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What a purchase in Santa Coloma de Gramenet costs beyond the price

Almost nothing here is a second home: 8,15 % of dwellings are not somebody's main residence. Santa Coloma de Gramenet is among the biggest places in Barcelona, and its neighbourhoods diverge enough that a municipal average hides more than it shows. At 2.607,8 €/m² appraisals are firmly in the expensive half of the country.

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

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

Against the rest of the province

Judged only against Barcelona, the population here is the seventh highest in the guide.

Against every municipality in this guide, its number of appraisals behind the average lands in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Take Barcelona alone: among the municipalities here, its total dwelling stock is the seventh highest.

Over the whole guide, the count of registered residential units recorded here falls within the band just inside the top fifth.

Ranked against its neighbours in Barcelona, it holds the seventh highest number of urban cadastral units of the group.

In context

Measured against the whole batch, that number of notarised home sales sits in the band just inside the top fifth.

Set against the other Barcelona municipalities in this guide, it has the twelfth lowest share of dwellings that are not a main residence.

Against every municipality in this guide, its year of the last cadastral revision lands in the third-dearest twentieth.

Judged only against Barcelona, the average cadastral value per home here is the eighteenth lowest in the guide.

Put beside the rest of the country, its average cadastral value per home belongs to the top quarter.

Against the rest of the province

Set against the other Barcelona municipalities in this guide, it has the sixteenth highest rural property-tax rate.

Nationally, that appraised value per square metre falls in the top quarter.

Among the Barcelona towns and cities covered here, it records the sixth highest share of the urban register that is housing.

Put beside the rest of the country, its tax rate on construction work belongs to the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.

An expensive market, measured

Santa Coloma de Gramenet appraises at 2.607,8 €/m², expensive by national standards and rising faster than incomes.

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

Homes under five years old are appraised at 2.928,6 €/m² against 2.605,3 €/m² for older stock — a modest premium.

How many homes change hands

1.407 home sales went through the notaries in Santa Coloma de Gramenet in the year — a quiet market.

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

Against 46.365 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter332
Second quarter368
Third quarter297
Fourth quarter410

How old the cadastral values are

The last general revision in Santa Coloma de Gramenet 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.

A stock of homes people actually live in

Only 8,15 % of Santa Coloma de Gramenet dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

23,69 % of Santa Coloma de Gramenet main homes are rented, above the national pattern.

48.100 dwellings in total were counted.

The recurring yearly cost

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

At 0,609 %, the Santa Coloma de Gramenet urban IBI rate is an ordinary one.

Cadastral values in Santa Coloma de Gramenet average 74.791 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

A cadastral value of 180.000 € taxed at 0,609 % gives 1.096 €, 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.

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