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Paterna: purchase costs and the yearly bill

Paterna is one of the larger municipalities of Valencia, with a housing stock too varied to describe by a single average. Second homes are a minority presence, at 18,21 % of the dwelling stock. An appraised average of 2.220,0 €/m² puts this above the national middle.

The bill that lands on the day of the deed

Valencian Community applies 9 %, among the highest transfer-tax rates in Spain. On a Paterna resale the Valencian Community transfer tax is the single largest item after the price itself.

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

Measured against its neighbours

Take Valencia alone: among the municipalities here, its population is the fourth highest.

Put beside the rest of the country, its urban property-tax rate belongs to the fourth-cheapest twentieth.

Take Valencia alone: among the municipalities here, its average cadastral value per home is the fourth highest.

Nationally, that average cadastral value per home falls in the top quarter.

Take Valencia alone: among the municipalities here, its total dwelling stock is the fifth highest.

A sense of scale

Taking every municipality covered here together, the count of registered residential units is in the band just below the top quarter.

Among the Valencia towns and cities covered here, it records the fifth highest number of urban cadastral units.

Country-wide, that number of notarised home sales is one of the thirteenth twentieth from the bottom.

Among the Valencia towns and cities covered here, it records the fifth highest number of appraisals behind the average.

Against every municipality in this guide, its share of dwellings that are not a main residence lands in the lower middle of the range.

Measured against its neighbours

Of the Valencia municipalities covered here, this one comes tenth highest on tax rate on construction work.

Over the whole guide, the appraised value per square metre recorded here falls within the upper middle of the range.

Line the Valencia municipalities in this guide up by year of the last cadastral revision and this one is the eleventh highest.

Nationally, that rural property-tax rate falls in the band just above the middle.

What the housing stock is like

Renting accounts for 15,25 % of main homes in Paterna, close to the Spanish norm.

The whole stock came to 33.020 dwellings at the census.

18,21 % of dwellings in Paterna are not a main residence — a normal proportion for an inland town.

An ageing cadastral register

Paterna has not revalued since 2007, which is long enough for the gap to market values to be substantial.

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

What owning costs every year

The urban IBI rate in Paterna is 0,48 %, on the low side nationally.

Rural land carries 0,74 %, close to the urban rate.

Cadastral values in Paterna average 77.638 € per dwelling, an ordinary base.

On 180.000 € of cadastral value the 0,48 % rate yields 864 €, on a register that has not been refreshed in a long time.

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.

Appraised values and what they imply

At 2.220,0 €/m², Paterna appraisals sit above the national middle.

The figure comes from 275 appraisals in the quarter.

The pace of sales

The year was almost flat: Second quarter was the busiest quarter and Fourth quarter the quietest, with little between them.

Against 32.068 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Paterna saw 989 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter245
Second quarter251
Third quarter251
Fourth quarter242

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