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What buying in Azuqueca de Henares actually costs

Almost nothing here is a second home: 11,14 % of dwellings are not somebody's main residence. The appraised average of 2.120,3 €/m² is close to the ordinary Spanish level. Azuqueca de Henares sits in the size class where Guadalajara property still trades on local knowledge more than on portals.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

The Castilla-La Mancha transfer tax applies to resale purchases in Azuqueca de Henares; a new build is charged VAT and stamp duty instead. Castilla-La Mancha applies 9 %, among the highest transfer-tax rates in Spain.

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 Castilla-La Mancha

In context

Take Guadalajara alone: among the municipalities here, its share of dwellings that are not a main residence is the lowest.

Set the national range end to end and this year of the last cadastral revision lands in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Compared with the rest of Guadalajara in this guide, it sits lowest on average cadastral value per home.

Put beside the rest of the country, its average cadastral value per home belongs to the band just below the top quarter.

Within Guadalajara, that is the highest rural property-tax rate among the municipalities this guide covers.

Put beside its neighbours

Across the country, the urban property-tax rate here belongs to the eighth twentieth from the bottom.

Set against the other Guadalajara municipalities in this guide, it has the lowest total dwelling stock.

Measured against the whole batch, that number of appraisals behind the average sits in the lower middle of the range.

Among the Guadalajara towns and cities covered here, it records the lowest number of urban cadastral units.

Country-wide, that count of registered residential units is one of the bottom quarter.

In context

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

Nationally, that tax rate on construction work falls in the exact middle of the range.

Judged only against Guadalajara, the appraised value per square metre here is the highest in the guide.

On a national view, its population falls into the lower middle of the range.

The recurring yearly cost

The rural rate of 0,846 % is unusually close to the urban one.

Cadastral values in Azuqueca de Henares average 70.413 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

At 0,585 %, the Azuqueca de Henares urban IBI rate is an ordinary one.

A cadastral value of 180.000 € taxed at 0,585 % gives 1.053 €, though the register is old enough that real values have moved.

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 of homes people actually live in

Only 11,14 % of Azuqueca de Henares dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

Almost the whole register is housing: 14.377 residential units out of 22.706 urban ones.

The census put the total stock at 14.220 dwellings.

What the market looks like

It rests on 127 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

The average appraisal in Azuqueca de Henares is 2.120,3 €/m², an ordinary Spanish level.

How old the cadastral values are

Building work is taxed at 3,93 %, near the top of what town halls may charge.

The last general revision in Azuqueca de Henares was 2012, so cadastral values sit some way below market values.

The pace of sales

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

Azuqueca de Henares saw 600 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

Against 14.377 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter136
Second quarter134
Third quarter181
Fourth quarter149

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