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The cost of buying a home in Martorell

Martorell is a town rather than a city, which in Barcelona usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock. The appraised average of 2.026,7 €/m² is close to the ordinary Spanish level. Almost nothing here is a second home: 6,72 % of dwellings are not somebody's main residence.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

The Catalonia transfer tax applies to resale purchases in Martorell; 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

On year of the last cadastral revision it is the lowest of the Barcelona municipalities this guide covers.

On a national view, its share of dwellings that are not a main residence falls into the cheapest twentieth of them.

Judged only against Barcelona, the urban property-tax rate here is the thirteenth highest in the guide.

Over the whole guide, the rural property-tax rate recorded here falls within the band just inside the top fifth.

Take Barcelona alone: among the municipalities here, its total dwelling stock is the fourth lowest.

Against the rest of the province

Against every municipality in this guide, its count of registered residential units lands in the cheapest twentieth of them.

Ranked against its neighbours in Barcelona, it holds the second lowest number of appraisals behind the average of the group.

On a national view, its number of urban cadastral units falls into the second-cheapest twentieth.

Compared with the rest of Barcelona in this guide, it sits eighteenth lowest on share of the urban register that is housing.

Across the country, the average cadastral value per home here belongs to the eighth twentieth from the bottom.

How it compares

Line the Barcelona municipalities in this guide up by average cadastral value per home and this one is the fourth lowest.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the tax rate on construction work is in the upper middle of the range.

On number of notarised home sales it is the eleventh lowest of the Barcelona municipalities this guide covers.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the population is in the third-cheapest twentieth.

A cadastral register left untouched for decades

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

Martorell last revalued its cadastre in 1987, so today's rate is charged on a base from another era — the revision risk is real.

The yearly bill, which is not small here

The 0,808 % urban IBI rate in Martorell is high by Spanish standards.

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

The typical Martorell home is on the register at 53.268 €, below the national middle.

The arithmetic is 180.000 € at 0,808 %, or 1.454 € 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.

What the market looks like

It rests on 103 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

The average appraisal in Martorell is 2.026,7 €/m², an ordinary Spanish level.

The pace of sales

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

Martorell saw 462 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

Against 10.957 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter106
Second quarter103
Third quarter89
Fourth quarter164

A stock of homes people actually live in

10.685 dwellings were counted at the census.

Only 6,72 % of Martorell dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

10.957 of 18.402 urban units are residential, a housing-led register.

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