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The cost of buying a home in Sant Josep de sa Talaia

The ministry publishes no appraisal average for this municipality, so the market figures below stop at the notarial sales count. Roughly a third of dwellings, 29,38 %, are not a main residence. Sant Josep de sa Talaia is a town rather than a city, which in Illes Balears usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock.

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. The Balearic Islands transfer tax applies to resale purchases in Sant Josep de sa Talaia; 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 €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

Put beside its neighbours

Take Illes Balears alone: among the municipalities here, its average cadastral value per home is the fourth highest.

Against every municipality in this guide, its average cadastral value per home lands in the second-dearest twentieth.

Within Illes Balears, that is the lowest rural property-tax rate among the municipalities this guide covers.

Across the country, the urban property-tax rate here belongs to the cheapest twentieth of them.

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

How it ranks

Against every municipality in this guide, its share of dwellings that are not a main residence lands in the band just below the top quarter.

Line the Illes Balears municipalities in this guide up by number of notarised home sales and this one is the third lowest.

Country-wide, that number of urban cadastral units is one of the bottom quarter.

Take Illes Balears alone: among the municipalities here, its count of registered residential units is the fifth lowest.

Across the country, the year of the last cadastral revision here belongs to the band just below the middle.

Against the rest of the province

Take Illes Balears alone: among the municipalities here, its total dwelling stock is the fourth lowest.

Put beside the rest of the country, its population belongs to the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

Take Illes Balears alone: among the municipalities here, its tax rate on construction work is the fifth highest.

What the market looks like

The ministry does not publish this figure for Sant Josep de sa Talaia, so it is stated here as not available rather than estimated.

How many homes change hands

With 14.699 residential units on the register, that is moderate turnover of the existing stock.

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

350 home sales went through the notaries in Sant Josep de sa Talaia in the year — a quiet market.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter67
Second quarter98
Third quarter70
Fourth quarter115

The cadastral values are dated

The Sant Josep de sa Talaia register dates from 2004; a future revision could move the yearly bill significantly even if the rate never changes.

Building work is taxed at 3,8 %, near the top of what town halls may charge.

The shape of the housing stock

In Sant Josep de sa Talaia, 29,38 % of dwellings are not a main home, enough for holiday demand to matter without dominating.

15.683 dwellings were counted at the census.

Almost the whole register is housing: 14.699 residential units out of 22.591 urban ones.

The yearly bill, and why it is small here

The register values the average Sant Josep de sa Talaia home at 116.840 €, which is where the yearly bill comes from.

Rural land is charged at 0,3 %, which is nominal.

Sant Josep de sa Talaia levies 0,4 % on urban property, one of the lowest IBI rates you will meet.

180.000 € of cadastral value at 0,4 % is 720 € 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.

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