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Arona: purchase costs and the yearly bill

At 2.895,6 €/m² appraisals are firmly in the expensive half of the country. 38,19 % of the housing stock is not a main residence, a genuinely mixed town. Arona is one of the larger municipalities of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with a housing stock too varied to describe by a single average.

The one-off cost at signing

At Arona price levels the Canary Islands transfer tax is worth several months of most household budgets, so it belongs in the offer, not after it. The Canary Islands rate is 6,5 %, around the middle of the Spanish range.

Transfer tax on a resale purchase, at three illustrative prices
Purchase priceTransfer tax
200.000 €13.000 €
350.000 €22.750 €
600.000 €39.000 €

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 Canary Islands

How it compares

Of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife municipalities covered here, this one comes second lowest on tax rate on construction work.

On a national view, its total dwelling stock falls into the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Compared with the rest of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in this guide, it sits third highest on count of registered residential units.

Measured against the whole batch, that number of notarised home sales sits in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

On number of urban cadastral units it is the third highest of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife municipalities this guide covers.

Against the rest of the province

Over the whole guide, the rural property-tax rate recorded here falls within the second-cheapest twentieth.

Ranked against its neighbours in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, it holds the third highest population of the group.

Put beside the rest of the country, its share of dwellings that are not a main residence belongs to the third-dearest twentieth.

Line the Santa Cruz de Tenerife municipalities in this guide up by appraised value per square metre and this one is the third highest.

Measured against the whole batch, that year of the last cadastral revision sits in the band just above the bottom quarter.

How it compares

Within Santa Cruz de Tenerife, that is the fourth highest share of the urban register that is housing among the municipalities this guide covers.

Across the country, the average cadastral value per home here belongs to the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

On average cadastral value per home it is the lowest of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife municipalities this guide covers.

Against every municipality in this guide, its urban property-tax rate lands in the lower middle of the range.

A cadastral register left untouched for decades

Renovation work carries a construction tax of 2,3 %, at the light end.

Arona last revalued its cadastre in 2000, so today's rate is charged on a base from another era — the revision risk is real.

The pace of sales

Against 51.912 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.

Arona saw 1.619 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter428
Second quarter473
Third quarter334
Fourth quarter384

A stock split between residents and visitors

The whole stock came to 53.746 dwellings at the census.

38,19 % of the Arona stock is not a main residence, so resident and visitor demand compete for the same buildings.

At 33,32 % of main homes rented, Arona has a rental sector large enough to set the tone of the market.

An expensive market, measured

The figure comes from 232 appraisals in the quarter.

Arona appraises at 2.895,6 €/m², expensive by national standards and rising faster than incomes.

The annual cost of holding the property

Rural land is charged at 0,35 %, which is nominal.

The typical Arona home is on the register at 45.591 €, below the national middle.

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

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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