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What a purchase in Roquetas de Mar costs beyond the price

39,99 % of the housing stock is not a main residence, a genuinely mixed town. At 1.697,9 €/m² the appraised average sits below the national middle. Roquetas de Mar is among the biggest places in Almería, and its neighbourhoods diverge enough that a municipal average hides more than it shows.

The one-off cost at signing

Buying an existing home in Roquetas de Mar means paying the Andalusia transfer tax on top of the price, not out of it. 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

Put beside its neighbours

Set against the other Almería municipalities in this guide, it has the second highest number of notarised home sales.

Nationally, that total dwelling stock falls in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Among the Almería towns and cities covered here, it records the second highest count of registered residential units.

Across the country, the number of appraisals behind the average here belongs to the third-dearest twentieth.

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

How it ranks

Over the whole guide, the population recorded here falls within the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Ranked against its neighbours in Almería, it holds the second lowest tax rate on construction work of the group.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the share of dwellings that are not a main residence is in the third-dearest twentieth.

On appraised value of a home under five years old it is the second lowest of the Almería municipalities this guide covers.

Nationally, that appraised value of an older home falls in the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

Put beside its neighbours

Line the Almería municipalities in this guide up by year of the last cadastral revision and this one is the third lowest.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the urban property-tax rate is in the band just inside the top fifth.

Take Almería alone: among the municipalities here, its share of the urban register that is housing is the third lowest.

Nationally, that appraised value per square metre falls in the eighth twentieth from the bottom.

The market in appraisal terms

Roquetas de Mar housing is appraised at 1.697,9 €/m² on average.

Homes under five years old are appraised at 1.873,6 €/m² against 1.695,7 €/m² for older stock — a modest premium.

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

What the town hall charges every year

Cadastral values in Roquetas de Mar average 60.980 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

The rural rate of 0,8 % is unusually close to the urban one.

Roquetas de Mar sets its urban IBI at 0,75 %, a little above what most town halls charge.

A cadastral value of 180.000 € taxed at 0,75 % gives 1.350 €, 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 Roquetas de Mar recorded 2.823 home sales in the year, an active market.

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

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

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter642
Second quarter866
Third quarter585
Fourth quarter730

A stock split between residents and visitors

62.150 dwellings in total were counted.

20,08 % of Roquetas de Mar main homes are rented, above the national pattern.

39,99 % of the Roquetas de Mar stock is not a main residence, so resident and visitor demand compete for the same buildings.

How old the cadastral values are

The last general revision in Roquetas de Mar was 2012, 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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