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Orihuela: purchase costs and the yearly bill

An appraised average of 2.166,2 €/m² puts this above the national middle. Orihuela is one of the larger municipalities of Alicante, with a housing stock too varied to describe by a single average. 64,07 % of dwellings are not a main residence, which is resort territory.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

Valencian Community applies 9 %, among the highest transfer-tax rates in Spain. On a Orihuela resale the Valencian Community transfer tax is the single largest item after the price itself.

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

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

Country-wide, that count of registered residential units is one of the third-dearest twentieth.

Ranked against its neighbours in Alicante, it holds the fourth highest total dwelling stock of the group.

Put beside the rest of the country, its number of urban cadastral units belongs to the third-dearest twentieth.

On share of dwellings that are not a main residence it is the third highest of the Alicante municipalities this guide covers.

The comparison that matters

Set the national range end to end and this share of the urban register that is housing lands in the dearest twentieth of them all.

Of the Alicante municipalities covered here, this one comes highest on premium a new build commands over an older home.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the number of appraisals behind the average is in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

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

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

A sense of scale

Ranked against its neighbours in Alicante, it holds the second lowest average cadastral value per home of the group.

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

Compared with the rest of Alicante in this guide, it sits third lowest on appraised value of an older home.

Put beside the rest of the country, its rural property-tax rate belongs to the eighth twentieth from the bottom.

How fast property turns over

90.780 residential units are registered, and a large slice of them turns over annually.

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

Orihuela recorded 4.983 notarised home sales in the year, a rate only holiday and investment markets reach.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter1.260
Second quarter1.358
Third quarter1.130
Fourth quarter1.235

A cadastral register left untouched for decades

Orihuela last revalued its cadastre in 1994, so today's rate is charged on a base from another era — the revision risk is real.

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

Resort housing, measured

Almost the whole register is housing: 90.780 residential units out of 123.768 urban ones.

The whole stock came to 88.508 dwellings at the census.

64,07 % of Orihuela dwellings are not a main residence, which changes everything from service charges to winter opening hours.

Appraised values and what they imply

New build commands 2.815,3 €/m² against 2.124,5 €/m² for older homes, a gap wide enough to be a different market.

407 appraisals stand behind it, enough for the average to be stable.

At 2.166,2 €/m², Orihuela appraisals sit above the national middle.

What the town hall charges every year

A cadastral value of 35.819 € per residential unit keeps the Orihuela bill modest whatever the rate.

Orihuela sets its urban IBI at 0,695 %, a little above what most town halls charge.

Land classed as rural is taxed at 0,65 %.

The arithmetic is 180.000 € at 0,695 %, or 1.251 € 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.

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