{"id":101134,"date":"2026-04-08T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/?p=101134"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:00:42","slug":"taxes-foreigners-buying-property-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/buyers\/taxes-foreigners-buying-property-spain\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Do foreigners pay more taxes when buying a house in Spain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we are thinking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/buyers\/how-to-buy-a-house-in-spain-as-a-non-resident-foreigner\/?lang=en\"><strong>buying a home in Spain and we are not Spanish,<\/strong><\/a> it is normal to ask ourselves this question: <strong>will we pay more taxes for being foreigners?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In recent months, moreover, there has been talk of <strong>possible new tax measures aimed at non-resident buyers,<\/strong> which has generated even more doubts.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing we must be clear about is that <strong>nationality does not determine the taxes we pay when buying a home in Spain<\/strong>. What can influence it is our <strong>tax residence<\/strong> and the intended use of the property.<\/p>\n<p>At Fotocasa, we review what changes and what does not change when buying a house in Spain as a foreigner, and what expenses we should anticipate before and after the purchase.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\"><section class=\"mini-posts\"><div class=\"row align-items-center\"><div class=\"col-4 col-md-3 pt-2 pb-2\"><div class=\"mini-posts__image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/buyers\/taxes-for-foreigners-buying-property-in-spain\/?lang=en\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Gemini_Generated_Image_b9f3aqb9f3aqb9f3-1-355x230.jpg\" alt=\"Taxes for Foreigners Buying Property in Spain\" title=\"-\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"col-8 col-md-9 pt-2 pb-2\"><h3 class=\"mini-posts__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/buyers\/taxes-for-foreigners-buying-property-in-spain\/?lang=en\">Taxes for Foreigners Buying Property in Spain<\/a><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Do foreigners pay more taxes when buying a house in Spain?<\/h2>\n<p>The general answer is <strong>no<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The taxes for buying and selling property are the same for foreigners and for Spanish citizens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If we buy a home in Spain, we will have to pay the taxes corresponding to the type of property, just like any other buyer. Generally speaking, taxes directly linked to the transaction usually represent between an <strong>additional 10% and 12% on top of the purchase price<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fotocasa is the expert real estate portal if you are looking for your home in Spain and want to resolve your doubts about housing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":101140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"yes","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13472],"tags":[13692,13548,14482,14483,14035,13552,13551,13549,14485,14486,14473,14393,13550,13547,14497],"class_list":["post-101134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buyers","tag-buy","tag-buy-in-spain","tag-comprar-vivienda-en-espana-siendo-extranjero","tag-costes-comprar-casa-espana","tag-form-210-spain-non-resident-tax","tag-housing-doubts","tag-housing-experts-in-spain","tag-housing-purchase-market-spain","tag-impuestos-extranjeros-comprar-casa-en-espana","tag-impuestos-vivienda-extranjeros","tag-irnr-tax-spain","tag-irnr-vivienda-no-residente","tag-live-in-spain","tag-real-estate-market","tag-taxes-for-foreigners-buying-property-in-spain"],"modified_by":"Patricia Andr\u00e9s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}