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What buying in Igualada actually costs

The appraised average of 1.854,1 €/m² is close to the ordinary Spanish level. Almost nothing here is a second home: 14,11 % of dwellings are not somebody's main residence. Igualada 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

The Catalonia transfer tax applies to resale purchases in Igualada; a new build is charged VAT and stamp duty instead. 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

How it compares

Among the Barcelona towns and cities covered here, it records the third lowest share of the urban register that is housing.

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

Within Barcelona, that is the eleventh highest average cadastral value per home among the municipalities this guide covers.

Nationally, that average cadastral value per home falls in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Ranked against its neighbours in Barcelona, it holds the tenth highest share of dwellings that are not a main residence of the group.

Against the rest of the province

Measured against the whole batch, that year of the last cadastral revision sits in the top quarter.

Take Barcelona alone: among the municipalities here, its number of appraisals behind the average is the eleventh lowest.

Over the whole guide, the tax rate on construction work recorded here falls within the band just above the middle.

Set against the other Barcelona municipalities in this guide, it has the second lowest appraised value per square metre.

Over the whole guide, the number of notarised home sales recorded here falls within the band just above the bottom quarter.

How it compares

Ranked against its neighbours in Barcelona, it holds the sixteenth lowest population of the group.

Nationally, that rural property-tax rate falls in the exact middle of the range.

Judged only against Barcelona, the count of registered residential units here is the fifteenth lowest in the guide.

Put beside the rest of the country, its number of urban cadastral units belongs to the band just below the middle.

A stock of homes people actually live in

Only 14,11 % of Igualada dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

17.331 of 33.318 urban units are residential, a housing-led register.

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

How old the cadastral values are

Building work is taxed at 3,99 %, near the top of what town halls may charge.

The last general revision in Igualada was 2010, so cadastral values sit some way below market values.

Owning it: the annual charge

At 87.870 € per dwelling, the Igualada cadastral base is high enough that the rate matters.

Rural land carries 0,7 %, close to the urban rate.

Igualada applies 0,91 % to urban property, close to the statutory ceiling.

A cadastral value of 180.000 € taxed at 0,91 % gives 1.638 €, 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.

What the market looks like

The average appraisal in Igualada is 1.854,1 €/m², an ordinary Spanish level.

It rests on 129 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

How many homes change hands

With 17.331 residential units on the register, that is moderate turnover of the existing stock.

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

503 home sales went through the notaries in Igualada in the year — a quiet market.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter97
Second quarter136
Third quarter131
Fourth quarter139

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