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Buying and owning a home in Viladecans

At 3.065,4 €/m² appraisals are firmly in the expensive half of the country. Viladecans is large enough for several distinct sub-markets to exist inside one Barcelona municipality. Almost nothing here is a second home: 8,2 % of dwellings are not somebody's main residence.

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 Viladecans 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

Where this one stands

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

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

On premium a new build commands over an older home it is the third highest of the Barcelona municipalities this guide covers.

Put beside the rest of the country, its appraised value of a home under five years old belongs to the third-dearest twentieth.

Of the Barcelona municipalities covered here, this one comes thirteenth lowest on share of dwellings that are not a main residence.

Measured against its neighbours

Against every municipality in this guide, its rural property-tax rate lands in the second-dearest twentieth.

Of the Barcelona municipalities covered here, this one comes ninth highest on appraised value per square metre.

Country-wide, that number of notarised home sales is one of the top quarter.

Compared with the rest of Barcelona in this guide, it sits tenth highest on number of appraisals behind the average.

Put beside the rest of the country, its share of the urban register that is housing belongs to the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

Where this one stands

Ranked against its neighbours in Barcelona, it holds the fifteenth highest population of the group.

Nationally, that appraised value of an older home falls in the top quarter.

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

Nationally, that count of registered residential units falls in the upper middle of the range.

An ageing cadastral register

Viladecans has not revalued since 2006, which is long enough for the gap to market values to be substantial.

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

The pace of sales

Against 26.841 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Viladecans saw 1.195 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

Fourth quarter carried far more deeds than First quarter, so timing an offer against the calendar is worth something here.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter203
Second quarter350
Third quarter286
Fourth quarter356

A stock of homes people actually live in

26.841 of 47.222 urban units are residential, a housing-led register.

Only 8,2 % of Viladecans dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

Renting accounts for 15,27 % of main homes in Viladecans, close to the Spanish norm.

The recurring yearly cost

At 98.477 € per dwelling, the Viladecans cadastral base is high enough that the rate matters.

At 0,652 %, the Viladecans urban IBI rate is an ordinary one.

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

On 180.000 € of cadastral value the 0,652 % rate yields 1.174 €, 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 expensive market, measured

The figure comes from 315 appraisals in the quarter.

Viladecans appraises at 3.065,4 €/m², expensive by national standards and rising faster than incomes.

New build commands 3.930,6 €/m² against 3.010,5 €/m² for older homes, a gap wide enough to be a different market.

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