth.

Set against the other Albacete municipalities in this guide, it has the second lowest number of notarised home sales.

Put beside the rest of the country, its share of the urban register that is housing belongs to the lower middle of the range.

How it compares

On tax rate on construction work it is the second lowest of the Albacete municipalities this guide covers.

Put beside the rest of the country, its count of registered residential units belongs to the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

Within Albacete, that is the second lowest number of urban cadastral units among the municipalities this guide covers.

Nationally, that total dwelling stock falls in the band just above the bottom quarter.

What the market looks like at the cheap end

Appraisers value free-market housing in Hellín at 684,7 €/m², which puts a whole flat within reach of a modest deposit.

That average rests on only 44 appraisals in the quarter, so read it as an indication.

How old the cadastral values are

The last general revision in Hellín was 2013, so cadastral values sit some way below market values.

Building work is taxed at 3,68 %, near the top of what town halls may charge.

How many homes change hands

Sales clustered in First quarter and thinned in Third quarter, the ordinary Spanish seasonal pattern.

384 home sales went through the notaries in Hellín in the year — a quiet market.

With 14.023 residential units on the register, that is moderate turnover of the existing stock.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter113
Second quarter87
Third quarter83
Fourth quarter101

The yearly bill, which is not small here

The 0,775 % urban IBI rate in Hellín is high by Spanish standards.

The rural rate is 0,443 %, lower than the urban one.

A cadastral value of 43.404 € per residential unit keeps the Hellín bill modest whatever the rate.

A cadastral value of 180.000 € taxed at 0,775 % gives 1.395 €, 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.

The shape of the housing stock

14.023 of 23.394 urban units are residential, a housing-led register.

In Hellín, 31,6 % of dwellings are not a main home, enough for holiday demand to matter without dominating.

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

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