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What buying in Dénia actually costs

At 2.841,8 €/m² appraisals are firmly in the expensive half of the country. Dénia sits in the size class where Alicante property still trades on local knowledge more than on portals. 60,99 % of dwellings are not a main residence, which is resort territory.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

At Dénia 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

A sense of scale

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

Nationally, that urban property-tax rate falls in the dearest twentieth of them all.

Ranked against its neighbours in Alicante, it holds the sixth highest number of notarised home sales of the group.

Over the whole guide, the year of the last cadastral revision recorded here falls within the cheapest twentieth of them.

Take Alicante alone: among the municipalities here, its count of registered residential units is the sixth highest.

The comparison that matters

Nationally, that total dwelling stock falls in the band just inside the top fifth.

Ranked against its neighbours in Alicante, it holds the fourth highest share of the urban register that is housing of the group.

Over the whole guide, the number of urban cadastral units recorded here falls within the top quarter.

Line the Alicante municipalities in this guide up by appraised value per square metre and this one is the fifth highest.

Over the whole guide, the average cadastral value per home recorded here falls within the second-cheapest twentieth.

A sense of scale

Judged only against Alicante, the average cadastral value per home here is the sixth lowest in the guide.

Nationally, that appraised value of a home under five years old falls in the band just inside the top fifth.

Compared with the rest of Alicante in this guide, it sits third highest on rural property-tax rate.

Over the whole guide, the premium a new build commands over an older home recorded here falls within the band just below the top quarter.

A cadastral register left untouched for decades

Building work is taxed at 3,7 %, near the top of what town halls may charge.

Dénia last revalued its cadastre in 1989, so today's rate is charged on a base from another era — the revision risk is real.

Owning it: the annual charge

A cadastral value of 41.874 € per residential unit keeps the Dénia bill modest whatever the rate.

Dénia applies 1,05 % to urban property, close to the statutory ceiling.

Rural property is charged 0,9 %, which is steep for land.

The arithmetic is 180.000 € at 1,05 %, or 1.890 € 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.

Resort housing, measured

Almost the whole register is housing: 46.893 residential units out of 66.606 urban ones.

The census put the total stock at 45.237 dwellings.

60,99 % of Dénia dwellings are not a main residence, which changes everything from service charges to winter opening hours.

An expensive market, measured

The figure comes from 256 appraisals in the quarter.

The premium for new build is clear: 3.379,5 €/m² against 2.825,7 €/m² for anything older.

Dénia appraises at 2.841,8 €/m², expensive by national standards and rising faster than incomes.

A busy transaction market

Against 46.893 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

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

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

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter510
Second quarter466
Third quarter511
Fourth quarter477

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