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Manresa: purchase costs and the yearly bill

Second homes are a minority presence, at 22,69 % of the dwelling stock. Manresa is one of the larger municipalities of Barcelona, with a housing stock too varied to describe by a single average. At 1.554,0 €/m² the appraised average sits below the national middle.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

Buying an existing home in Manresa means paying the Catalonia transfer tax on top of the price, not out of it. 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

A sense of scale

Within Barcelona, that is the highest urban property-tax rate among the municipalities this guide covers.

Against every municipality in this guide, its share of the urban register that is housing lands in the second-cheapest twentieth.

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

Measured against the whole batch, that population sits in the top quarter.

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

The comparison that matters

On a national view, its number of urban cadastral units falls into the top quarter.

Among the Barcelona towns and cities covered here, it records the ninth highest number of notarised home sales.

Across the country, the count of registered residential units here belongs to the band just below the top quarter.

Take Barcelona alone: among the municipalities here, its appraised value per square metre is the lowest.

Against every municipality in this guide, its number of appraisals behind the average lands in the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.

A sense of scale

Compared with the rest of Barcelona in this guide, it sits eleventh highest on year of the last cadastral revision.

Put beside the rest of the country, its tax rate on construction work belongs to the upper middle of the range.

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

Country-wide, that average cadastral value per home is one of the band just above the middle.

What the housing stock is like

At 28,34 % of main homes rented, Manresa has a rental sector large enough to set the tone of the market.

33.892 of 63.645 urban units are residential, a housing-led register.

The whole stock came to 40.136 dwellings at the census.

Owning it: the annual charge

Cadastral values in Manresa average 61.748 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

Manresa applies 1,03 % to urban property, close to the statutory ceiling.

The rural rate is 0,438 %, lower than the urban one.

On 180.000 € of cadastral value the 1,03 % rate yields 1.854 €, 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.

Manresa has not revalued since 2008, which is long enough for the gap to market values to be substantial.

The market in appraisal terms

Manresa housing is appraised at 1.554,0 €/m² on average.

The figure comes from 238 appraisals in the quarter.

The pace of sales

Manresa saw 1.241 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

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

Against 33.892 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter283
Second quarter300
Third quarter275
Fourth quarter383

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