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The cost of buying a home in Vinaròs

43,81 % of the housing stock is not a main residence, a genuinely mixed town. Vinaròs is a town rather than a city, which in Castellón usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock. At 1.632,0 €/m² the appraised average sits below the national middle.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

Valencian Community applies 9 %, among the highest transfer-tax rates in Spain. Buying an existing home in Vinaròs means paying the Valencian Community transfer tax on top of the price, not out of it.

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

Put beside its neighbours

Within Castellón, that is the highest share of dwellings that are not a main residence among the municipalities this guide covers.

Measured against the whole batch, that average cadastral value per home sits in the third-cheapest twentieth.

Take Castellón alone: among the municipalities here, its average cadastral value per home is the fourth lowest.

Put beside the rest of the country, its urban property-tax rate belongs to the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Take Castellón alone: among the municipalities here, its tax rate on construction work is the third highest.

How it ranks

On a national view, its year of the last cadastral revision falls into the lower middle of the range.

On number of appraisals behind the average it is the second lowest of the Castellón municipalities this guide covers.

Set the national range end to end and this appraised value per square metre lands in the eighth twentieth from the bottom.

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

Measured against the whole batch, that rural property-tax rate sits in the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.

Put beside its neighbours

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

On a national view, its number of notarised home sales falls into the exact middle of the range.

Within Castellón, that is the third highest number of urban cadastral units among the municipalities this guide covers.

Put beside the rest of the country, its count of registered residential units belongs to the exact middle of the range.

The cadastral values are dated

The Vinaròs register dates from 2001; a future revision could move the yearly bill significantly even if the rate never changes.

Building work is taxed at 3,5 %, near the top of what town halls may charge.

The market in appraisal terms

It rests on 93 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

Vinaròs housing is appraised at 1.632,0 €/m² on average.

How active the market is

Notaries in Vinaròs recorded 685 home sales in the year, an active market.

Against 21.138 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Second quarter was the busiest quarter and Third quarter the thinnest, but the spread was mild.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter165
Second quarter188
Third quarter148
Fourth quarter184

The yearly bill, which is not small here

The rural rate of 0,772 % is unusually close to the urban one.

The 0,772 % urban IBI rate in Vinaròs is high by Spanish standards.

A cadastral value of 42.742 € per residential unit keeps the Vinaròs bill modest whatever the rate.

180.000 € of cadastral value at 0,772 % is 1.390 € a year, but the base is dated and a revision would change it sharply.

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.

A stock split between residents and visitors

43,81 % of the Vinaròs stock is not a main residence, so resident and visitor demand compete for the same buildings.

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

Almost the whole register is housing: 21.138 residential units out of 35.221 urban ones.

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