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What a purchase in Torrejón de Ardoz costs beyond the price

Almost nothing here is a second home: 6,42 % of dwellings are not somebody's main residence. At 2.952,2 €/m² appraisals are firmly in the expensive half of the country. Torrejón de Ardoz is among the biggest places in Madrid, and its neighbourhoods diverge enough that a municipal average hides more than it shows.

What you pay once, at the deed

At Torrejón de Ardoz 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

Where this one stands

Set against the other Madrid municipalities in this guide, it has the eighth highest population.

Set the national range end to end and this count of registered residential units lands in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

On total dwelling stock it is the eighth highest of the Madrid municipalities this guide covers.

Nationally, that number of urban cadastral units falls in the band just inside the top fifth.

On number of appraisals behind the average it is the eighth highest of the Madrid municipalities this guide covers.

Measured against its neighbours

Taking every municipality covered here together, the number of notarised home sales is in the band just inside the top fifth.

On share of dwellings that are not a main residence it is the fifth lowest of the Madrid municipalities this guide covers.

Nationally, that appraised value per square metre falls in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Judged only against Madrid, the urban property-tax rate here is the sixth highest in the guide.

Across the country, the appraised value of an older home here belongs to the top quarter.

Where this one stands

Ranked against its neighbours in Madrid, it holds the eighth lowest appraised value of a home under five years old of the group.

Across the country, the year of the last cadastral revision here belongs to the eighth twentieth from the bottom.

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

Against every municipality in this guide, its average cadastral value per home lands in the upper middle of the range.

The cadastral values are dated

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

The Torrejón de Ardoz register dates from 2002; a future revision could move the yearly bill significantly even if the rate never changes.

An expensive market, measured

Torrejón de Ardoz appraises at 2.952,2 €/m², expensive by national standards and rising faster than incomes.

Homes under five years old are appraised at 3.248,0 €/m² against 2.929,6 €/m² for older stock — a modest premium.

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

The annual cost of holding the property

Cadastral values in Torrejón de Ardoz average 65.315 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

Land classed as rural is taxed at 0,645 %.

Torrejón de Ardoz charges 0,525 % on urban property, modestly below the common level.

180.000 € of cadastral value at 0,525 % is 945 € 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

Only 6,42 % of Torrejón de Ardoz dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

Renting accounts for 18,71 % of main homes in Torrejón de Ardoz, close to the Spanish norm.

50.494 dwellings in total were counted.

How many homes change hands

1.433 home sales went through the notaries in Torrejón de Ardoz in the year — a quiet market.

With 53.101 residential units on the register, that is moderate turnover of the existing stock.

Fourth quarter was the busiest quarter and Third quarter the thinnest, but the spread was mild.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter363
Second quarter344
Third quarter329
Fourth quarter397

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