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What buying in Mazarrón actually costs

At 1.611,0 €/m² the appraised average sits below the national middle. 57,9 % of dwellings are not a main residence, which is resort territory. Mazarrón sits in the size class where Murcia property still trades on local knowledge more than on portals.

The one-off cost at signing

Buying an existing home in Mazarrón means paying the Region of Murcia transfer tax on top of the price, not out of it. 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

A sense of scale

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

Against every municipality in this guide, its share of the urban register that is housing lands in the second-dearest twentieth.

Among the Murcia towns and cities covered here, it records the fourth highest number of notarised home sales.

Set the national range end to end and this rural property-tax rate lands in the third-cheapest twentieth.

Among the Murcia towns and cities covered here, it records the sixth highest total dwelling stock.

The comparison that matters

Across the country, the count of registered residential units here belongs to the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.

Set against the other Murcia municipalities in this guide, it has the sixth lowest number of appraisals behind the average.

Put beside the rest of the country, its appraised value per square metre belongs to the lower middle of the range.

Judged only against Murcia, the number of urban cadastral units here is the sixth highest in the guide.

Set the national range end to end and this average cadastral value per home lands in the band just above the bottom quarter.

A sense of scale

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

Across the country, the urban property-tax rate here belongs to the band just below the top quarter.

Within Murcia, that is the sixth highest year of the last cadastral revision among the municipalities this guide covers.

Measured against the whole batch, that tax rate on construction work sits in the third-dearest twentieth.

A busy transaction market

Against 29.905 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

1.278 home sales were notarised in Mazarrón over the year, well above what its population alone would predict.

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

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter337
Second quarter358
Third quarter292
Fourth quarter291

The market in appraisal terms

Mazarrón housing is appraised at 1.611,0 €/m² on average.

It rests on 112 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

What the town hall charges every year

The rural rate is 0,44 %, lower than the urban one.

The typical Mazarrón home is on the register at 51.405 €, below the national middle.

Mazarrón sets its urban IBI at 0,7 %, a little above what most town halls charge.

On 180.000 € of cadastral value the 0,7 % rate yields 1.260 €, 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.

An ageing cadastral register

Mazarrón has not revalued since 2008, which is long enough for the gap to market values to be substantial.

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

Resort housing, measured

The census put the total stock at 31.537 dwellings.

57,9 % of Mazarrón dwellings are not a main residence, which changes everything from service charges to winter opening hours.

Almost the whole register is housing: 29.905 residential units out of 42.051 urban ones.

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