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What buying in Los Palacios y Villafranca actually costs

Second homes are a minority presence, at 20,14 % of the dwelling stock. The average appraisal is 1.300,3 €/m², which is cheap by Spanish standards. Los Palacios y Villafranca sits in the size class where Sevilla property still trades on local knowledge more than on portals.

The one-off cost at signing

The transfer tax set by Andalusia is the one closing cost in Los Palacios y Villafranca that nobody can negotiate. The Andalusia rate is 7 %, around the middle of the Spanish range.

Transfer tax on a resale purchase, at three illustrative prices
Purchase priceTransfer tax
200.000 €14.000 €
350.000 €24.500 €
600.000 €42.000 €

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 Andalusia

A sense of scale

Compared with the rest of Sevilla in this guide, it sits third highest on share of the urban register that is housing.

Country-wide, that year of the last cadastral revision is one of the third-cheapest twentieth.

Set against the other Sevilla municipalities in this guide, it has the fifth lowest appraised value per square metre.

Over the whole guide, the number of notarised home sales recorded here falls within the cheapest twentieth of them.

Within Sevilla, that is the third lowest number of appraisals behind the average among the municipalities this guide covers.

The comparison that matters

Against every municipality in this guide, its number of urban cadastral units lands in the third-cheapest twentieth.

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

Country-wide, that count of registered residential units is one of the bottom quarter.

Judged only against Sevilla, the tax rate on construction work here is the fourth highest in the guide.

Put beside the rest of the country, its average cadastral value per home belongs to the eighth twentieth from the bottom.

A sense of scale

Set against the other Sevilla municipalities in this guide, it has the seventh lowest average cadastral value per home.

Country-wide, that total dwelling stock is one of the band just above the bottom quarter.

Line the Sevilla municipalities in this guide up by urban property-tax rate and this one is the sixth lowest.

On a national view, its rural property-tax rate falls into the band just below the middle.

What the housing stock is like

20,14 % of dwellings in Los Palacios y Villafranca are not a main residence — a normal proportion for an inland town.

No rented share is available for Los Palacios y Villafranca: the census stops short of municipalities this size.

Almost the whole register is housing: 14.996 residential units out of 20.184 urban ones.

The recurring yearly cost

Rural land carries 0,688 %, close to the urban rate.

The typical Los Palacios y Villafranca home is on the register at 55.011 €, below the national middle.

At 0,619 %, the Los Palacios y Villafranca urban IBI rate is an ordinary one.

The arithmetic is 180.000 € at 0,619 %, or 1.114 € 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.

What homes are appraised at

The appraised average in Los Palacios y Villafranca is 1.300,3 €/m², cheap enough that transaction costs are a large share of the total outlay.

It rests on 105 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

A cadastral register left untouched for decades

Los Palacios y Villafranca last revalued its cadastre in 1996, so today's rate is charged on a base from another era — the revision risk is real.

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

How rarely homes change hands

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

Set against 14.996 residential units on the register, turnover is slow.

Notaries recorded 273 home sales in Los Palacios y Villafranca over the year, which is very few for its size.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter79
Second quarter60
Third quarter67
Fourth quarter67

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