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Buying and owning a home in Calvià

43,52 % of the housing stock is not a main residence, a genuinely mixed town. Calvià is large enough for several distinct sub-markets to exist inside one Illes Balears municipality. At 5.290,5 €/m² this is one of the dearest municipalities in the country to buy into.

What the deed itself costs

Balearic Islands charges transfer tax on a progressive scale rather than a single rate, starting at 8 % and rising through bands as the value goes up; the table below applies the scale bracket by bracket. At the prices Calvià commands, the Balearic Islands transfer tax alone exceeds the whole purchase price of a flat in much of Spain.

Transfer tax on a resale purchase, at three illustrative prices
Purchase priceTransfer tax
200.000 €16.000 €
350.000 €28.000 €
600.000 €50.000 €

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 Balearic Islands

A sense of scale

Set against the other Illes Balears municipalities in this guide, it has the third highest appraised value per square metre.

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

Among the Illes Balears towns and cities covered here, it records the highest average cadastral value per home.

Country-wide, that share of dwellings that are not a main residence is one of the second-dearest twentieth.

Compared with the rest of Illes Balears in this guide, it sits second highest on total dwelling stock.

The comparison that matters

Across the country, the number of notarised home sales here belongs to the top quarter.

Ranked against its neighbours in Illes Balears, it holds the second highest number of urban cadastral units of the group.

Against every municipality in this guide, its count of registered residential units lands in the band just below the top quarter.

On rural property-tax rate it is the fourth lowest of the Illes Balears municipalities this guide covers.

Over the whole guide, the urban property-tax rate recorded here falls within the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

A sense of scale

Within Illes Balears, that is the third lowest share of the urban register that is housing among the municipalities this guide covers.

Put beside the rest of the country, its population belongs to the upper middle of the range.

Take Illes Balears alone: among the municipalities here, its year of the last cadastral revision is the fifth highest.

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

An ageing cadastral register

Calvià has not revalued since 2009, which is long enough for the gap to market values to be substantial.

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

A market at the top of the national range

The figure comes from 151 appraisals in the quarter.

At 5.290,5 €/m², Calvià is among the most expensive places in Spain by appraised value.

How active the market is

Notaries in Calvià recorded 1.209 home sales in the year, an active market.

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

Against 34.563 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter276
Second quarter312
Third quarter319
Fourth quarter302

A stock split between residents and visitors

At 26,69 % of main homes rented, Calvià has a rental sector large enough to set the tone of the market.

In total the census recorded 36.492 dwellings.

43,52 % of the Calvià stock is not a main residence, so resident and visitor demand compete for the same buildings.

What owning costs every year

The rural rate is 0,495 %, lower than the urban one.

The urban IBI rate in Calvià is 0,495 %, on the low side nationally.

The register values the average Calvià home at 124.472 €, which is where the yearly bill comes from.

On 180.000 € of cadastral value the 0,495 % rate yields 891 €, on a register that has not been refreshed in a long time.

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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