The lowest property-tax bill isn't where the rate is lowest
Property tax (IBI) on an average home runs from €327 to €1,363 a year, depending on the town. The rate alone won't tell you what you'll pay.
The essentials
- The property-tax bill on an average home runs from €327 (Badia del Vallès) to €1,363 (Alella) a year.
- The rate is misleading: you pay the rate times the cadastral value, and that value varies a lot from town to town.
- At least 90 towns cut the tax if you fit solar panels.
Pick a town and we'll send you its report.
The property tax on an average home, the real price per m², minutes to Barcelona and how it compares with its neighbours.
The property-tax rate is like a price per kilo. Until you know what the thing weighs, you don't know what you'll pay. Here, the weight is the home's cadastral value.
Take Badia del Vallès: one of the highest rates of all 124, and still the lowest bill of the lot, €327 a year. Now Matadepera: one of the ten lowest rates, and a bill of €1,178.
There's a reason. You pay the rate times the cadastral value. Where homes are valued higher by the Cadastre, a low rate can still add up to a big bill. And vice versa.
The rate is the price per kilo. The bill is what you pay at the till.
- Alellarate 0.745%€1,363
- Beguesrate 0.91%€1,227
- Matadeperarate 0.48%€1,178
- Vallromanesrate 0.76% (2025)€1,113
- Cabrilsrate 0.53%€1,111
- Teiàrate 0.775%€1,097
- Collbatórate 0.79%€1,054
- Sant Just Desvernrate 0.752%€1,012
- Tianarate 0.604%€975
- Caldes d'Estracrate 0.92%€964
- Badia del Vallèsrate 1.05%€327
- El Prat de Llobregatrate 0.6199%€348
- La Llagostarate 0.973%€407
- Montornès del Vallèsrate 0.6631%€416
- Montcada i Reixacrate 0.626%€427
- Barberà del Vallèsrate 0.541%€428
- Martorellrate 0.808%€430
- Sant Adrià de Besòsrate 0.598%€433
- Badalonarate 0.811%€434
- L'Hospitalet de Llobregatrate 0.846%€438
How we worked it out
Estimated bill on an average home: average residential cadastral value (Cadastre, 2026) times the IBI rate. The rate comes from the 2026 bylaw where we have read it; elsewhere it is the Ministry of Finance's 2026 figure, marked with its year. We don't estimate a bill where a recent cadastral revaluation phases in the base over nine years. Solar discounts: read in each bylaw; bylaws we haven't read aren't counted. Calculated by Verithic.
- Dirección General del Catastro, estadística del Catastro urbano 2026 · read 3 November 2026
- 2026 municipal tax bylaws (IBI rate) · read 24 September 2026
- Ministry of Finance, municipal tax data 2026 · read 3 November 2026
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