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The cost of buying a home in Molins de Rei

The ministry publishes no appraisal average for this municipality, so the market figures below stop at the notarial sales count. Molins de Rei is a town rather than a city, which in Barcelona usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock. Almost nothing here is a second home: 12,68 % 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 Molins de Rei; 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

Where this one stands

Ranked against its neighbours in Barcelona, it holds the eighth highest average cadastral value per home of the group.

Across the country, the average cadastral value per home here belongs to the third-dearest twentieth.

Within Barcelona, that is the ninth lowest share of the urban register that is housing among the municipalities this guide covers.

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

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

Measured against its neighbours

Over the whole guide, the total dwelling stock recorded here falls within the cheapest twentieth of them.

On count of registered residential units it is the sixth lowest of the Barcelona municipalities this guide covers.

Across the country, the number of notarised home sales here belongs to the second-cheapest twentieth.

Within Barcelona, that is the seventh lowest number of urban cadastral units among the municipalities this guide covers.

Set the national range end to end and this population lands in the second-cheapest twentieth.

The comparison that matters

Compared with the rest of Barcelona in this guide, it sits eleventh highest on tax rate on construction work.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the urban property-tax rate is in the band just above the middle.

Line the Barcelona municipalities in this guide up by year of the last cadastral revision and this one is the fifteenth highest.

What the market looks like

The ministry does not publish this figure for Molins de Rei, so it is stated here as not available rather than estimated.

How many homes change hands

With 11.003 residential units on the register, that is moderate turnover of the existing stock.

319 home sales went through the notaries in Molins de Rei in the year — a quiet market.

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

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter98
Second quarter75
Third quarter71
Fourth quarter75

An ageing cadastral register

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

Molins de Rei has not revalued since 2006, which is long enough for the gap to market values to be substantial.

A stock of homes people actually live in

11.400 dwellings were counted at the census.

Only 12,68 % of Molins de Rei dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

11.003 of 20.204 urban units are residential, a housing-led register.

The recurring yearly cost

At 101.546 € per dwelling, the Molins de Rei cadastral base is high enough that the rate matters.

At 0,65 %, the Molins de Rei urban IBI rate is an ordinary one.

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

On 180.000 € of cadastral value the 0,65 % rate yields 1.170 €, 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.

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