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The cost of buying a home in Adra

The ministry publishes no appraisal average for this municipality, so the market figures below stop at the notarial sales count. Adra is a town rather than a city, which in Almería usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock. Second homes are a minority presence, at 25,28 % of the dwelling stock.

The one-off cost at signing

The Andalusia rate is 7 %, around the middle of the Spanish range. The Andalusia transfer tax applies to resale purchases in Adra; a new build is charged VAT and stamp duty instead.

Transfer tax on a resale purchase, at three illustrative prices
Purchase priceTransfer tax
200.000 €14.000 €
350.000 €24.500 €
600.000 €42.000 €

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 Andalusia

Put beside its neighbours

Set against the other Almería municipalities in this guide, it has the third highest rural property-tax rate.

Measured against the whole batch, that year of the last cadastral revision sits in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

On tax rate on construction work it is the third highest of the Almería municipalities this guide covers.

Put beside the rest of the country, its total dwelling stock belongs to the second-cheapest twentieth.

Take Almería alone: among the municipalities here, its count of registered residential units is the second lowest.

How it ranks

Across the country, the number of urban cadastral units here belongs to the second-cheapest twentieth.

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

On a national view, its average cadastral value per home falls into the band just above the bottom quarter.

Take Almería alone: among the municipalities here, its average cadastral value per home is the second lowest.

On a national view, its population falls into the cheapest twentieth of them.

Against the rest of the province

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

Against every municipality in this guide, its share of dwellings that are not a main residence lands in the band just above the middle.

Ranked against its neighbours in Almería, it holds the third lowest urban property-tax rate of the group.

What the town hall charges every year

Rural property is charged 1,03 %, which is steep for land.

Adra sets its urban IBI at 0,665 %, a little above what most town halls charge.

The typical Adra home is on the register at 51.280 €, below the national middle.

A cadastral value of 180.000 € taxed at 0,665 % gives 1.197 €, 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.

What the housing stock is like

Almost the whole register is housing: 11.839 residential units out of 18.702 urban ones.

25,28 % of dwellings in Adra are not a main residence — a normal proportion for an inland town.

12.315 dwellings were counted at the census.

How old the cadastral values are

The last general revision in Adra was 2013, so cadastral values sit some way below market values.

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

What the market looks like

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

The pace of sales

With 11.839 residential units on the register, that is moderate turnover of the existing stock.

Adra saw 348 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

Sales clustered in First quarter and thinned in Third quarter, the ordinary Spanish seasonal pattern.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter103
Second quarter92
Third quarter75
Fourth quarter78

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