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The cost of buying a home in Mutxamel

Mutxamel is a town rather than a city, which in Alicante usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock. Roughly a third of dwellings, 28,57 %, are not a main residence. The ministry publishes no appraisal average for this municipality, so the market figures below stop at the notarial sales count.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

The Valencian Community transfer tax applies to resale purchases in Mutxamel; a new build is charged VAT and stamp duty instead. 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 it sits against the rest

Compared with the rest of Alicante in this guide, it sits third lowest on tax rate on construction work.

Nationally, that average cadastral value per home falls in the band just below the top quarter.

Compared with the rest of Alicante in this guide, it sits third highest on average cadastral value per home.

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

Set against the other Alicante municipalities in this guide, it has the third highest year of the last cadastral revision.

Where this one stands

Nationally, that number of urban cadastral units falls in the second-cheapest twentieth.

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

Country-wide, that count of registered residential units is one of the second-cheapest twentieth.

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

Across the country, the urban property-tax rate here belongs to the band just below the middle.

A sense of scale

Compared with the rest of Alicante in this guide, it sits fourth lowest on population.

Against every municipality in this guide, its rural property-tax rate lands in the band just above the middle.

Among the Alicante towns and cities covered here, it records the fourth lowest number of notarised home sales.

What the market looks like

The ministry does not publish this figure for Mutxamel, so it is stated here as not available rather than estimated.

The recurring yearly cost

At 0,6 %, the Mutxamel urban IBI rate is an ordinary one.

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

Cadastral values in Mutxamel average 74.763 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

A cadastral value of 180.000 € taxed at 0,6 % gives 1.080 €, 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.

How active the market is

Notaries in Mutxamel recorded 555 home sales in the year, an active market.

Against 12.402 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

First quarter carried far more deeds than Third quarter, so timing an offer against the calendar is worth something here.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter175
Second quarter140
Third quarter108
Fourth quarter132

The shape of the housing stock

Almost the whole register is housing: 12.402 residential units out of 19.177 urban ones.

13.355 dwellings were counted at the census.

In Mutxamel, 28,57 % of dwellings are not a main home, enough for holiday demand to matter without dominating.

How old the cadastral values are

The last general revision in Mutxamel was 2010, so cadastral values sit some way below market values.

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

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