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The cost of buying a home in Valls

The ministry publishes no appraisal average for this municipality, so the market figures below stop at the notarial sales count. Roughly a third of dwellings, 30,08 %, are not a main residence. Valls is a town rather than a city, which in Tarragona usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock.

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

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

Of the Tarragona municipalities covered here, this one comes fourth lowest on urban property-tax rate.

Against every municipality in this guide, its year of the last cadastral revision lands in the second-cheapest twentieth.

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

Across the country, the share of the urban register that is housing here belongs to the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

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

The comparison that matters

Over the whole guide, the average cadastral value per home recorded here falls within the bottom quarter.

Of the Tarragona municipalities covered here, this one comes second lowest on average cadastral value per home.

On a national view, its share of dwellings that are not a main residence falls into the top quarter.

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

Nationally, that number of notarised home sales falls in the second-cheapest twentieth.

Where this one stands

Of the Tarragona municipalities covered here, this one comes lowest on total dwelling stock.

Set the national range end to end and this number of urban cadastral units lands in the third-cheapest twentieth.

Set against the other Tarragona municipalities in this guide, it has the lowest population.

A cadastral register left untouched for decades

Building work is taxed at 3,54 %, near the top of what town halls may charge.

Valls last revalued its cadastre in 1995, so today's rate is charged on a base from another era — the revision risk is real.

Owning it: the annual charge

Rural land is charged at 0,4 %, which is nominal.

The typical Valls home is on the register at 47.525 €, below the national middle.

Valls applies 1,037 % to urban property, close to the statutory ceiling.

The arithmetic is 180.000 € at 1,037 %, or 1.867 € 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.

The pace of sales

With 11.694 residential units on the register, that is moderate turnover of the existing stock.

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

Valls saw 339 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter92
Second quarter92
Third quarter67
Fourth quarter88

The shape of the housing stock

In Valls, 30,08 % of dwellings are not a main home, enough for holiday demand to matter without dominating.

13.368 dwellings were counted at the census.

11.694 of 20.709 urban units are residential, a housing-led register.

What the market looks like

The ministry does not publish this figure for Valls, so it is stated here as not available rather than estimated.

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