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What buying in Santa Pola actually costs

Santa Pola sits in the size class where Alicante property still trades on local knowledge more than on portals. An appraised average of 2.488,7 €/m² puts this above the national middle. 67,41 % 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 Santa Pola 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

Set against the other Alicante municipalities in this guide, it has the second highest share of dwellings that are not a main residence.

Put beside the rest of the country, its share of the urban register that is housing belongs to the dearest twentieth of them all.

Take Alicante alone: among the municipalities here, its number of notarised home sales is the seventh highest.

Measured against the whole batch, that year of the last cadastral revision sits in the dearest twentieth of them all.

Take Alicante alone: among the municipalities here, its total dwelling stock is the seventh highest.

The comparison that matters

Over the whole guide, the count of registered residential units recorded here falls within the band just inside the top fifth.

Ranked against its neighbours in Alicante, it holds the seventh highest number of urban cadastral units of the group.

Measured against the whole batch, that premium a new build commands over an older home sits in the third-cheapest twentieth.

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

Measured against the whole batch, that urban property-tax rate sits in the band just inside the top fifth.

A sense of scale

Of the Alicante municipalities covered here, this one comes sixth highest on appraised value per square metre.

Country-wide, that number of appraisals behind the average is one of the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.

Of the Alicante municipalities covered here, this one comes fourth highest on average cadastral value per home.

Over the whole guide, the average cadastral value per home recorded here falls within the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.

Appraised values and what they imply

At 2.488,7 €/m², Santa Pola appraisals sit above the national middle.

New and old are appraised at much the same level, 2.566,2 €/m² against 2.486,1 €/m².

The figure comes from 232 appraisals in the quarter.

The yearly bill, which is not small here

The 0,76 % urban IBI rate in Santa Pola is high by Spanish standards.

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

Cadastral values in Santa Pola average 66.614 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

On a cadastral value of 180.000 € the 0,76 % rate produces 1.368 € a year, and after a recent revaluation that figure is close to what a buyer will actually see.

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 fast property turns over

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

Santa Pola recorded 1.925 notarised home sales in the year, a rate only holiday and investment markets reach.

Against 44.305 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter477
Second quarter603
Third quarter376
Fourth quarter469

Resort housing, measured

Almost the whole register is housing: 44.305 residential units out of 59.065 urban ones.

67,41 % of Santa Pola dwellings are not a main residence, which changes everything from service charges to winter opening hours.

The census put the total stock at 45.155 dwellings.

The cadastral values were reset very recently

Santa Pola revalued its cadastre in 2025, so the register still tracks reality and there is little revaluation risk to price in.

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

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