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Benidorm: purchase costs and the yearly bill

At 51,14 % not a main residence, the holiday half of the stock is the larger half. Benidorm is one of the larger municipalities of Alicante, with a housing stock too varied to describe by a single average. At 3.089,3 €/m² appraisals are firmly in the expensive half of the country.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

At Benidorm price levels the Valencian Community transfer tax is worth several months of most household budgets, so it belongs in the offer, not after it. Valencian Community 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 Valencian Community

Where this one stands

Of the Alicante municipalities covered here, this one comes fifth highest on number of notarised home sales.

Against every municipality in this guide, its count of registered residential units lands in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Line the Alicante municipalities in this guide up by total dwelling stock and this one is the fifth highest.

Across the country, the number of urban cadastral units here belongs to the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Line the Alicante municipalities in this guide up by share of dwellings that are not a main residence and this one is the eighth highest.

Measured against its neighbours

Against every municipality in this guide, its year of the last cadastral revision lands in the cheapest twentieth of them.

Set against the other Alicante municipalities in this guide, it has the fifth highest population.

Set the national range end to end and this appraised value per square metre lands in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Of the Alicante municipalities covered here, this one comes ninth highest on urban property-tax rate.

Over the whole guide, the number of appraisals behind the average recorded here falls within the band just below the top quarter.

Where this one stands

Line the Alicante municipalities in this guide up by rural property-tax rate and this one is the eighth lowest.

Put beside the rest of the country, its share of the urban register that is housing belongs to the band just below the top quarter.

On tax rate on construction work it is the highest of the Alicante municipalities this guide covers.

On a national view, its average cadastral value per home falls into the band just above the middle.

The yearly bill, which is not small here

Cadastral values in Benidorm average 60.330 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

The 0,82 % urban IBI rate in Benidorm is high by Spanish standards.

Land classed as rural is taxed at 0,6 %.

The arithmetic is 180.000 € at 0,82 %, or 1.476 € 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 built largely for holidays

With 51,14 % of dwellings not a main home, Benidorm is more holiday market than housing market.

At 26,3 % of main homes rented, Benidorm has a rental sector large enough to set the tone of the market.

The whole stock came to 60.479 dwellings at the census.

A busy transaction market

2.195 home sales were notarised in Benidorm over the year, well above what its population alone would predict.

Second quarter was the busiest quarter and Fourth quarter the thinnest, but the spread was mild.

Against 61.856 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter553
Second quarter587
Third quarter550
Fourth quarter505

A cadastral register left untouched for decades

The construction tax is 4 %, the statutory maximum, which matters if you plan to renovate.

Benidorm last revalued its cadastre in 1990, so today's rate is charged on a base from another era — the revision risk is real.

An expensive market, measured

Benidorm appraises at 3.089,3 €/m², expensive by national standards and rising faster than incomes.

The figure comes from 263 appraisals in the quarter.

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