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The cost of buying a home in Caravaca de la Cruz

Homes here are appraised at 862,0 €/m², at the bottom of the national range. 36,17 % of the housing stock is not a main residence, a genuinely mixed town. Caravaca de la Cruz is a town rather than a city, which in Murcia usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock.

The one-off cost at signing

In Caravaca de la Cruz the transfer tax is often larger than every other closing cost put together, because the tax scales with the price and the fees largely do not. The Region of Murcia rate is 7,75 %, around the middle of the Spanish range.

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

In context

Ranked against its neighbours in Murcia, it holds the lowest share of the urban register that is housing of the group.

Nationally, that appraised value per square metre falls in the cheapest twentieth of them.

Among the Murcia towns and cities covered here, it records the seventh highest share of dwellings that are not a main residence.

On a national view, its tax rate on construction work falls into the lower middle of the range.

Line the Murcia municipalities in this guide up by number of appraisals behind the average and this one is the third lowest.

Put beside its neighbours

Against every municipality in this guide, its number of notarised home sales lands in the third-cheapest twentieth.

Among the Murcia towns and cities covered here, it records the lowest count of registered residential units.

Set the national range end to end and this total dwelling stock lands in the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

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

On a national view, its average cadastral value per home falls into the lower middle of the range.

In context

Take Murcia alone: among the municipalities here, its number of urban cadastral units is the second lowest.

Across the country, the population here belongs to the cheapest twentieth of them.

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

Measured against the whole batch, that rural property-tax rate sits in the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.

What the market looks like at the cheap end

Appraisers value free-market housing in Caravaca de la Cruz at 862,0 €/m², which puts a whole flat within reach of a modest deposit.

It rests on 91 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

The pace of sales

With 12.751 residential units on the register, that is moderate turnover of the existing stock.

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

Caravaca de la Cruz saw 348 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter72
Second quarter90
Third quarter71
Fourth quarter115

A stock split between residents and visitors

14.630 dwellings were counted at the census.

12.751 of 23.164 urban units are residential, a housing-led register.

36,17 % of the Caravaca de la Cruz stock is not a main residence, so resident and visitor demand compete for the same buildings.

An ageing cadastral register

Building work is taxed at 3,5 %, near the top of what town halls may charge.

Caravaca de la Cruz has not revalued since 2007, which is long enough for the gap to market values to be substantial.

What the town hall charges every year

The typical Caravaca de la Cruz home is on the register at 52.959 €, below the national middle.

The rural rate of 0,79 % is unusually close to the urban one.

Caravaca de la Cruz sets its urban IBI at 0,69 %, a little above what most town halls charge.

On 180.000 € of cadastral value the 0,69 % rate yields 1.242 €, on a register that has not been refreshed in a long time.

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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