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Buying and owning a home in Arganda del Rey

Arganda del Rey is large enough for several distinct sub-markets to exist inside one Madrid municipality. At 2.613,8 €/m² appraisals are firmly in the expensive half of the country. Almost nothing here is a second home: 8,95 % of dwellings are not somebody's main residence.

What you pay once, at the deed

Community of Madrid charges 6 %, one of the lighter rates in the country. At Arganda del Rey price levels the Community of Madrid transfer tax is worth several months of most household budgets, so it belongs in the offer, not after it.

Transfer tax on a resale purchase, at three illustrative prices
Purchase priceTransfer tax
200.000 €12.000 €
350.000 €21.000 €
600.000 €36.000 €

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 Community of Madrid

Where this one stands

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

Over the whole guide, the average cadastral value per home recorded here falls within the third-dearest twentieth.

Among the Madrid towns and cities covered here, it records the fifteenth highest urban property-tax rate.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the share of dwellings that are not a main residence is in the second-cheapest twentieth.

Compared with the rest of Madrid in this guide, it sits thirteenth lowest on population.

Measured against its neighbours

On a national view, its appraised value per square metre falls into the top quarter.

Ranked against its neighbours in Madrid, it holds the thirteenth highest rural property-tax rate of the group.

On a national view, its premium a new build commands over an older home falls into the lower middle of the range.

Among the Madrid towns and cities covered here, it records the eleventh lowest share of the urban register that is housing.

Country-wide, that number of notarised home sales is one of the exact middle of the range.

Where this one stands

Ranked against its neighbours in Madrid, it holds the tenth lowest number of appraisals behind the average of the group.

Across the country, the tax rate on construction work here belongs to the band just inside the top fifth.

On count of registered residential units it is the fourteenth lowest of the Madrid municipalities this guide covers.

Over the whole guide, the number of urban cadastral units recorded here falls within the exact middle of the range.

The cadastral values are dated

The Arganda del Rey register dates from 2005; a future revision could move the yearly bill significantly even if the rate never changes.

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

What owning costs every year

The urban IBI rate in Arganda del Rey is 0,44 %, on the low side nationally.

At 101.888 € per dwelling, the Arganda del Rey cadastral base is high enough that the rate matters.

The rural rate of 0,867 % is unusually close to the urban one.

180.000 € of cadastral value at 0,44 % is 792 € 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.

How many homes change hands

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

Against 22.524 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

740 home sales went through the notaries in Arganda del Rey in the year — a quiet market.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter141
Second quarter189
Third quarter234
Fourth quarter176

A stock of homes people actually live in

Almost the whole register is housing: 22.524 residential units out of 37.367 urban ones.

20,57 % of Arganda del Rey main homes are rented, above the national pattern.

Only 8,95 % of Arganda del Rey dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

An expensive market, measured

Homes under five years old are appraised at 2.840,8 €/m² against 2.598,3 €/m² for older stock — a modest premium.

Arganda del Rey appraises at 2.613,8 €/m², expensive by national standards and rising faster than incomes.

The figure comes from 212 appraisals in the quarter.

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