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What buying in Águilas actually costs

Águilas sits in the size class where Murcia property still trades on local knowledge more than on portals. At 1.460,6 €/m² the appraised average sits below the national middle. At 49 % not a main residence, the holiday half of the stock is the larger half.

The one-off cost at signing

The Region of Murcia rate is 7,75 %, around the middle of the Spanish range. Buying an existing home in Águilas means paying the Region of Murcia transfer tax on top of the price, not out of it.

Transfer tax on a resale purchase, at three illustrative prices
Purchase priceTransfer tax
200.000 €15.500 €
350.000 €27.125 €
600.000 €46.500 €

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 Region of Murcia

Put beside its neighbours

Set against the other Murcia municipalities in this guide, it has the fourth highest share of dwellings that are not a main residence.

Over the whole guide, the appraised value of an older home recorded here falls within the second-cheapest twentieth.

Among the Murcia towns and cities covered here, it records the second highest appraised value of a home under five years old.

Set the national range end to end and this year of the last cadastral revision lands in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Take Murcia alone: among the municipalities here, its premium a new build commands over an older home is the second highest.

How it ranks

Against every municipality in this guide, its urban property-tax rate lands in the band just above the bottom quarter.

Of the Murcia municipalities covered here, this one comes fifth highest on appraised value per square metre.

Against every municipality in this guide, its number of notarised home sales lands in the upper middle of the range.

Line the Murcia municipalities in this guide up by total dwelling stock and this one is the seventh highest.

Against every municipality in this guide, its count of registered residential units lands in the band just above the middle.

Put beside its neighbours

Line the Murcia municipalities in this guide up by number of urban cadastral units and this one is the seventh highest.

Nationally, that rural property-tax rate falls in the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.

On tax rate on construction work it is the highest of the Murcia municipalities this guide covers.

Measured against the whole batch, that average cadastral value per home sits in the band just above the middle.

The annual cost of holding the property

Águilas charges 0,536 % on urban property, modestly below the common level.

The rural rate of 0,8 % is unusually close to the urban one.

Cadastral values in Águilas average 62.961 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

A cadastral value of 180.000 € taxed at 0,536 % gives 965 €, 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.

The market in appraisal terms

The premium for new build is clear: 1.750,9 €/m² against 1.455,5 €/m² for anything older.

The figure comes from 198 appraisals in the quarter.

Águilas housing is appraised at 1.460,6 €/m² on average.

A stock built largely for holidays

No rented share is available for Águilas: the census stops short of municipalities this size.

The census put the total stock at 26.137 dwellings.

With 49 % of dwellings not a main home, Águilas is more holiday market than housing market.

How active the market is

Against 24.878 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

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

Notaries in Águilas recorded 908 home sales in the year, an active market.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter212
Second quarter258
Third quarter194
Fourth quarter244

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 Águilas was 2012, so cadastral values sit some way below market values.

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