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Buy or rent in Vilagarcía de Arousa

Owning a 90 m² home costs less each month than renting it. Owning counts interest, running costs and the return the deposit could earn, at the appraised value; rent is the mean of new leases. Repaying the loan is saving, so it is left out.

Rent per month
€536
Owning per month
€487

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Starting from the average appraised value of €1,531/m², and the mean rent of leases signed in 2024, €6.0/m² a month, in Vilagarcía de Arousa, and a mortgage rate of 3.0%.

Assumptions
90
3
1
Property tax (IBI), insurance, maintenance and the community of owners.
3
What the deposit and purchase costs could earn if invested instead.
7
Transfer tax or VAT, stamp duty, notary and land registry, paid once.

Owning costs less each month than renting.

Rent a month
€536
Owning a month, not recovered
€483
Interest
€310
Running costs
€115
Return given up
€59
Cash out a month, if buying
€637

The comparison counts only the costs of owning you never get back: interest, running costs and what the deposit and purchase costs could earn elsewhere. Loan repayments build equity, so they are left out. So is any rise in the home's value, because nobody knows it in advance. Rents here are the mean rent of leases signed in the year, from landlords' income tax returns (AEAT); prices are appraised values, not sale prices.

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At the average appraised value, a 90 m² home costs €137,745. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €525 a month. Spain sets no cap on the payment; lenders must assess each borrower's solvency.

Payment, two incomes
17%
Payment, one income
34%

Figures for Pontevedra province: Vilagarcía de Arousa has no reliable figures of its own.

69.1% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
2,327

Figures for Pontevedra province: Vilagarcía de Arousa has no reliable figures of its own.

Buyers living abroad bought 1.9% of the homes sold here in the four quarters to Q2 2026.

Bought by buyers abroad, 12 months
1.9%

Appraised values have fallen by 3% or more 2 times since 2005. The deepest began in Q2 2007.

Deepest fall
−49.9%
Recovery from the low
Not yet

26.1% of the 21,149 homes counted in the 2021 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2021 census
26.1%
Empty homes
5,515