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What buying in Gavà actually costs

The appraised average of 3.392,5 €/m² belongs to the small group of expensive Spanish municipalities. Almost nothing here is a second home: 13,46 % of dwellings are not somebody's main residence. Gavà sits in the size class where Barcelona property still trades on local knowledge more than on portals.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

In Gavà the Catalonia transfer tax on a resale runs into tens of thousands of euros, which is why the declared value is scrutinised. 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.

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

Where this one stands

Line the Barcelona municipalities in this guide up by appraised value per square metre and this one is the seventh highest.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the average cadastral value per home is in the band just inside the top fifth.

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

Across the country, the appraised value of an older home here belongs to the third-dearest twentieth.

Within Barcelona, that is the seventh highest appraised value of a home under five years old among the municipalities this guide covers.

Measured against its neighbours

Put beside the rest of the country, its share of dwellings that are not a main residence belongs to the bottom quarter.

Among the Barcelona towns and cities covered here, it records the lowest premium a new build commands over an older home.

Set the national range end to end and this rural property-tax rate lands in the band just inside the top fifth.

Set against the other Barcelona municipalities in this guide, it has the thirteenth lowest year of the last cadastral revision.

Measured against the whole batch, that urban property-tax rate sits in the top quarter.

Where this one stands

Line the Barcelona municipalities in this guide up by population and this one is the twentieth lowest.

Set the national range end to end and this share of the urban register that is housing lands in the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.

Of the Barcelona municipalities covered here, this one comes fifth highest on tax rate on construction work.

Over the whole guide, the number of notarised home sales recorded here falls within the lower middle of the range.

The cadastral values are dated

The Gavà register dates from 2001; a future revision could move the yearly bill significantly even if the rate never changes.

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

A stock of homes people actually live in

Only 13,46 % of Gavà dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

No rented share is available for Gavà: the census stops short of municipalities this size.

Almost the whole register is housing: 19.953 residential units out of 31.644 urban ones.

What the appraisers see

The figure comes from 187 appraisals in the quarter.

New and old are appraised at much the same level, 3.563,8 €/m² against 3.388,4 €/m².

The appraised average in Gavà is 3.392,5 €/m², which is a coastal or capital-city price.

How many homes change hands

With 19.953 residential units on the register, that is moderate turnover of the existing stock.

537 home sales went through the notaries in Gavà in the year — a quiet market.

Fourth quarter carried far more deeds than Third quarter, so timing an offer against the calendar is worth something here.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter126
Second quarter147
Third quarter105
Fourth quarter159

What the town hall charges every year

At 83.232 € per dwelling, the Gavà cadastral base is high enough that the rate matters.

Rural property is charged 0,9 %, which is steep for land.

Gavà sets its urban IBI at 0,735 %, a little above what most town halls charge.

180.000 € of cadastral value at 0,735 % is 1.323 € a year, but the base is dated and a revision would change it sharply.

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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