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The cost of buying a home in Villarrobledo

Homes here are appraised at 631,5 €/m², at the bottom of the national range. 39,45 % of the housing stock is not a main residence, a genuinely mixed town. Villarrobledo is a town rather than a city, which in Albacete usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

In Villarrobledo 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. Castilla-La Mancha applies 9 %, among the highest transfer-tax rates in Spain.

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

Where it sits against the rest

Judged only against Albacete, the tax rate on construction work here is the lowest in the guide.

Country-wide, that appraised value per square metre is one of the cheapest twentieth of them.

Within Albacete, that is the highest share of dwellings that are not a main residence among the municipalities this guide covers.

Measured against the whole batch, that share of the urban register that is housing sits in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Take Albacete alone: among the municipalities here, its year of the last cadastral revision is the lowest.

Where this one stands

On a national view, its number of appraisals behind the average falls into the cheapest twentieth of them.

Of the Albacete municipalities covered here, this one comes highest on rural property-tax rate.

Country-wide, that average cadastral value per home is one of the third-cheapest twentieth.

Line the Albacete municipalities in this guide up by average cadastral value per home and this one is the second lowest.

Against every municipality in this guide, its urban property-tax rate lands in the band just inside the top fifth.

Where it sits against the rest

Within Albacete, that is the lowest number of notarised home sales among the municipalities this guide covers.

Over the whole guide, the number of urban cadastral units recorded here falls within the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

Set against the other Albacete municipalities in this guide, it has the lowest population.

Against every municipality in this guide, its total dwelling stock lands in the bottom quarter.

A cadastral register left untouched for decades

The tax on construction work is 3 %, so a refurbishment budget should carry it.

Villarrobledo last revalued its cadastre in 1999, so today's rate is charged on a base from another era — the revision risk is real.

What the town hall charges every year

Rural property is charged 0,92 %, which is steep for land.

A cadastral value of 44.275 € per residential unit keeps the Villarrobledo bill modest whatever the rate.

Villarrobledo sets its urban IBI at 0,75 %, a little above what most town halls charge.

The arithmetic is 180.000 € at 0,75 %, or 1.350 € a year — on a register so old that the rate tells you little about the eventual bill.

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.

A stock split between residents and visitors

15.102 dwellings were counted at the census.

39,45 % of the Villarrobledo stock is not a main residence, so resident and visitor demand compete for the same buildings.

Almost the whole register is housing: 14.774 residential units out of 22.072 urban ones.

What the market looks like at the cheap end

Appraisers value free-market housing in Villarrobledo at 631,5 €/m², which puts a whole flat within reach of a modest deposit.

That average rests on only 53 appraisals in the quarter, so read it as an indication.

How many homes change hands

Set against 14.774 residential units on the register, turnover is slow.

292 home sales went through the notaries in Villarrobledo in the year — a quiet market.

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

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter61
Second quarter67
Third quarter79
Fourth quarter85

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