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What buying in El Vendrell actually costs

The appraised average of 1.921,3 €/m² is close to the ordinary Spanish level. At 49,7 % not a main residence, the holiday half of the stock is the larger half. El Vendrell sits in the size class where Tarragona property still trades on local knowledge more than on portals.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

The Catalonia transfer tax applies to resale purchases in El Vendrell; a new build is charged VAT and stamp duty instead. 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.

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

Judged only against Tarragona, the urban property-tax rate here is the second highest in the guide.

Set the national range end to end and this share of dwellings that are not a main residence lands in the second-dearest twentieth.

Ranked against its neighbours in Tarragona, it holds the third lowest year of the last cadastral revision of the group.

Nationally, that number of notarised home sales falls in the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.

Within Tarragona, that is the fourth lowest count of registered residential units among the municipalities this guide covers.

The comparison that matters

Across the country, the total dwelling stock here belongs to the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.

Of the Tarragona municipalities covered here, this one comes second lowest on appraised value of a home under five years old.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the number of urban cadastral units is in the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.

Judged only against Tarragona, the rural property-tax rate here is the third lowest in the guide.

Set the national range end to end and this premium a new build commands over an older home lands in the bottom quarter.

A sense of scale

Set against the other Tarragona municipalities in this guide, it has the highest appraised value of an older home.

Nationally, that number of appraisals behind the average falls in the band just below the top quarter.

Among the Tarragona towns and cities covered here, it records the fourth highest average cadastral value per home.

Against every municipality in this guide, its average cadastral value per home lands in the band just above the bottom quarter.

How active the market is

Against 30.551 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

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

Notaries in El Vendrell recorded 1.045 home sales in the year, an active market.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter262
Second quarter273
Third quarter234
Fourth quarter276

A stock built largely for holidays

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

The census put the total stock at 31.063 dwellings.

With 49,7 % of dwellings not a main home, El Vendrell is more holiday market than housing market.

What the market looks like

The figure comes from 250 appraisals in the quarter.

Homes under five years old are appraised at 2.053,5 €/m² against 1.920,3 €/m² for older stock — a modest premium.

The average appraisal in El Vendrell is 1.921,3 €/m², an ordinary Spanish level.

Owning it: the annual charge

Rural property pays 0,57 %.

The typical El Vendrell home is on the register at 49.990 €, below the national middle.

El Vendrell applies 1,16 % to urban property, close to the statutory ceiling.

The arithmetic is 180.000 € at 1,16 %, or 2.088 € 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.

A cadastral register left untouched for decades

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

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

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