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What buying in Plasencia actually costs

Plasencia sits in the size class where Cáceres property still trades on local knowledge more than on portals. Roughly a third of dwellings, 26,3 %, are not a main residence. Homes here are appraised at 1.084,6 €/m², at the bottom of the national range.

What the deed itself costs

Extremadura charges transfer tax on a progressive scale rather than a single rate, starting at 8 % and rising through bands as the value goes up; the table below applies the scale bracket by bracket. In Plasencia the transfer tax is often larger than every other closing cost put together, because the tax scales with the price and the fees largely do not.

Transfer tax on a resale purchase, at three illustrative prices
Purchase priceTransfer tax
200.000 €16.000 €
350.000 €28.000 €
600.000 €52.800 €

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 Extremadura

Where it sits against the rest

Take Cáceres alone: among the municipalities here, its year of the last cadastral revision is the lowest.

Set the national range end to end and this appraised value per square metre lands in the third-cheapest twentieth.

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

Against every municipality in this guide, its average cadastral value per home lands in the second-cheapest twentieth.

Of the Cáceres municipalities covered here, this one comes lowest on tax rate on construction work.

Where this one stands

Country-wide, that number of appraisals behind the average is one of the lower middle of the range.

Take Cáceres alone: among the municipalities here, its urban property-tax rate is the lowest.

Over the whole guide, the share of dwellings that are not a main residence recorded here falls within the upper middle of the range.

Take Cáceres alone: among the municipalities here, its rural property-tax rate is the lowest.

Measured against the whole batch, that count of registered residential units sits in the exact middle of the range.

Where it sits against the rest

Ranked against its neighbours in Cáceres, it holds the lowest total dwelling stock of the group.

Against every municipality in this guide, its number of urban cadastral units lands in the exact middle of the range.

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

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

The pace of sales

With 22.058 residential units on the register, that is moderate turnover of the existing stock.

Plasencia saw 636 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

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

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter162
Second quarter189
Third quarter128
Fourth quarter157

The shape of the housing stock

The census put the total stock at 22.443 dwellings.

No rented share is available for Plasencia: the census stops short of municipalities this size.

In Plasencia, 26,3 % of dwellings are not a main home, enough for holiday demand to matter without dominating.

What the market looks like at the cheap end

It rests on 125 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

Appraisers value free-market housing in Plasencia at 1.084,6 €/m², which puts a whole flat within reach of a modest deposit.

A cadastral register left untouched for decades

Plasencia last revalued its cadastre in 1995, so today's rate is charged on a base from another era — the revision risk is real.

Building work is taxed at 3,59 %, near the top of what town halls may charge.

The recurring yearly cost

At 0,6 %, the Plasencia urban IBI rate is an ordinary one.

Rural land carries 0,678 %, close to the urban rate.

A cadastral value of 41.178 € per residential unit keeps the Plasencia bill modest whatever the rate.

The arithmetic is 180.000 € at 0,6 %, or 1.080 € a year — on a register so old that the rate tells you little about the eventual bill.

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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