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Buying and owning a home in Granollers

Almost nothing here is a second home: 10,78 % of dwellings are not somebody's main residence. Granollers is large enough for several distinct sub-markets to exist inside one Barcelona municipality. An appraised average of 2.532,8 €/m² puts this above the national middle.

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. On a Granollers resale the Catalonia transfer tax is the single largest item after the price itself.

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

A sense of scale

Take Barcelona alone: among the municipalities here, its urban property-tax rate is the second highest.

Country-wide, that share of the urban register that is housing is one of the cheapest twentieth of them.

Line the Barcelona municipalities in this guide up by share of dwellings that are not a main residence and this one is the twentieth highest.

Against every municipality in this guide, its year of the last cadastral revision lands in the bottom quarter.

Among the Barcelona towns and cities covered here, it records the seventeenth highest population.

The comparison that matters

Put beside the rest of the country, its premium a new build commands over an older home belongs to the bottom quarter.

Judged only against Barcelona, the number of urban cadastral units here is the fourteenth highest in the guide.

Country-wide, that average cadastral value per home is one of the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

Take Barcelona alone: among the municipalities here, its average cadastral value per home is the lowest.

Nationally, that appraised value per square metre falls in the band just below the top quarter.

A sense of scale

Compared with the rest of Barcelona in this guide, it sits fifteenth highest on number of notarised home sales.

Put beside the rest of the country, its count of registered residential units belongs to the upper middle of the range.

On total dwelling stock it is the seventeenth highest of the Barcelona municipalities this guide covers.

Over the whole guide, the tax rate on construction work recorded here falls within the upper middle of the range.

The pace of sales

Granollers saw 884 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

Against 26.145 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

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

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter177
Second quarter263
Third quarter199
Fourth quarter245

Owning it: the annual charge

Rural land carries 0,699 %, close to the urban rate.

Granollers applies 1,016 % to urban property, close to the statutory ceiling.

A cadastral value of 44.586 € per residential unit keeps the Granollers bill modest whatever the rate.

The arithmetic is 180.000 € at 1,016 %, or 1.829 € a year — on a register so old that the rate tells you little about the eventual bill.

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.

Appraised values and what they imply

At 2.532,8 €/m², Granollers appraisals sit above the national middle.

New and old are appraised at much the same level, 2.663,2 €/m² against 2.525,8 €/m².

The figure comes from 210 appraisals in the quarter.

A cadastral register left untouched for decades

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

Granollers last revalued its cadastre in 1998, so today's rate is charged on a base from another era — the revision risk is real.

A stock of homes people actually live in

At 25,67 % of main homes rented, Granollers has a rental sector large enough to set the tone of the market.

26.145 of 50.145 urban units are residential, a housing-led register.

Only 10,78 % of Granollers dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

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