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What buying in Blanes actually costs

Blanes sits in the size class where Girona property still trades on local knowledge more than on portals. The appraised average of 2.067,5 €/m² is close to the ordinary Spanish level. 36,34 % of the housing stock is not a main residence, a genuinely mixed town.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

Catalonia charges transfer tax on a progressive scale rather than a single rate, starting at 10 % and rising through bands as the value goes up; the table below applies the scale bracket by bracket. The Catalonia transfer tax applies to resale purchases in Blanes; 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 €20.000 €
350.000 €35.000 €
600.000 €60.000 €

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 Catalonia

A sense of scale

Of the Girona municipalities covered here, this one comes highest on urban property-tax rate.

Over the whole guide, the year of the last cadastral revision recorded here falls within the cheapest twentieth of them.

Within Girona, that is the lowest average cadastral value per home among the municipalities this guide covers.

Over the whole guide, the average cadastral value per home recorded here falls within the cheapest twentieth of them.

Compared with the rest of Girona in this guide, it sits second highest on rural property-tax rate.

The comparison that matters

Across the country, the share of dwellings that are not a main residence here belongs to the third-dearest twentieth.

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

Nationally, that count of registered residential units falls in the band just above the middle.

Line the Girona municipalities in this guide up by total dwelling stock and this one is the second highest.

Put beside the rest of the country, its number of urban cadastral units belongs to the exact middle of the range.

A sense of scale

Among the Girona towns and cities covered here, it records the third highest number of notarised home sales.

On a national view, its tax rate on construction work falls into the top quarter.

Compared with the rest of Girona in this guide, it sits third lowest on population.

Nationally, that number of appraisals behind the average falls in the band just below the middle.

A cadastral register left untouched for decades

The construction tax is 4 %, the statutory maximum, which matters if you plan to renovate.

Blanes last revalued its cadastre in 1990, so today's rate is charged on a base from another era — the revision risk is real.

What the market looks like

The figure comes from 155 appraisals in the quarter.

The average appraisal in Blanes is 2.067,5 €/m², an ordinary Spanish level.

Owning it: the annual charge

Blanes applies 1,23 % to urban property, close to the statutory ceiling.

A cadastral value of 35.940 € per residential unit keeps the Blanes bill modest whatever the rate.

Rural property is charged 1 %, which is steep for land.

The arithmetic is 180.000 € at 1,23 %, or 2.214 € 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 pace of sales

With 25.305 residential units on the register, that is moderate turnover of the existing stock.

Blanes saw 734 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

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

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter163
Second quarter220
Third quarter180
Fourth quarter171

A stock split between residents and visitors

The census put the total stock at 25.589 dwellings.

36,34 % of the Blanes stock is not a main residence, so resident and visitor demand compete for the same buildings.

Almost the whole register is housing: 25.305 residential units out of 38.783 urban ones.

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