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The cost of buying a home in Xàtiva

Roughly a third of dwellings, 29,93 %, are not a main residence. The average appraisal is 1.236,8 €/m², which is cheap by Spanish standards. Xàtiva 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

The transfer tax set by Valencian Community is the one closing cost in Xàtiva that nobody can negotiate. Valencian Community applies 9 %, among the highest transfer-tax rates in Spain.

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

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

Put beside the rest of the country, its share of dwellings that are not a main residence belongs to the top quarter.

Of the Valencia municipalities covered here, this one comes third lowest on number of appraisals behind the average.

Nationally, that share of the urban register that is housing falls in the band just below the top quarter.

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

A sense of scale

On a national view, its average cadastral value per home falls into the lower middle of the range.

Within Valencia, that is the eighth highest urban property-tax rate among the municipalities this guide covers.

Taking every municipality covered here together, the tax rate on construction work is in the dearest twentieth of them all.

Take Valencia alone: among the municipalities here, its rural property-tax rate is the eleventh highest.

Against every municipality in this guide, its total dwelling stock lands in the band just above the bottom quarter.

Measured against its neighbours

Of the Valencia municipalities covered here, this one comes twelfth lowest on population.

Nationally, that number of urban cadastral units falls in the lower middle of the range.

Among the Valencia towns and cities covered here, it records the tenth highest number of notarised home sales.

Over the whole guide, the count of registered residential units recorded here falls within the eighth twentieth from the bottom.

The shape of the housing stock

In Xàtiva, 29,93 % of dwellings are not a main home, enough for holiday demand to matter without dominating.

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

Almost the whole register is housing: 18.197 residential units out of 28.371 urban ones.

An ageing cadastral register

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

Xàtiva has not revalued since 2006, which is long enough for the gap to market values to be substantial.

What homes are appraised at

The appraised average in Xàtiva is 1.236,8 €/m², cheap enough that transaction costs are a large share of the total outlay.

It rests on 102 appraisals, a thin base that a few unusual properties can move.

The pace of sales

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

Xàtiva saw 573 notarised home sales over the year, a steady rate for its population.

Against 18.197 registered residential units, a healthy share of the stock changes hands each year.

Notarised home sales by quarter, 2025
QuarterSales
First quarter143
Second quarter169
Third quarter143
Fourth quarter118

What the town hall charges every year

Rural land carries 0,688 %, close to the urban rate.

The typical Xàtiva home is on the register at 52.691 €, below the national middle.

Xàtiva sets its urban IBI at 0,688 %, a little above what most town halls charge.

On 180.000 € of cadastral value the 0,688 % rate yields 1.238 €, 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.

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