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The cost of buying a home in Piélagos

Piélagos is a town rather than a city, which in Cantabria usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock. The ministry publishes no appraisal average for this municipality, so the market figures below stop at the notarial sales count. Second homes are a minority presence, at 25,57 % of the dwelling stock.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

Cantabria applies 9 %, among the highest transfer-tax rates in Spain. The Cantabria transfer tax applies to resale purchases in Piélagos; a new build is charged VAT and stamp duty instead.

Transfer tax on a resale purchase, at three illustrative prices
Purchase priceTransfer tax
200.000 €18.000 €
350.000 €31.500 €
600.000 €54.000 €

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 Cantabria

Where it sits against the rest

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

Across the country, the average cadastral value per home here belongs to the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Compared with the rest of Cantabria in this guide, it sits second highest on average cadastral value per home.

Over the whole guide, the year of the last cadastral revision recorded here falls within the second-dearest twentieth.

Line the Cantabria municipalities in this guide up by rural property-tax rate and this one is the lowest.

Where this one stands

Nationally, that urban property-tax rate falls in the bottom quarter.

Judged only against Cantabria, the share of the urban register that is housing here is the second highest in the guide.

Over the whole guide, the count of registered residential units recorded here falls within the second-cheapest twentieth.

Among the Cantabria towns and cities covered here, it records the lowest total dwelling stock.

Set the national range end to end and this number of urban cadastral units lands in the third-cheapest twentieth.

A sense of scale

On number of notarised home sales it is the second lowest of the Cantabria municipalities this guide covers.

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

Among the Cantabria towns and cities covered here, it records the second highest share of dwellings that are not a main residence.

What the housing stock is like

12.919 dwellings were counted at the census.

25,57 % of dwellings in Piélagos are not a main residence — a normal proportion for an inland town.

11.981 of 20.297 urban units are residential, a housing-led register.

The pace of sales

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

Piélagos saw 397 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

Against 11.981 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter127
Second quarter91
Third quarter101
Fourth quarter78

What the market looks like

The ministry does not publish this figure for Piélagos, so it is stated here as not available rather than estimated.

The age of the cadastral register

The tax on construction work is 2,5 %, so a refurbishment budget should carry it.

Piélagos last revalued in 2014, long enough ago for the register to lag the market a little.

The annual cost of holding the property

Piélagos charges 0,5 % on urban property, modestly below the common level.

At 89.477 € per dwelling, the Piélagos cadastral base is high enough that the rate matters.

The rural rate is 0,49 %, lower than the urban one.

Take 180.000 € of cadastral value: at 0,5 % the yearly bill is 900 €.

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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