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The cost of buying a home in Oliva

At 1.630,5 €/m² the appraised average sits below the national middle. At 50,97 % not a main residence, the holiday half of the stock is the larger half. Oliva is a town rather than a city, which in Valencia usually means one estate agency network knows most of the stock.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

Valencian Community applies 9 %, among the highest transfer-tax rates in Spain. Buying an existing home in Oliva means paying the Valencian Community 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 Valencian Community

Put beside its neighbours

Take Valencia alone: among the municipalities here, its share of dwellings that are not a main residence is the second highest.

Country-wide, that year of the last cadastral revision is one of the second-dearest twentieth.

Line the Valencia municipalities in this guide up by number of appraisals behind the average and this one is the seventh lowest.

On a national view, its tax rate on construction work falls into the eighth twentieth from the bottom.

Set against the other Valencia municipalities in this guide, it has the ninth lowest appraised value per square metre.

How it ranks

Set the national range end to end and this rural property-tax rate lands in the eighth twentieth from the bottom.

Compared with the rest of Valencia in this guide, it sits seventh highest on number of notarised home sales.

Against every municipality in this guide, its share of the urban register that is housing lands in the band just below the top quarter.

Line the Valencia municipalities in this guide up by average cadastral value per home and this one is the eighth highest.

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

Put beside its neighbours

Within Valencia, that is the third lowest population among the municipalities this guide covers.

Put beside the rest of the country, its urban property-tax rate belongs to the band just below the middle.

Ranked against its neighbours in Valencia, it holds the eighth highest total dwelling stock of the group.

Put beside the rest of the country, its count of registered residential units belongs to the band just below the middle.

The age of the cadastral register

Oliva last revalued in 2014, long enough ago for the register to lag the market a little.

Building work is taxed at 3,64 %, near the top of what town halls may charge.

The market in appraisal terms

It rests on 110 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

Oliva housing is appraised at 1.630,5 €/m² on average.

A stock built largely for holidays

With 50,97 % of dwellings not a main home, Oliva is more holiday market than housing market.

Tenure is published only for the larger municipalities and the provincial capitals, which leaves Oliva out.

Almost the whole register is housing: 19.762 residential units out of 30.987 urban ones.

The recurring yearly cost

Land classed as rural is taxed at 0,63 %.

Cadastral values in Oliva average 64.461 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

At 0,605 %, the Oliva urban IBI rate is an ordinary one.

Take 180.000 € of cadastral value: at 0,605 % the yearly bill is 1.089 €.

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 busy transaction market

Against 19.762 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Second quarter was the busiest quarter and First quarter the thinnest, but the spread was mild.

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

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter188
Second quarter224
Third quarter200
Fourth quarter207

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