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Buying in Fuenlabrada: tax, IBI and the market

Fuenlabrada is a city, and in Madrid that means its districts behave like separate markets that happen to share a town hall. At 2.913,5 €/m² appraisals are firmly in the expensive half of the country. Almost nothing here is a second home: 5,45 % 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 Fuenlabrada 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

Put beside its neighbours

Take Madrid alone: among the municipalities here, its population is the sixth highest.

Over the whole guide, the count of registered residential units recorded here falls within the third-dearest twentieth.

Take Madrid alone: among the municipalities here, its total dwelling stock is the sixth highest.

Set the national range end to end and this number of urban cadastral units lands in the third-dearest twentieth.

Judged only against Madrid, the number of appraisals behind the average here is the fourth highest in the guide.

How it ranks

Taking every municipality covered here together, the number of notarised home sales is in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Compared with the rest of Madrid in this guide, it sits seventh lowest on urban property-tax rate.

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

Among the Madrid towns and cities covered here, it records the fifth lowest average cadastral value per home.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the average cadastral value per home is in the band just inside the top fifth.

Put beside its neighbours

On appraised value per square metre it is the eleventh lowest of the Madrid municipalities this guide covers.

Country-wide, that premium a new build commands over an older home is one of the third-cheapest twentieth.

Ranked against its neighbours in Madrid, it holds the fifth lowest appraised value of an older home of the group.

Over the whole guide, the year of the last cadastral revision recorded here falls within the band just inside the top fifth.

A stock of homes people actually live in

13,37 % of main homes are rented in Fuenlabrada, below the national pattern.

Only 5,45 % of Fuenlabrada dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

The census counted 70.944 dwellings across the municipality.

The yearly bill, and why it is small here

Fuenlabrada levies 0,4 % on urban property, one of the lowest IBI rates you will meet.

Cadastral values in Fuenlabrada average 79.901 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

Rural land carries 0,726 %, close to the urban rate.

A cadastral value of 180.000 € taxed at 0,4 % gives 720 €, 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.

How many homes change hands

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

1.625 home sales went through the notaries in Fuenlabrada in the year — a quiet market.

With 71.566 residential units on the register, that is moderate turnover of the existing stock.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter406
Second quarter405
Third quarter333
Fourth quarter481

How old the cadastral values are

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

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

An expensive market, measured

513 appraisals stand behind it, enough for the average to be stable.

Fuenlabrada appraises at 2.913,5 €/m², expensive by national standards and rising faster than incomes.

New and old are appraised at much the same level, 3.034,4 €/m² against 2.911,7 €/m².

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