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The cost of buying a home in Lepe

At 54,09 % not a main residence, the holiday half of the stock is the larger half. Lepe is a town rather than a city, which in Huelva usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock. The appraised average of 1.842,6 €/m² is close to the ordinary Spanish level.

The one-off cost at signing

The Andalusia transfer tax applies to resale purchases in Lepe; a new build is charged VAT and stamp duty instead. The Andalusia rate is 7 %, around the middle of the Spanish range.

Transfer tax on a resale purchase, at three illustrative prices
Purchase priceTransfer tax
200.000 €14.000 €
350.000 €24.500 €
600.000 €42.000 €

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 Andalusia

Put beside its neighbours

Compared with the rest of Huelva in this guide, it sits highest on share of dwellings that are not a main residence.

Country-wide, that share of the urban register that is housing is one of the third-dearest twentieth.

Judged only against Huelva, the year of the last cadastral revision here is the highest in the guide.

On a national view, its tax rate on construction work falls into the band just above the bottom quarter.

Ranked against its neighbours in Huelva, it holds the lowest rural property-tax rate of the group.

How it ranks

Across the country, the average cadastral value per home here belongs to the upper middle of the range.

Set against the other Huelva municipalities in this guide, it has the highest average cadastral value per home.

Measured against the whole batch, that number of notarised home sales sits in the exact middle of the range.

Ranked against its neighbours in Huelva, it holds the highest appraised value per square metre of the group.

Set the national range end to end and this population lands in the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

Put beside its neighbours

Of the Huelva municipalities covered here, this one comes lowest on total dwelling stock.

Measured against the whole batch, that count of registered residential units sits in the exact middle of the range.

Among the Huelva towns and cities covered here, it records the lowest number of appraisals behind the average.

Set the national range end to end and this urban property-tax rate lands in the exact middle of the range.

How active the market is

Notaries in Lepe recorded 706 home sales in the year, an active market.

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

Against 21.020 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter162
Second quarter200
Third quarter134
Fourth quarter210

What the market looks like

The figure comes from 159 appraisals in the quarter.

The average appraisal in Lepe is 1.842,6 €/m², an ordinary Spanish level.

A stock built largely for holidays

With 54,09 % of dwellings not a main home, Lepe is more holiday market than housing market.

Almost the whole register is housing: 21.020 residential units out of 30.841 urban ones.

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

How old the cadastral values are

The tax on construction work is 3,46 %, so a refurbishment budget should carry it.

The last general revision in Lepe was 2013, so cadastral values sit some way below market values.

The recurring yearly cost

Cadastral values in Lepe average 63.791 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

At 0,64 %, the Lepe urban IBI rate is an ordinary one.

The rural rate of 0,88 % is unusually close to the urban one.

A cadastral value of 180.000 € taxed at 0,64 % gives 1.152 €, 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.

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