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The cost of buying a home in Almassora

Roughly a third of dwellings, 31,5 %, are not a main residence. The average appraisal is 1.223,4 €/m², which is cheap by Spanish standards. Almassora is a town rather than a city, which in Castellón usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

Valencian Community applies 9 %, among the highest transfer-tax rates in Spain. The transfer tax set by Valencian Community is the one closing cost in Almassora that nobody can negotiate.

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 Valencian Community

How it compares

Judged only against Castellón, the rural property-tax rate here is the fourth highest in the guide.

Nationally, that tax rate on construction work falls in the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

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

Country-wide, that appraised value per square metre is one of the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

Of the Castellón municipalities covered here, this one comes third lowest on average cadastral value per home.

Against the rest of the province

Put beside the rest of the country, its average cadastral value per home belongs to the third-cheapest twentieth.

Of the Castellón municipalities covered here, this one comes second lowest on share of the urban register that is housing.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the share of dwellings that are not a main residence is in the band just inside the top fifth.

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

Taking every municipality covered here together, the total dwelling stock is in the bottom quarter.

How it compares

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

Over the whole guide, the count of registered residential units recorded here falls within the band just above the bottom quarter.

Within Castellón, that is the second lowest population among the municipalities this guide covers.

Across the country, the number of notarised home sales here belongs to the exact middle of the range.

A cadastral register left untouched for decades

Almassora last revalued its cadastre in 1996, so today's rate is charged on a base from another era — the revision risk is real.

The tax on construction work is 3,2 %, so a refurbishment budget should carry it.

The recurring yearly cost

A cadastral value of 42.227 € per residential unit keeps the Almassora bill modest whatever the rate.

Rural land is charged at 0,3 %, which is nominal.

At 0,588 %, the Almassora urban IBI rate is an ordinary one.

The arithmetic is 180.000 € at 0,588 %, or 1.058 € 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.

The shape of the housing stock

In Almassora, 31,5 % of dwellings are not a main home, enough for holiday demand to matter without dominating.

15.657 dwellings were counted at the census.

15.638 of 27.141 urban units are residential, a housing-led register.

What homes are appraised at

The appraised average in Almassora is 1.223,4 €/m², cheap enough that transaction costs are a large share of the total outlay.

It rests on 143 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

How active the market is

Notaries in Almassora recorded 701 home sales in the year, an active market.

Against 15.638 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

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

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter219
Second quarter171
Third quarter170
Fourth quarter141

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