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Rubí: purchase costs and the yearly bill

An appraised average of 2.457,8 €/m² puts this above the national middle. Almost nothing here is a second home: 11,07 % of dwellings are not somebody's main residence. Rubí is one of the larger municipalities of Barcelona, with a housing stock too varied to describe by a single average.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

On a Rubí resale the Catalonia transfer tax is the single largest item after the price itself. 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 ranks

Compared with the rest of Barcelona in this guide, it sits eleventh highest on population.

Against every municipality in this guide, its number of appraisals behind the average lands in the band just inside the top fifth.

Judged only against Barcelona, the share of dwellings that are not a main residence here is the eighteenth highest in the guide.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the number of notarised home sales is in the band just below the top quarter.

Within Barcelona, that is the thirteenth highest count of registered residential units among the municipalities this guide covers.

How it compares

Country-wide, that total dwelling stock is one of the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.

Take Barcelona alone: among the municipalities here, its number of urban cadastral units is the thirteenth highest.

Across the country, the urban property-tax rate here belongs to the band just inside the top fifth.

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

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

How it ranks

Set against the other Barcelona municipalities in this guide, it has the thirteenth lowest average cadastral value per home.

Across the country, the appraised value per square metre here belongs to the band just below the top quarter.

On tax rate on construction work it is the seventeenth highest of the Barcelona municipalities this guide covers.

Put beside the rest of the country, its rural property-tax rate belongs to the upper middle of the range.

A stock of homes people actually live in

The whole stock came to 32.476 dwellings at the census.

21,4 % of Rubí main homes are rented, above the national pattern.

Only 11,07 % of Rubí dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

Appraised values and what they imply

The figure comes from 340 appraisals in the quarter.

Homes under five years old are appraised at 2.749,6 €/m² against 2.450,7 €/m² for older stock — a modest premium.

At 2.457,8 €/m², Rubí appraisals sit above the national middle.

The pace of sales

Against 31.964 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

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

Rubí saw 1.085 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter252
Second quarter315
Third quarter229
Fourth quarter289

What the town hall charges every year

Cadastral values in Rubí average 69.222 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

Rural land carries 0,758 %, close to the urban rate.

Rubí sets its urban IBI at 0,758 %, a little above what most town halls charge.

180.000 € of cadastral value at 0,758 % is 1.364 € a year, but the base is dated and a revision would change it sharply.

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.

The cadastral values are dated

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

The Rubí register dates from 2001; a future revision could move the yearly bill significantly even if the rate never changes.

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