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Pozuelo de Alarcón: purchase costs and the yearly bill

Pozuelo de Alarcón is one of the larger municipalities of Madrid, with a housing stock too varied to describe by a single average. At 5.150,8 €/m² this is one of the dearest municipalities in the country to buy into. Almost nothing here is a second home: 14,11 % 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 the prices Pozuelo de Alarcón commands, the Community of Madrid transfer tax alone exceeds the whole purchase price of a flat in much of Spain.

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

A sense of scale

Of the Madrid municipalities covered here, this one comes sixth highest on average cadastral value per home.

Against every municipality in this guide, its average cadastral value per home lands in the dearest twentieth of them all.

Among the Madrid towns and cities covered here, it records the second highest appraised value per square metre.

Over the whole guide, the appraised value of an older home recorded here falls within the dearest twentieth of them all.

On appraised value of a home under five years old it is the second highest of the Madrid municipalities this guide covers.

The comparison that matters

On a national view, its population falls into the band just inside the top fifth.

Take Madrid alone: among the municipalities here, its urban property-tax rate is the sixteenth lowest.

Over the whole guide, the number of urban cadastral units recorded here falls within the band just below the top quarter.

Judged only against Madrid, the total dwelling stock here is the fourteenth highest in the guide.

Country-wide, that count of registered residential units is one of the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.

A sense of scale

On premium a new build commands over an older home it is the seventh lowest of the Madrid municipalities this guide covers.

Nationally, that share of dwellings that are not a main residence falls in the bottom quarter.

On share of the urban register that is housing it is the sixth lowest of the Madrid municipalities this guide covers.

Country-wide, that number of appraisals behind the average is one of the band just below the top quarter.

How many homes change hands

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

With 31.306 residential units on the register, that is moderate turnover of the existing stock.

929 home sales went through the notaries in Pozuelo de Alarcón in the year — a quiet market.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter228
Second quarter286
Third quarter162
Fourth quarter253

A market at the top of the national range

New and old are appraised at much the same level, 5.384,8 €/m² against 5.138,0 €/m².

The figure comes from 271 appraisals in the quarter.

At 5.150,8 €/m², Pozuelo de Alarcón is among the most expensive places in Spain by appraised value.

What owning costs every year

The urban IBI rate in Pozuelo de Alarcón is 0,425 %, on the low side nationally.

The register values the average Pozuelo de Alarcón home at 162.662 €, which is where the yearly bill comes from.

Land classed as rural is taxed at 0,6 %.

180.000 € of cadastral value at 0,425 % is 765 € 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.

A stock of homes people actually live in

The whole stock came to 32.327 dwellings at the census.

31.306 of 54.041 urban units are residential, a housing-led register.

Only 14,11 % of Pozuelo de Alarcón dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

The cadastral values are dated

The Pozuelo de Alarcón register dates from 2001; 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.

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