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Cornellà de Llobregat: purchase costs and the yearly bill

Almost nothing here is a second home: 6,8 % of dwellings are not somebody's main residence. Cornellà de Llobregat is one of the larger municipalities of Barcelona, with a housing stock too varied to describe by a single average. At 3.065,3 €/m² appraisals are firmly in the expensive half of the country.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

Catalonia charges transfer tax on a progressive scale rather than a single rate, starting at 10 % and rising through bands as the value goes up; the table below applies the scale bracket by bracket. At Cornellà de Llobregat price levels the Catalonia transfer tax is worth several months of most household budgets, so it belongs in the offer, not after it.

Transfer tax on a resale purchase, at three illustrative prices
Purchase priceTransfer tax
200.000 €20.000 €
350.000 €35.000 €
600.000 €60.000 €

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 Catalonia

The comparison that matters

Set against the other Barcelona municipalities in this guide, it has the ninth highest population.

Country-wide, that share of dwellings that are not a main residence is one of the cheapest twentieth of them.

Set against the other Barcelona municipalities in this guide, it has the ninth highest number of urban cadastral units.

Measured against the whole batch, that count of registered residential units sits in the top quarter.

Line the Barcelona municipalities in this guide up by total dwelling stock and this one is the ninth highest.

Where it sits against the rest

Taking every municipality covered here together, the appraised value per square metre is in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Set against the other Barcelona municipalities in this guide, it has the twelfth lowest share of the urban register that is housing.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the number of notarised home sales is in the band just below the top quarter.

On rural property-tax rate it is the ninth lowest of the Barcelona municipalities this guide covers.

On a national view, its number of appraisals behind the average falls into the top quarter.

The comparison that matters

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

Measured against the whole batch, that average cadastral value per home sits in the band just below the top quarter.

Judged only against Barcelona, the tax rate on construction work here is the third highest in the guide.

Put beside the rest of the country, its urban property-tax rate belongs to the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.

A stock of homes people actually live in

22,66 % of Cornellà de Llobregat main homes are rented, above the national pattern.

Only 6,8 % of Cornellà de Llobregat dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

The whole stock came to 37.034 dwellings at the census.

How many homes change hands

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

1.132 home sales went through the notaries in Cornellà de Llobregat in the year — a quiet market.

Against 36.455 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter247
Second quarter271
Third quarter271
Fourth quarter343

What the town hall charges every year

Cadastral values in Cornellà de Llobregat average 72.064 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

Cornellà de Llobregat sets its urban IBI at 0,68 %, a little above what most town halls charge.

The rural rate is 0,499 %, lower than the urban one.

On 180.000 € of cadastral value the 0,68 % rate yields 1.224 €, on a register that has not been refreshed in a long time.

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.

An ageing cadastral register

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

Cornellà de Llobregat has not revalued since 2006, which is long enough for the gap to market values to be substantial.

An expensive market, measured

The figure comes from 299 appraisals in the quarter.

Cornellà de Llobregat appraises at 3.065,3 €/m², expensive by national standards and rising faster than incomes.

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