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Buying and owning a home in Collado Villalba

Almost nothing here is a second home: 16,62 % of dwellings are not somebody's main residence. Collado Villalba is large enough for several distinct sub-markets to exist inside one Madrid municipality. At 2.879,8 €/m² appraisals are firmly in the expensive half of the country.

What you pay once, at the deed

At Collado Villalba 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. Community of Madrid charges 6 %, one of the lighter rates in the country.

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

The comparison that matters

On average cadastral value per home it is the sixth lowest of the Madrid municipalities this guide covers.

Put beside the rest of the country, its average cadastral value per home belongs to the band just inside the top fifth.

Judged only against Madrid, the appraised value per square metre here is the ninth lowest in the guide.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the population is in the band just below the top quarter.

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

Where it sits against the rest

Taking every municipality covered here together, the count of registered residential units is in the upper middle of the range.

Ranked against its neighbours in Madrid, it holds the seventeenth lowest number of urban cadastral units of the group.

Across the country, the share of dwellings that are not a main residence here belongs to the band just above the bottom quarter.

Within Madrid, that is the seventeenth lowest total dwelling stock among the municipalities this guide covers.

Set the national range end to end and this number of notarised home sales lands in the upper middle of the range.

The comparison that matters

Line the Madrid municipalities in this guide up by year of the last cadastral revision and this one is the tenth highest.

Over the whole guide, the number of appraisals behind the average recorded here falls within the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.

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

Across the country, the urban property-tax rate here belongs to the band just below the middle.

The recurring yearly cost

Rural property pays 0,55 %.

At 0,6 %, the Collado Villalba urban IBI rate is an ordinary one.

At 81.483 € per dwelling, the Collado Villalba cadastral base is high enough that the rate matters.

A cadastral value of 180.000 € taxed at 0,6 % gives 1.080 €, 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.

An expensive market, measured

Collado Villalba appraises at 2.879,8 €/m², expensive by national standards and rising faster than incomes.

The figure comes from 225 appraisals in the quarter.

How old the cadastral values are

The last general revision in Collado Villalba was 2010, so cadastral values sit some way below market values.

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

A stock of homes people actually live in

23,33 % of Collado Villalba main homes are rented, above the national pattern.

Only 16,62 % of Collado Villalba dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

In total the census recorded 27.922 dwellings.

The pace of sales

The year was almost flat: First quarter was the busiest quarter and Second quarter the quietest, with little between them.

Collado Villalba saw 884 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

Against 28.220 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter236
Second quarter207
Third quarter234
Fourth quarter207

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