Sorello Guides

The cost of buying a home in Illescas

At 1.663,8 €/m² the appraised average sits below the national middle. Illescas is a town rather than a city, which in Toledo usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock. Almost nothing here is a second home: 15,97 % of dwellings are not somebody's main residence.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

Castilla-La Mancha applies 9 %, among the highest transfer-tax rates in Spain. Buying an existing home in Illescas means paying the Castilla-La Mancha transfer tax on top of the price, not out of it.

Transfer tax on a resale purchase, at three illustrative prices
Purchase priceTransfer tax
200.000 €18.000 €
350.000 €31.500 €
600.000 €54.000 €

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 Castilla-La Mancha

How it compares

Of the Toledo municipalities covered here, this one comes lowest on premium a new build commands over an older home.

On a national view, its appraised value of a home under five years old falls into the cheapest twentieth of them.

Judged only against Toledo, the appraised value of an older home here is the lowest in the guide.

Against every municipality in this guide, its tax rate on construction work lands in the lower middle of the range.

Line the Toledo municipalities in this guide up by urban property-tax rate and this one is the highest.

Against the rest of the province

Across the country, the share of the urban register that is housing here belongs to the band just above the bottom quarter.

Compared with the rest of Toledo in this guide, it sits lowest on share of dwellings that are not a main residence.

Across the country, the year of the last cadastral revision here belongs to the eighth twentieth from the bottom.

Among the Toledo towns and cities covered here, it records the second lowest total dwelling stock.

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

How it compares

Compared with the rest of Toledo in this guide, it sits second lowest on appraised value per square metre.

On a national view, its count of registered residential units falls into the third-cheapest twentieth.

Take Toledo alone: among the municipalities here, its number of appraisals behind the average is the lowest.

Put beside the rest of the country, its number of urban cadastral units belongs to the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

A stock of homes people actually live in

12.265 dwellings were counted at the census.

Only 15,97 % of Illescas dwellings are not somebody's main home, so the market is driven by people who live here.

13.183 of 22.577 urban units are residential, a housing-led register.

The pace of sales

Against 13.183 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

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

Illescas saw 554 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter169
Second quarter135
Third quarter131
Fourth quarter119

The market in appraisal terms

It rests on 126 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

Illescas housing is appraised at 1.663,8 €/m² on average.

Unusually, homes under five years old are appraised lower than older ones, 1.658,6 €/m² against 1.664,4 €/m², which usually means the new stock sits further out.

The annual cost of holding the property

Land classed as rural is taxed at 0,62 %.

Illescas charges 0,54 % on urban property, modestly below the common level.

The typical Illescas home is on the register at 59.595 €, below the national middle.

180.000 € of cadastral value at 0,54 % is 972 € a year, but the base is dated and a revision would change it sharply.

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 cadastral values are dated

The Illescas register dates from 2002; a future revision could move the yearly bill significantly even if the rate never changes.

Building work is taxed at 3,5 %, near the top of what town halls may charge.

Related guides

Sources and licences