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Selling in Vilanova i la Geltrú

What homes here really sell for, what the council charges and what the law asks before you sign.

Selling in Vilanova i la Geltrú

A second opinion, with sources, before you sign. What homes here really sold for, what they would let for, what the council charges and what the law requires.

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Sale prices, Jul 2025–Jun 2026
€2,795/m²
Resale homes, average price per built m². 890 sales in 2025. Only completed sales count, never asking prices.
Letting a flat, 2024
€8.84/m² a month
Median of SERPAVI, the Housing Ministry's rent index, based on 4,392 lets declared to the tax office (old and new, not just this year's); half of all lets fall between €7.15 and €10.96/m². Median rent: €701 a month; for a house, €743.
Plusvalía: deadline to declare it
30 working days
From the date of the sale. 2026 rate: 30% on the rise in land value, only if there is a gain.
If you let it instead of selling
Rent-controlled area
Law 12/2023 caps the rent on new contracts in some cases. For income tax, your rental income is reduced by 50% to 90%, depending on the case.

Before you sign

  • Selling requires a registered energy performance certificate; the buyer receives a copy with the contract.
    The lawReal Decreto 390/2021, arts. 3.1.b y 17
  • The deed must show you are up to date with the owners' association (certificate from the secretary, approved by the president).
    The lawLey 49/1960, de Propiedad Horizontal, art. 9.1.e
  • Income tax: the gain on selling your main home is exempt if you reinvest the proceeds in another main home within 2 years. It counts as a main home after at least 3 years living there.
    The lawLey 35/2006, del IRPF, y Real Decreto 439/2007, su Reglamento, LIRPF art. 38.1; RIRPF arts. 41 y 41 bis
  • Income tax: from age 65 (or with severe or high dependency), the gain on selling your main home (or the one that was your main home in the previous 2 years) is exempt.
    The lawLey 35/2006, del IRPF, art. 33.4.b
  • Income tax: rental income from a home is reduced by 50%; 60% if renovated in the previous 2 years; 70% for a first letting in a stressed area to a tenant aged 18-35 (or to a social-housing body); 90% in a stressed area if the new contract cuts the rent by more than 5%.
    The lawLey 35/2006, del IRPF (redacción de la Ley 12/2023), art. 23.2

If you're inheriting the home, see the deadlines that overlap

Sources and dates
Generalitat de Catalunya, Secretaria d'Habitatge (registered sales); Spanish Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda, SERPAVI rent index (2024); Spanish Ministry of Finance (plusvalía, 2026); BOE and council bylaws (rules).
Where the real money is

Buying in Vilanova i la Geltrú: Catalonia's transfer tax (ITP).

Catalonia charges 10% to 13% when you buy a resale home. You pay 5% on your main home if you're 35 or under, have a large or single-parent family, or a disability of 65% or more, and your taxable income is no more than €36,000.

At the general rate
€60,000
At the reduced 5% rate
€30,000
What the reduced rate saves you
€30,000

Agència Tributària de Catalunya. Rates read 19 September 2026.

And what Vilanova i la Geltrú itself gives back

We've read 1 council tax break in Vilanova i la Geltrú.

  • 01Solar: 10% off for up to 2 years (30% for solar thermal)IBI · see the small print

    Individual photovoltaic self-consumption: 10% of the gross charge for up to 2 years. Individual solar thermal: 30% for up to 2 years

    • · Counts from the year after the installation is finished and legalised
    • · Only where the installation is not required by law
    Ordenança fiscal núm. 2 de l'IBI, art. 4.5 — Ajuntament de Vilanova i la Geltrú · read 25 September 2026Ordenances fiscals per a 2026, aprovació definitiva publicada al BOPB
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