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The cost of buying a home in Níjar

Roughly a third of dwellings, 31,03 %, are not a main residence. The average appraisal is 1.182,4 €/m², which is cheap by Spanish standards. Níjar is a town rather than a city, which in Almería usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock.

The one-off cost at signing

The transfer tax set by Andalusia is the one closing cost in Níjar that nobody can negotiate. The Andalusia rate is 7 %, around the middle of the Spanish range.

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

Where it sits against the rest

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

Set the national range end to end and this rural property-tax rate lands in the dearest twentieth of them all.

Line the Almería municipalities in this guide up by appraised value per square metre and this one is the lowest.

Over the whole guide, the share of dwellings that are not a main residence recorded here falls within the top quarter.

Within Almería, that is the highest share of the urban register that is housing among the municipalities this guide covers.

Where this one stands

Country-wide, that number of appraisals behind the average is one of the second-cheapest twentieth.

Judged only against Almería, the year of the last cadastral revision here is the second lowest in the guide.

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

On count of registered residential units it is the third lowest of the Almería municipalities this guide covers.

Across the country, the number of notarised home sales here belongs to the bottom quarter.

Where it sits against the rest

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

Country-wide, that average cadastral value per home is one of the band just below the middle.

On average cadastral value per home it is the third lowest of the Almería municipalities this guide covers.

On a national view, its population falls into the band just above the bottom quarter.

What homes are appraised at

The appraised average in Níjar is 1.182,4 €/m², cheap enough that transaction costs are a large share of the total outlay.

It rests on 86 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

The pace of sales

Níjar saw 444 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

Against 12.551 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Sales clustered in Second quarter and thinned in Fourth quarter, the ordinary Spanish seasonal pattern.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter98
Second quarter128
Third quarter125
Fourth quarter93

How old the cadastral values are

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

The tax on construction work is 2,85 %, so a refurbishment budget should carry it.

The shape of the housing stock

Almost the whole register is housing: 12.551 residential units out of 19.281 urban ones.

In Níjar, 31,03 % of dwellings are not a main home, enough for holiday demand to matter without dominating.

15.503 dwellings were counted at the census.

The recurring yearly cost

The typical Níjar home is on the register at 55.674 €, below the national middle.

Rural property is charged 1,14 %, which is steep for land.

At 0,65 %, the Níjar urban IBI rate is an ordinary one.

A cadastral value of 180.000 € taxed at 0,65 % gives 1.170 €, 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.

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