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Buying in Terrassa: tax, IBI and the market

Terrassa is a city, and in Barcelona that means its districts behave like separate markets that happen to share a town hall. An appraised average of 2.300,6 €/m² puts this above the national middle. Almost nothing here is a second home: 16,16 % of dwellings are not somebody's main residence.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

On a Terrassa 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

A sense of scale

Of the Barcelona municipalities covered here, this one comes second highest on number of notarised home sales.

Country-wide, that number of appraisals behind the average is one of the dearest twentieth of them all.

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

Over the whole guide, the total dwelling stock recorded here falls within the second-dearest twentieth.

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

The comparison that matters

On a national view, its number of urban cadastral units falls into the second-dearest twentieth.

On year of the last cadastral revision it is the fourth highest of the Barcelona municipalities this guide covers.

Set the national range end to end and this rural property-tax rate lands in the second-dearest twentieth.

Take Barcelona alone: among the municipalities here, its urban property-tax rate is the fifteenth highest.

On a national view, its share of dwellings that are not a main residence falls into the band just above the bottom quarter.

A sense of scale

Set against the other Barcelona municipalities in this guide, it has the seventh lowest appraised value per square metre.

Against every municipality in this guide, its tax rate on construction work lands in the band just below the top quarter.

Compared with the rest of Barcelona in this guide, it sits tenth lowest on average cadastral value per home.

Put beside the rest of the country, its average cadastral value per home belongs to the band just above the middle.

How active the market is

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

99.158 residential units are registered, and a large slice of them turns over annually.

Notaries in Terrassa recorded 4.466 home sales in the year, an active market.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter1.327
Second quarter1.112
Third quarter893
Fourth quarter1.134

Appraised values and what they imply

At 2.300,6 €/m², Terrassa appraisals sit above the national middle.

With 1.106 appraisals behind it, the quarterly average barely moves on individual transactions.

Homes under five years old are appraised at 2.577,9 €/m² against 2.290,0 €/m² for older stock — a modest premium.

How recent the cadastral values are

The Terrassa cadastre was revised in 2018; the base is current enough that the next revision is not imminent.

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

The yearly bill, which is not small here

The 0,769 % urban IBI rate in Terrassa is high by Spanish standards.

Rural property is charged 1,01 %, which is steep for land.

Cadastral values in Terrassa average 63.652 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

A cadastral value of 180.000 € at 0,769 % comes to 1.383 € a year; the register is recent enough for the arithmetic to hold.

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

22,49 % of Terrassa main homes are rented, above the national pattern.

Only 16,16 % of Terrassa dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

The census counted 101.134 dwellings across the municipality.

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