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The cost of buying a home in Alboraya

The ministry publishes no appraisal average for this municipality, so the market figures below stop at the notarial sales count. Alboraya is a town rather than a city, which in Valencia usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock. Roughly a third of dwellings, 28,23 %, are not a main residence.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

Valencian Community applies 9 %, among the highest transfer-tax rates in Spain. The Valencian Community transfer tax applies to resale purchases in Alboraya; 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 €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 Valencian Community

Against the rest of the province

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

Taking every municipality covered here together, the average cadastral value per home is in the seventeenth twentieth from the bottom.

Judged only against Valencia, the share of the urban register that is housing here is the second highest in the guide.

Put beside the rest of the country, its number of notarised home sales belongs to the cheapest twentieth of them.

Compared with the rest of Valencia in this guide, it sits fourth highest on urban property-tax rate.

In context

Across the country, the rural property-tax rate here belongs to the lower middle of the range.

Of the Valencia municipalities covered here, this one comes sixth highest on year of the last cadastral revision.

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

Within Valencia, that is the ninth highest share of dwellings that are not a main residence among the municipalities this guide covers.

Set the national range end to end and this total dwelling stock lands in the third-cheapest twentieth.

How it ranks

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

Nationally, that population falls in the cheapest twentieth of them.

Set against the other Valencia municipalities in this guide, it has the second highest tax rate on construction work.

What the town hall charges every year

At 87.060 € per dwelling, the Alboraya cadastral base is high enough that the rate matters.

Alboraya sets its urban IBI at 0,74 %, a little above what most town halls charge.

Land classed as rural is taxed at 0,6 %.

A cadastral value of 180.000 € taxed at 0,74 % gives 1.332 €, though the register is old enough that real values have moved.

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 shape of the housing stock

13.734 dwellings were counted at the census.

In Alboraya, 28,23 % of dwellings are not a main home, enough for holiday demand to matter without dominating.

Almost the whole register is housing: 13.244 residential units out of 19.700 urban ones.

How many homes change hands

With 13.244 residential units on the register, that is moderate turnover of the existing stock.

275 home sales went through the notaries in Alboraya in the year — a quiet market.

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

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter70
Second quarter80
Third quarter56
Fourth quarter69

How old the cadastral values are

The last general revision in Alboraya was 2010, so cadastral values sit some way below market values.

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

What the market looks like

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

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