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The cost of buying a home in Rota

58,1 % of dwellings are not a main residence, which is resort territory. At 2.795,5 €/m² appraisals are firmly in the expensive half of the country. Rota is a town rather than a city, which in Cádiz usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock.

The one-off cost at signing

The Andalusia rate is 7 %, around the middle of the Spanish range. At Rota price levels the Andalusia 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 €14.000 €
350.000 €24.500 €
600.000 €42.000 €

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 Andalusia

A sense of scale

Judged only against Cádiz, the share of dwellings that are not a main residence here is the highest in the guide.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the urban property-tax rate is in the third-dearest twentieth.

Within Cádiz, that is the third lowest year of the last cadastral revision among the municipalities this guide covers.

Country-wide, that tax rate on construction work is one of the band just above the bottom quarter.

Compared with the rest of Cádiz in this guide, it sits second highest on appraised value per square metre.

The comparison that matters

Set the national range end to end and this count of registered residential units lands in the upper middle of the range.

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

Set the national range end to end and this average cadastral value per home lands in the bottom quarter.

Take Cádiz alone: among the municipalities here, its total dwelling stock is the fourth lowest.

Measured against the whole batch, that number of urban cadastral units sits in the band just above the middle.

A sense of scale

Judged only against Cádiz, the number of appraisals behind the average here is the second lowest in the guide.

Across the country, the population here belongs to the third-cheapest twentieth.

Take Cádiz 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 number of notarised home sales belongs to the lower middle of the range.

The pace of sales

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

Set against 27.483 residential units on the register, turnover is slow.

Rota saw 542 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter161
Second quarter123
Third quarter109
Fourth quarter149

Resort housing, measured

58,1 % of Rota dwellings are not a main residence, which changes everything from service charges to winter opening hours.

Tenure is published only for the larger municipalities and the provincial capitals, which leaves Rota out.

26.868 dwellings were counted at the census.

An expensive market, measured

It rests on 123 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

Rota appraises at 2.795,5 €/m², expensive by national standards and rising faster than incomes.

A cadastral register left untouched for decades

Rota last revalued its cadastre in 1998, so today's rate is charged on a base from another era — the revision risk is real.

The tax on construction work is 3,4 %, so a refurbishment budget should carry it.

The yearly bill, which is not small here

Rural land carries 0,753 %, close to the urban rate.

The typical Rota home is on the register at 48.514 €, below the national middle.

The 0,859 % urban IBI rate in Rota is high by Spanish standards.

The arithmetic is 180.000 € at 0,859 %, or 1.546 € 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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