Buying property in Ciudad Quesada: estate agents, steps and costs

Ciudad Quesada is not its own municipality. It is the large urbanisation that sits inside Rojales, an inland town on the Segura river, built up around the La Marquesa golf course with villa and bungalow plots at prices the coast does not offer. That single fact matters before you search any registry: an agency "in Ciudad Quesada" is registered under Rojales, and that is the town page to open.

The registered agencies based in Ciudad Quesada

The RAICV, the Valencian Community's official register of estate agents, lists 25 agencies for the municipality of Rojales. A number of them give Ciudad Quesada itself as their address, including, in alphabetical order and without any ranking or rating:

• Inmorojales Gestiones, in the centre of Rojales, more than 25 years buying, selling and renting in Rojales and Ciudad Quesada.
• Intasun Homes, an office in Rojales covering new-build and resale apartments, bungalows and villas.
• Joanna Black and White Properties, a Ciudad Quesada agency working in new-build, resale and long-term rentals.
• Liriece Real Estate, based next to Ciudad Quesada, with its site mainly in Dutch alongside English, French, Spanish and German.
• Mediterranean y Mar Eiendom, a Norwegian-run agency working from Torrevieja across to Ciudad Quesada and the wider Vega Baja.
• Nelemans Invest, a Dutch-run agency on Calle Valentín Fuster since 2007, registered under RAICV 1441.
• Petra Hönig Real Estate, trading name of Rightmove Spain SL (RAICV 3315), on Avenida de las Naciones in Ciudad Quesada since 1999.
• ProCare Estates, on Avenida de Málaga in Ciudad Quesada, covering Rojales, Guardamar and Torrevieja.
• Saphire Properties York, on the Costa Blanca and Costa Cálida since 2005.
• Villas Blanca R. Estate Agents, on Avenida de las Naciones, selling new-build and resale villas, townhouses and apartments.

Each name above links to its own listing on this site, with its registry number, address and the languages it has declared. The full list of 25, including the agencies that cover Rojales without a Ciudad Quesada address, is on the Rojales directory page linked at the end of this guide.

The buying steps, in brief

The process in Ciudad Quesada is the same as anywhere else in Spain. In order:

• Get your NIE, the foreigner tax number you need to buy, bank or sign anything. Start it the day you decide to buy, not once you have found the property.
• Have an independent lawyer check the land registry entry for debts, embargoes and that what is built matches what is registered, common questions on villa plots with later extensions.
• Sign the private contract (arras) and, at completion, the public deed in front of a notary.
• Afterwards: change the utilities into your name, register with the community of owners if there is one, and, as a non-resident owner, diarise the annual tax return.

For the paperwork itself, HolaOwners, the sister site that handles Spanish admin for foreign owners, has the step-by-step for the NIE application and for checking a land registry extract before you commit money. For the notary and completion step, which is the legal transfer itself rather than paperwork, see our own buying-process guide linked below.

What it costs

On a resale in the Valencian Community, budget roughly 10 to 12% on top of the price for transfer tax, notary, land registry and your lawyer; a new build is taxed differently and comes to roughly 13 to 14%. The ongoing local taxes once you own, IBI and, if you ever sell, the plusvalía municipal, are a separate line covered by HolaOwners. Use the buying-cost calculator linked below for a figure on a specific price before you ask a professional to confirm it.