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The cost of buying a home in Premià de Mar

Premià de Mar is a town rather than a city, which in Barcelona usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock. At 2.920,1 €/m² appraisals are firmly in the expensive half of the country. Almost nothing here is a second home: 11,67 % of dwellings are not somebody's main residence.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

At Premià de Mar price levels the Catalonia transfer tax is worth several months of most household budgets, so it belongs in the offer, not after 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

Put beside its neighbours

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

Against every municipality in this guide, its share of dwellings that are not a main residence lands in the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

Compared with the rest of Barcelona in this guide, it sits seventh highest on rural property-tax rate.

Country-wide, that appraised value per square metre is one of the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

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

How it ranks

Taking every municipality covered here together, the average cadastral value per home is in the top quarter.

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

On a national view, its share of the urban register that is housing falls into the top quarter.

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

Nationally, that number of appraisals behind the average falls in the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

Put beside its neighbours

Judged only against Barcelona, the total dwelling stock here is the seventh lowest in the guide.

Across the country, the number of urban cadastral units here belongs to the second-cheapest twentieth.

Of the Barcelona municipalities covered here, this one comes seventh lowest on count of registered residential units.

Nationally, that tax rate on construction work falls in the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.

Owning it: the annual charge

Premià de Mar applies 0,976 % to urban property, close to the statutory ceiling.

Rural property is charged 0,966 %, which is steep for land.

Cadastral values in Premià de Mar average 76.155 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

A cadastral value of 180.000 € taxed at 0,976 % gives 1.757 €, 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.

A stock of homes people actually live in

12.313 dwellings were counted at the census.

Almost the whole register is housing: 12.204 residential units out of 18.789 urban ones.

Only 11,67 % of Premià de Mar dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

An expensive market, measured

Premià de Mar appraises at 2.920,1 €/m², expensive by national standards and rising faster than incomes.

It rests on 106 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

How old the cadastral values are

The last general revision in Premià de Mar 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.

How many homes change hands

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

With 12.204 residential units on the register, that is moderate turnover of the existing stock.

312 home sales went through the notaries in Premià de Mar in the year — a quiet market.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter70
Second quarter78
Third quarter70
Fourth quarter94

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