What applies in Barakaldo to buying, letting and splitting a property? The national rules and the municipality's own rules, with the source and the date. We assume a property you do not live in yourself.
What applies in Barakaldo
By topic. The rules of the municipality and the region are shown in full, the national ones in short. A short rule links to the full text and its source.
Buying
Impuesto sobre Transmisiones Patrimoniales (ITP)
Province of Bizkaia
Tax the buyer pays on the purchase price of an existing home. The region sets the rate.
Existing home
4% of the purchase price
Source:bizkaia.eus, Norma Foral 1/2011 de Bizkaia (ITP-AJD), art. 13.b · updated on 16 October 2026
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No obstante lo dispuesto en la letra anterior, la transmisión de viviendas en general, incluidas las plazas de garaje, con un máximo de dos unidades, y anexos, situados en el mismo edificio, que se transmitan conjuntamente, tributará al 4 por 100.
An area the region has designated as a strained housing market. Limits on the rent apply there.
Source:boe.es, Resolución de 29 de abril de 2025 de la Secretaría de Estado de Vivienda y Agenda Urbana (BOE núm. 104, 30-04-2025): Barakaldo · valid from 1 May 2025 · updated on 16 October 2026
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Orden de 31 de marzo de 2025, del Consejero de Vivienda y Agenda Urbana, por la que se declara el municipio de Barakaldo como zona de mercado residencial tensionado
Short-term rental
Licencia de vivienda turística
Region País Vasco
If you let a home to tourists, you register it with the region. A municipality can limit new registrations or stop them for a while; what is already registered usually stays valid.
Registration
Registration required, everywhere
Ban
Ban, only in designated areas
Source:boe.es, Ley 13/2016 de Turismo, art. 53.6 y 20.4 (Ley 6/2025) · valid from 30 December 2025 · updated on 16 October 2026
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No se podrán arrendar viviendas sin haber presentado previamente la declaración responsable de inicio de actividad turística ante la Administración turística de Euskadi.
Selling
Plusvalía municipal (IIVTNU)
Municipality of Barakaldo
Municipal tax on sale, on the increase in value of the land under the property.
Held up to 5 years
4.23% of the gain
Held 6 years or more, held up to 6 years
5.29% of the gain
Held 7 years or more, held up to 7 years
7.4% of the gain
Held 8 years or more, held up to 8 years
10.58% of the gain
Held 9 years or more, held up to 9 years
13.22% of the gain
Held 10 years or more, held up to 15 years
15% of the gain
Held 16 years or more, held up to 16 years
11.64% of the gain
Held 17 years or more, held up to 17 years
9.52% of the gain
Held 18 years or more, held up to 18 years
7.93% of the gain
Held 19 years or more, held up to 19 years
6.35% of the gain
Held 20 years or more
5.29% of the gain
Source:bizkaia.eus, Ordenanza fiscal reguladora del IIVTNU de Barakaldo, artículo 7 (redacción 2026) · valid from 1 January 2026 · updated on 16 October 2026
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La cuota de este Impuesto será el resultado de aplicar a la base imponible el tipo de gravamen que se establece en el siguiente porcentaje:
Ganancia patrimonial de no residentes (IRNR)National
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