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The cost of buying a home in el Campello

el Campello is a town rather than a city, which in Alicante usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock. At 2.908,8 €/m² appraisals are firmly in the expensive half of the country. At 54,17 % not a main residence, the holiday half of the stock is the larger half.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

At el Campello 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

Put beside its neighbours

Compared with the rest of Alicante in this guide, it sits seventh highest on share of dwellings that are not a main residence.

On a national view, its share of the urban register that is housing falls into the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

Set against the other Alicante municipalities in this guide, it has the fourth highest appraised value per square metre.

Over the whole guide, the average cadastral value per home recorded here falls within the top quarter.

Among the Alicante towns and cities covered here, it records the second highest average cadastral value per home.

How it ranks

Measured against the whole batch, that urban property-tax rate sits in the band just above the bottom quarter.

Line the Alicante municipalities in this guide up by tax rate on construction work and this one is the eighth lowest.

Set the national range end to end and this number of urban cadastral units lands in the upper middle of the range.

Line the Alicante municipalities in this guide up by count of registered residential units and this one is the ninth lowest.

Put beside the rest of the country, its total dwelling stock belongs to the upper middle of the range.

Put beside its neighbours

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

Across the country, the year of the last cadastral revision here belongs to the upper middle of the range.

On number of appraisals behind the average it is the sixth lowest of the Alicante municipalities this guide covers.

Put beside the rest of the country, its population belongs to the bottom quarter.

The annual cost of holding the property

el Campello charges 0,53 % on urban property, modestly below the common level.

Cadastral values in el Campello average 74.784 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

Rural land carries 0,75 %, close to the urban rate.

On 180.000 € of cadastral value the 0,53 % rate yields 954 €, on a register that has not been refreshed in a long time.

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

26.209 of 46.365 urban units are residential, a housing-led register.

With 54,17 % of dwellings not a main home, el Campello is more holiday market than housing market.

26.801 dwellings were counted at the census.

An ageing cadastral register

Building work is taxed at 3,5 %, near the top of what town halls may charge.

el Campello has not revalued since 2008, which is long enough for the gap to market values to be substantial.

An expensive market, measured

It rests on 142 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

el Campello appraises at 2.908,8 €/m², expensive by national standards and rising faster than incomes.

How active the market is

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

Notaries in el Campello recorded 799 home sales in the year, an active market.

Against 26.209 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter198
Second quarter213
Third quarter186
Fourth quarter202

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