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The cost of buying a home in Vícar

The ministry publishes no appraisal average for this municipality, so the market figures below stop at the notarial sales count. Second homes are a minority presence, at 24,14 % of the dwelling stock. Vícar 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 Andalusia transfer tax applies to resale purchases in Vícar; a new build is charged VAT and stamp duty instead. 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

A sense of scale

Ranked against its neighbours in Almería, it holds the second highest year of the last cadastral revision of the group.

Measured against the whole batch, that urban property-tax rate sits in the second-dearest twentieth.

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

Against every municipality in this guide, its average cadastral value per home lands in the cheapest twentieth of them.

Line the Almería municipalities in this guide up by rural property-tax rate and this one is the third lowest.

The comparison that matters

Measured against the whole batch, that tax rate on construction work sits in the band just above the bottom quarter.

Within Almería, that is the lowest count of registered residential units among the municipalities this guide covers.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the number of urban cadastral units is in the cheapest twentieth of them.

On total dwelling stock it is the lowest of the Almería municipalities this guide covers.

Nationally, that number of notarised home sales falls in the band just above the middle.

Where this one stands

Take Almería alone: among the municipalities here, its population is the second lowest.

Nationally, that share of dwellings that are not a main residence falls in the band just above the middle.

Line the Almería municipalities in this guide up by share of the urban register that is housing and this one is the third highest.

What the market looks like

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

How active the market is

Against only 10.973 registered residential units, the sales rate implies the same properties trading repeatedly.

The quarters are very uneven — Fourth quarter against Third quarter — which in a market this size usually means a development completing.

Notaries in Vícar recorded 764 home sales in the year, an active market.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter227
Second quarter157
Third quarter123
Fourth quarter257

The cadastral values were reset very recently

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

Vícar revalued its cadastre in 2022, so the register still tracks reality and there is little revaluation risk to price in.

What the housing stock is like

24,14 % of dwellings in Vícar are not a main residence — a normal proportion for an inland town.

Tenure is published only for the larger municipalities and the provincial capitals, which leaves Vícar out.

12.123 dwellings were counted at the census.

Owning it: the annual charge

A cadastral value of 36.221 € per residential unit keeps the Vícar bill modest whatever the rate.

Rural property is charged 0,95 %, which is steep for land.

Vícar applies 0,96 % to urban property, close to the statutory ceiling.

On a cadastral value of 180.000 € the 0,96 % rate produces 1.728 € 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.

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