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The cost of buying a home in Sant Vicenç dels Horts

Almost nothing here is a second home: 13,18 % of dwellings are not somebody's main residence. An appraised average of 2.531,9 €/m² puts this above the national middle. Sant Vicenç dels Horts is a town rather than a city, which in Barcelona usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

On a Sant Vicenç dels Horts 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

Put beside its neighbours

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

Nationally, that average cadastral value per home falls in the second-dearest twentieth.

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

Across the country, the urban property-tax rate here belongs to the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

Within Barcelona, that is the tenth lowest rural property-tax rate among the municipalities this guide covers.

How it ranks

Across the country, the share of dwellings that are not a main residence here belongs to the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

Of the Barcelona municipalities covered here, this one comes third lowest on number of urban cadastral units.

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

Judged only against Barcelona, the count of registered residential units here is the fourth lowest in the guide.

Set the national range end to end and this total dwelling stock lands in the cheapest twentieth of them.

Put beside its neighbours

Within Barcelona, that is the fifth lowest number of notarised home sales among the municipalities this guide covers.

Put beside the rest of the country, its number of appraisals behind the average belongs to the lower middle of the range.

Set against the other Barcelona municipalities in this guide, it has the thirteenth lowest tax rate on construction work.

Nationally, that population falls in the third-cheapest twentieth.

Appraised values and what they imply

At 2.531,9 €/m², Sant Vicenç dels Horts appraisals sit above the national middle.

It rests on 129 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

How many homes change hands

335 home sales went through the notaries in Sant Vicenç dels Horts in the year — a quiet market.

Against 10.856 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

The year was almost flat: First quarter was the busiest quarter and Third quarter the quietest, with little between them.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter87
Second quarter83
Third quarter81
Fourth quarter84

What owning costs every year

Rural property pays 0,52 %.

The register values the average Sant Vicenç dels Horts home at 125.988 €, which is where the yearly bill comes from.

The urban IBI rate in Sant Vicenç dels Horts is 0,487 %, on the low side nationally.

On 180.000 € of cadastral value the 0,487 % rate yields 877 €, 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.

An ageing cadastral register

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

Sant Vicenç dels Horts 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

Only 13,18 % of Sant Vicenç dels Horts dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

11.530 dwellings were counted at the census.

Almost the whole register is housing: 10.856 residential units out of 16.037 urban ones.

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