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The cost of buying a home in Cangas

Cangas is a town rather than a city, which in Pontevedra usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock. At 1.748,3 €/m² the appraised average sits below the national middle. 34,24 % of the housing stock is not a main residence, a genuinely mixed town.

What the deed itself costs

Galicia applies 8 %, at the heavier end of the ordinary range. Buying an existing home in Cangas means paying the Galicia 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 €16.000 €
350.000 €28.000 €
600.000 €48.000 €

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 Galicia

A sense of scale

Of the Pontevedra municipalities covered here, this one comes highest on share of the urban register that is housing.

Measured against the whole batch, that year of the last cadastral revision sits in the cheapest twentieth of them.

Of the Pontevedra municipalities covered here, this one comes second lowest on rural property-tax rate.

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

On average cadastral value per home it is the second lowest of the Pontevedra municipalities this guide covers.

The comparison that matters

Set the national range end to end and this average cadastral value per home lands in the second-cheapest twentieth.

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

Taking every municipality covered here together, the number of appraisals behind the average is in the cheapest twentieth of them.

Take Pontevedra alone: among the municipalities here, its urban property-tax rate is the third lowest.

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

A sense of scale

On number of urban cadastral units it is the second lowest of the Pontevedra municipalities this guide covers.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the appraised value per square metre is in the band just below the middle.

Of the Pontevedra municipalities covered here, this one comes lowest on population.

Against every municipality in this guide, its total dwelling stock lands in the bottom quarter.

How many homes change hands

Set against 15.434 residential units on the register, turnover is slow.

269 home sales went through the notaries in Cangas in the year — a quiet market.

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

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter81
Second quarter56
Third quarter65
Fourth quarter67

A stock split between residents and visitors

Tenure is published only for the larger municipalities and the provincial capitals, which leaves Cangas out.

Almost the whole register is housing: 15.434 residential units out of 20.598 urban ones.

34,24 % of the Cangas stock is not a main residence, so resident and visitor demand compete for the same buildings.

A cadastral register left untouched for decades

The tax on construction work is 3,2 %, so a refurbishment budget should carry it.

Cangas last revalued its cadastre in 1988, so today's rate is charged on a base from another era — the revision risk is real.

The market in appraisal terms

It rests on 63 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

Cangas housing is appraised at 1.748,3 €/m² on average.

The annual cost of holding the property

Cangas charges 0,55 % on urban property, modestly below the common level.

Rural land is charged at 0,3 %, which is nominal.

A cadastral value of 38.227 € per residential unit keeps the Cangas bill modest whatever the rate.

The arithmetic is 180.000 € at 0,55 %, or 990 € 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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