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The cost of buying a home in Alhaurín el Grande

Alhaurín el Grande is a town rather than a city, which in Málaga usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock. Roughly a third of dwellings, 30,58 %, are not a main residence. The ministry publishes no appraisal average for this municipality, so the market figures below stop at the notarial sales count.

The one-off cost at signing

The Andalusia rate is 7 %, around the middle of the Spanish range. The Andalusia transfer tax applies to resale purchases in Alhaurín el Grande; a new build is charged VAT and stamp duty instead.

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

How it compares

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

Across the country, the share of the urban register that is housing here belongs to the third-dearest twentieth.

Take Málaga alone: among the municipalities here, its year of the last cadastral revision is the lowest.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the rural property-tax rate is in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Within Málaga, that is the fifth lowest share of dwellings that are not a main residence among the municipalities this guide covers.

Against the rest of the province

Over the whole guide, the number of notarised home sales recorded here falls within the cheapest twentieth of them.

Line the Málaga municipalities in this guide up by number of urban cadastral units and this one is the second lowest.

Measured against the whole batch, that total dwelling stock sits in the third-cheapest twentieth.

Judged only against Málaga, the count of registered residential units here is the third lowest in the guide.

On a national view, its urban property-tax rate falls into the band just below the top quarter.

Put beside its neighbours

Among the Málaga towns and cities covered here, it records the second lowest population.

Measured against the whole batch, that average cadastral value per home sits in the eighth twentieth from the bottom.

Line the Málaga municipalities in this guide up by average cadastral value per home and this one is the lowest.

A cadastral register left untouched for decades

Alhaurín el Grande last revalued its cadastre in 1997, so today's rate is charged on a base from another era — the revision risk is real.

The tax on construction work is 2,5 %, so a refurbishment budget should carry it.

How many homes change hands

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

277 home sales went through the notaries in Alhaurín el Grande in the year — a quiet market.

With 12.875 residential units on the register, that is moderate turnover of the existing stock.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter60
Second quarter66
Third quarter72
Fourth quarter79

The shape of the housing stock

13.134 dwellings were counted at the census.

In Alhaurín el Grande, 30,58 % of dwellings are not a main home, enough for holiday demand to matter without dominating.

Almost the whole register is housing: 12.875 residential units out of 18.822 urban ones.

What the market looks like

The ministry does not publish this figure for Alhaurín el Grande, so it is stated here as not available rather than estimated.

What the town hall charges every year

Alhaurín el Grande sets its urban IBI at 0,71 %, a little above what most town halls charge.

The typical Alhaurín el Grande home is on the register at 54.482 €, below the national middle.

Rural property is charged 0,9 %, which is steep for land.

The arithmetic is 180.000 € at 0,71 %, or 1.278 € a year — on a register so old that the rate tells you little about the eventual bill.

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.

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