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Buying and owning a home in Vic

The appraised average of 2.078,9 €/m² is close to the ordinary Spanish level. Vic is large enough for several distinct sub-markets to exist inside one Barcelona municipality. Almost nothing here is a second home: 14,4 % of dwellings are not somebody's main residence.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

The Catalonia transfer tax applies to resale purchases in Vic; a new build is charged VAT and stamp duty instead. 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 compares

Take Barcelona alone: among the municipalities here, its share of the urban register that is housing is the lowest.

Put beside the rest of the country, its rural property-tax rate belongs to the second-cheapest twentieth.

Within Barcelona, that is the ninth highest share of dwellings that are not a main residence among the municipalities this guide covers.

Country-wide, that average cadastral value per home is one of the band just below the top quarter.

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

Against the rest of the province

Put beside the rest of the country, its urban property-tax rate belongs to the top quarter.

Within Barcelona, that is the seventeenth highest number of urban cadastral units among the municipalities this guide covers.

Against every municipality in this guide, its population lands in the band just above the middle.

Among the Barcelona towns and cities covered here, it records the ninth lowest tax rate on construction work.

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

How it compares

Set against the other Barcelona municipalities in this guide, it has the sixteenth lowest year of the last cadastral revision.

Country-wide, that number of notarised home sales is one of the lower middle of the range.

Line the Barcelona municipalities in this guide up by appraised value per square metre and this one is the fifth lowest.

Across the country, the count of registered residential units here belongs to the band just below the middle.

How many homes change hands

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

554 home sales went through the notaries in Vic in the year — a quiet market.

With 19.455 residential units on the register, that is moderate turnover of the existing stock.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter118
Second quarter154
Third quarter115
Fourth quarter167

The cadastral values are dated

The Vic register dates from 2005; a future revision could move the yearly bill significantly even if the rate never changes.

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

What the market looks like

The average appraisal in Vic is 2.078,9 €/m², an ordinary Spanish level.

It rests on 142 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

A stock of homes people actually live in

Only 14,4 % of Vic dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

The register holds 42.852 urban units, of which 19.455 are residential.

The census tenure table does not reach Vic, so the owner-renter split is stated here as not available.

What the town hall charges every year

Rural land is charged at 0,355 %, which is nominal.

Vic sets its urban IBI at 0,728 %, a little above what most town halls charge.

Cadastral values in Vic average 70.933 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

180.000 € of cadastral value at 0,728 % is 1.310 € 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.

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