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What buying in Arucas actually costs

At 1.627,7 €/m² the appraised average sits below the national middle. Second homes are a minority presence, at 18,35 % of the dwelling stock. Arucas sits in the size class where Las Palmas property still trades on local knowledge more than on portals.

The one-off cost at signing

The Canary Islands rate is 6,5 %, around the middle of the Spanish range. Buying an existing home in Arucas means paying the Canary Islands transfer tax on top of the price, not out of it.

Transfer tax on a resale purchase, at three illustrative prices
Purchase priceTransfer tax
200.000 €13.000 €
350.000 €22.750 €
600.000 €39.000 €

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 Canary Islands

Where it sits against the rest

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

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

On tax rate on construction work it is the fifth highest of the Las Palmas municipalities this guide covers.

Against every municipality in this guide, its average cadastral value per home lands in the band just inside the top fifth.

Take Las Palmas alone: among the municipalities here, its average cadastral value per home is the highest.

Where this one stands

Put beside the rest of the country, its number of notarised home sales belongs to the second-cheapest twentieth.

Line the Las Palmas municipalities in this guide up by share of dwellings that are not a main residence and this one is the fifth highest.

Measured against the whole batch, that share of the urban register that is housing sits in the band just below the top quarter.

On appraised value per square metre it is the second lowest of the Las Palmas municipalities this guide covers.

Across the country, the number of appraisals behind the average here belongs to the eighth twentieth from the bottom.

Where it sits against the rest

Of the Las Palmas municipalities covered here, this one comes fifth lowest on number of urban cadastral units.

Nationally, that total dwelling stock falls in the band just above the bottom quarter.

Ranked against its neighbours in Las Palmas, it holds the fifth lowest count of registered residential units of the group.

On a national view, its population falls into the band just below the middle.

The market in appraisal terms

It rests on 135 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

Arucas housing is appraised at 1.627,7 €/m² on average.

An ageing cadastral register

Arucas has not revalued since 2006, which is long enough for the gap to market values to be substantial.

The tax on construction work is 3,1 %, so a refurbishment budget should carry it.

What the housing stock is like

No rented share is available for Arucas: the census stops short of municipalities this size.

Almost the whole register is housing: 16.616 residential units out of 25.962 urban ones.

18,35 % of dwellings in Arucas are not a main residence — a normal proportion for an inland town.

The yearly bill, and why it is small here

Rural land is charged at 0,32 %, which is nominal.

At 83.709 € per dwelling, the Arucas cadastral base is high enough that the rate matters.

Arucas levies 0,41 % on urban property, one of the lowest IBI rates you will meet.

On 180.000 € of cadastral value the 0,41 % rate yields 738 €, 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.

How many homes change hands

Set against 16.616 residential units on the register, turnover is slow.

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

323 home sales went through the notaries in Arucas in the year — a quiet market.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter88
Second quarter69
Third quarter76
Fourth quarter90

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