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What buying in Cambrils actually costs

An appraised average of 2.423,2 €/m² puts this above the national middle. Cambrils sits in the size class where Tarragona property still trades on local knowledge more than on portals. At 55,42 % not a main residence, the holiday half of the stock is the larger half.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

Catalonia charges transfer tax on a progressive scale rather than a single rate, starting at 10 % and rising through bands as the value goes up; the table below applies the scale bracket by bracket. On a Cambrils resale the Catalonia transfer tax is the single largest item after the price itself.

Transfer tax on a resale purchase, at three illustrative prices
Purchase priceTransfer tax
200.000 €20.000 €
350.000 €35.000 €
600.000 €60.000 €

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 Catalonia

A sense of scale

Line the Tarragona municipalities in this guide up by share of dwellings that are not a main residence and this one is the third highest.

Put beside the rest of the country, its urban property-tax rate belongs to the second-dearest twentieth.

On year of the last cadastral revision it is the fourth lowest of the Tarragona municipalities this guide covers.

Put beside the rest of the country, its number of notarised home sales belongs to the band just below the top quarter.

Compared with the rest of Tarragona in this guide, it sits fourth highest on count of registered residential units.

The comparison that matters

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

Ranked against its neighbours in Tarragona, it holds the fourth highest number of urban cadastral units of the group.

Across the country, the appraised value per square metre here belongs to the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.

Within Tarragona, that is the third highest average cadastral value per home among the municipalities this guide covers.

Across the country, the average cadastral value per home here belongs to the lower middle of the range.

A sense of scale

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

Nationally, that rural property-tax rate falls in the band just below the middle.

Ranked against its neighbours in Tarragona, it holds the third lowest tax rate on construction work of the group.

Over the whole guide, the share of the urban register that is housing recorded here falls within the band just above the middle.

A busy transaction market

Against 32.102 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

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

Fourth quarter carried far more deeds than Third quarter, so timing an offer against the calendar is worth something here.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter315
Second quarter256
Third quarter209
Fourth quarter324

A stock built largely for holidays

With 55,42 % of dwellings not a main home, Cambrils is more holiday market than housing market.

The census put the total stock at 31.733 dwellings.

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

A cadastral register left untouched for decades

Building work is taxed at 3,75 %, near the top of what town halls may charge.

Cambrils last revalued its cadastre in 1997, so today's rate is charged on a base from another era — the revision risk is real.

Appraised values and what they imply

The figure comes from 219 appraisals in the quarter.

At 2.423,2 €/m², Cambrils appraisals sit above the national middle.

Owning it: the annual charge

The typical Cambrils home is on the register at 51.441 €, below the national middle.

Cambrils applies 0,92 % to urban property, close to the statutory ceiling.

Rural land carries 0,67 %, close to the urban rate.

The arithmetic is 180.000 € at 0,92 %, or 1.656 € 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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