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What a purchase in Mataró costs beyond the price

An appraised average of 2.548,9 €/m² puts this above the national middle. Almost nothing here is a second home: 9,16 % of dwellings are not somebody's main residence. Mataró is among the biggest places in Barcelona, and its neighbourhoods diverge enough that a municipal average hides more than it shows.

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 Mataró 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

Ranked against its neighbours in Barcelona, it holds the highest premium a new build commands over an older home of the group.

Across the country, the population here belongs to the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Ranked against its neighbours in Barcelona, it holds the sixth highest number of notarised home sales of the group.

Nationally, that number of urban cadastral units falls in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Of the Barcelona municipalities covered here, this one comes sixth highest on total dwelling stock.

The comparison that matters

Taking every municipality covered here together, the count of registered residential units is in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Line the Barcelona municipalities in this guide up by number of appraisals behind the average and this one is the sixth highest.

Put beside the rest of the country, its share of the urban register that is housing belongs to the second-cheapest twentieth.

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

Set the national range end to end and this average cadastral value per home lands in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

A sense of scale

Of the Barcelona municipalities covered here, this one comes seventeenth lowest on share of dwellings that are not a main residence.

Over the whole guide, the appraised value of a home under five years old recorded here falls within the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Of the Barcelona municipalities covered here, this one comes fifth highest on year of the last cadastral revision.

Over the whole guide, the appraised value per square metre recorded here falls within the band just below the top quarter.

A stock of homes people actually live in

Only 9,16 % of Mataró dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

52.996 dwellings in total were counted.

23,89 % of Mataró main homes are rented, above the national pattern.

How old the cadastral values are

The last general revision in Mataró was 2013, so cadastral values sit some way below market values.

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

The pace of sales

Against 52.332 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Fourth quarter was the busiest quarter and Third quarter the thinnest, but the spread was mild.

Mataró saw 1.986 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter482
Second quarter500
Third quarter444
Fourth quarter560

What the town hall charges every year

At 86.662 € per dwelling, the Mataró cadastral base is high enough that the rate matters.

Land classed as rural is taxed at 0,633 %.

Mataró sets its urban IBI at 0,696 %, a little above what most town halls charge.

A cadastral value of 180.000 € taxed at 0,696 % gives 1.253 €, 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.

Appraised values and what they imply

464 appraisals stand behind it, enough for the average to be stable.

New build commands 3.636,8 €/m² against 2.505,2 €/m² for older homes, a gap wide enough to be a different market.

At 2.548,9 €/m², Mataró appraisals sit above the national middle.

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