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What buying in Alhaurín de la Torre actually costs

Alhaurín de la Torre sits in the size class where Málaga property still trades on local knowledge more than on portals. At 2.724,9 €/m² appraisals are firmly in the expensive half of the country. Second homes are a minority presence, at 18,42 % of the dwelling stock.

The one-off cost at signing

At Alhaurín de la Torre price levels the Andalusia transfer tax is worth several months of most household budgets, so it belongs in the offer, not after it. The Andalusia rate is 7 %, around the middle of the Spanish range.

Transfer tax on a resale purchase, at three illustrative prices
Purchase priceTransfer tax
200.000 €14.000 €
350.000 €24.500 €
600.000 €42.000 €

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 Andalusia

Put beside its neighbours

Among the Málaga towns and cities covered here, it records the third highest average cadastral value per home.

Measured against the whole batch, that average cadastral value per home sits in the second-dearest twentieth.

On share of the urban register that is housing it is the highest of the Málaga municipalities this guide covers.

Measured against the whole batch, that appraised value per square metre sits in the top quarter.

Take Málaga alone: among the municipalities here, its rural property-tax rate is the fifth highest.

How it ranks

Against every municipality in this guide, its premium a new build commands over an older home lands in the band just above the bottom quarter.

On year of the last cadastral revision it is the sixth highest of the Málaga municipalities this guide covers.

Put beside the rest of the country, its share of dwellings that are not a main residence belongs to the lower middle of the range.

Judged only against Málaga, the number of urban cadastral units here is the fourth lowest in the guide.

Put beside the rest of the country, its appraised value of an older home belongs to the band just below the top quarter.

Put beside its neighbours

Compared with the rest of Málaga in this guide, it sits highest on tax rate on construction work.

Nationally, that population falls in the band just above the middle.

Of the Málaga municipalities covered here, this one comes fourth lowest on count of registered residential units.

Against every municipality in this guide, its appraised value of a home under five years old lands in the upper middle of the range.

How many homes change hands

Against 15.540 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

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

580 home sales went through the notaries in Alhaurín de la Torre in the year — a quiet market.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter192
Second quarter120
Third quarter124
Fourth quarter144

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 Alhaurín de la Torre was 2010, so cadastral values sit some way below market values.

The recurring yearly cost

At 0,65 %, the Alhaurín de la Torre urban IBI rate is an ordinary one.

At 104.869 € per dwelling, the Alhaurín de la Torre cadastral base is high enough that the rate matters.

The rural rate of 0,89 % is unusually close to the urban one.

A cadastral value of 180.000 € taxed at 0,65 % gives 1.170 €, 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.

What the housing stock is like

No rented share is available for Alhaurín de la Torre: the census stops short of municipalities this size.

18,42 % of dwellings in Alhaurín de la Torre are not a main residence — a normal proportion for an inland town.

Almost the whole register is housing: 15.540 residential units out of 21.648 urban ones.

An expensive market, measured

Homes under five years old are appraised at 2.920,0 €/m² against 2.708,1 €/m² for older stock — a modest premium.

Alhaurín de la Torre appraises at 2.724,9 €/m², expensive by national standards and rising faster than incomes.

The figure comes from 190 appraisals in the quarter.

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