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What buying in Yecla actually costs

34,21 % of the housing stock is not a main residence, a genuinely mixed town. Homes here are appraised at 839,3 €/m², at the bottom of the national range. Yecla sits in the size class where Murcia property still trades on local knowledge more than on portals.

The one-off cost at signing

In Yecla 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

How it compares

Compared with the rest of Murcia in this guide, it sits lowest on appraised value per square metre.

Against every municipality in this guide, its tax rate on construction work lands in the band just above the bottom quarter.

Ranked against its neighbours in Murcia, it holds the eighth lowest share of dwellings that are not a main residence of the group.

Put beside the rest of the country, its share of the urban register that is housing belongs to the bottom quarter.

Compared with the rest of Murcia in this guide, it sits third lowest on average cadastral value per home.

Against the rest of the province

Over the whole guide, the average cadastral value per home recorded here falls within the third-cheapest twentieth.

Of the Murcia municipalities covered here, this one comes fifth lowest on number of appraisals behind the average.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the rural property-tax rate is in the lower middle of the range.

Of the Murcia municipalities covered here, this one comes eighth lowest on urban property-tax rate.

Put beside the rest of the country, its year of the last cadastral revision belongs to the exact middle of the range.

How it compares

Within Murcia, that is the eighth lowest number of urban cadastral units among the municipalities this guide covers.

Across the country, the number of notarised home sales here belongs to the eighth twentieth from the bottom.

Line the Murcia municipalities in this guide up by count of registered residential units and this one is the sixth lowest.

Measured against the whole batch, that total dwelling stock sits in the eighth twentieth from the bottom.

A stock split between residents and visitors

34,21 % of the Yecla stock is not a main residence, so resident and visitor demand compete for the same buildings.

19.140 of 33.429 urban units are residential, a housing-led register.

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

The pace of sales

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

Against 19.140 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Yecla saw 581 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter137
Second quarter149
Third quarter135
Fourth quarter160

What the town hall charges every year

Land classed as rural is taxed at 0,63 %.

A cadastral value of 44.207 € per residential unit keeps the Yecla bill modest whatever the rate.

Yecla sets its urban IBI at 0,68 %, a little above what most town halls charge.

180.000 € of cadastral value at 0,68 % is 1.224 € a year, but the base is dated and a revision would change it sharply.

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 cadastral values are dated

The Yecla register dates from 2005; a future revision could move the yearly bill significantly even if the rate never changes.

The tax on construction work is 3,3 %, so a refurbishment budget should carry it.

What the market looks like at the cheap end

Appraisers value free-market housing in Yecla at 839,3 €/m², which puts a whole flat within reach of a modest deposit.

It rests on 106 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

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