All notaries in Spain are subject to a single notarial fee schedule that outlines all the notarial costs you will need to bear when formalizing your deeds and policies. All of these are published in the BOE (Official State Gazette) and should be taken into account when working with us.
Notarial Fee Schedule
The numbers 1 to 7 of Annex I of the Notarial Fee Schedule approved by Royal Decree 1426/1989, of November 17, after conversion to euros, will have the following wording:
Article One
Number 1. Documents without value.
1. For public instruments without amount, the following amounts will be received:
a) General powers: €30.050605.
b) Powers for lawsuits: €15.025302.
c) Minutes: €36.060726.
d) Wills, per grantor: €30.050605.
e) Marriage agreements: €30.050605.
f) Other documents (marital status, emancipation, recognition of filiation, etc.): €30.050605.
2. In the case of powers of attorney, if there are more than two principals, €6.010121 will be received for each excess, and for each proxy that exceeds six, €0.601012.
Number 2. Documents with a monetary value.
1. For instruments with a monetary value, the fees will be those resulting from applying the following scale to the value of the assets involved in the documented transaction: a) When the value does not exceed €6,010.12: €90.151815. b) For the excess between €6,010.13 and €30,050.60: 4.5 per 1,000. c) For the excess between €30,050.61 and €60,101.21: 1.50 per 1,000. d) For the excess between €60,101.22 and €150,253.03: 1 per 1,000. e) For the excess between €150,253.04 and €601,012.10: 0.5 per 1,000. f) For the excess above €601,012.11 up to €6,010,121.04: 0.3 per 1,000. For amounts exceeding €6,010,121.05, the notary will charge an amount freely agreed upon with the grantor parties.
2. The fees established in section 1 will be reduced by 25% for personal loans and credits or those with a mortgage guarantee. The reduction will reach 50% in the following cases: a) Instruments where, by express provision of the law, the State, Autonomous Communities, provinces, or municipalities or their Autonomous Bodies are obliged to pay the notarial fees. b) Instruments where political parties and trade unions are obliged to pay. c) Loans or advances granted by different Public Administrations for the promotion and construction of housing. d) Loans for the protected rehabilitation of existing housing and primary community equipment. e) Second or subsequent transfers of buildings and housing that have obtained a rating or certification of protected action by meeting the requirements demanded in the current regulations. f) Subrogation, with or without simultaneous novation, and modifying novation of mortgage loans covered by Law 2/1994, of March 30, provided that the instrument covers a single concept. For the calculation of fees, the amount of the outstanding principal at the time of subrogation will be taken as the base, and in modifying novations, the amount resulting from applying the mortgage liability in force the differential between the loan interest being modified and the new interest.
Section f) of section 2 of number 2 of Annex I introduced by Royal Decree 2616/1996, December 20 ("B.O.E." December 21), amending Royal Decrees 1426/1989 and 1427/1989, of November 17, on notarial and property registrar fees in subrogation and novation operations of mortgage loans covered by Law 2/1994, of March 30. 3. Exemptions or reductions in the matter of land consolidation, Official Protection Housing, family farms, and others established by law are also safeguarded.
Number 3. Protests.
1. For protest acts, the following fees will be charged: a) If the amount of the bill does not exceed €60.10: €3.005061. b) If it exceeds €60.10 and does not exceed €150.25: €4.507591. c) If it exceeds €150.25 and does not exceed €300.51: €6.010121. d) If it exceeds €300.51 and does not exceed €601.01: €9.015182. e) From €601.01 onwards, in addition to the last amount, €0.601012 will be charged for each excess of €601.01 or fraction thereof.
2. An additional amount of €3.005061 will be charged in the following cases: a) For the notification practice, when the effect is domiciled outside the limits of the notary's residence town. b) When the effect is delivered outside normal hours. c) For payment of the effect at the notary's office.
3. €6.010121 will be charged for each hour or fraction when the effect is domiciled outside the municipal area of the notary's residence.
Number 4. Copies.
1. Authorized copies and certificates and their issuance note, if applicable, will incur a fee of €3.005061 per folio or part thereof. From the twelfth folio onwards, half of the previous amount will be charged.
2. Simple copies will be charged at a rate of €0.601012 per folio.
3. In copies of public instruments that are in the Historical Archive, or in the general archives of Districts or Notaries, when they are more than five years old, double fees will be charged, and additionally, for custody rights, €0.601012 per year or fraction of the document's age.
4. Notaries responsible for the Protocol Archive will issue, without fees, on non-stamped paper, and without prejudice to the reimbursement at the appropriate time, the copies of instruments that must be given at the request of State Offices, Autonomous Communities, or Local Corporations.
Number 5. Certificates and legalizations.
1. Certificates, in general, will be governed by the provisions of number 4.
2. For signature legalization, €6.010121 will be charged; for each additional signature contained in the same document, €3.005061 will be charged.
3. In legalizations contemplated by article 262 of the Notarial Regulation, the fees resulting from applying number 2 will be charged with an 85% reduction.
4. Certificates of authenticity of a photocopy of a document composed of several folios in which it is possible to extend a single certificate covering the entire document, by reference to identifying data, will incur a fee of €3.005061 for the collation diligence and €0.601012 for each additional folio.
5. For legalization certificates, €3.005061 will be charged for each notary authorizing them.
6. Certificates of authentication and legalization of signatures of Civil Registry certifications will incur half the fees established in numbers 5.2 and 5.5.
Number 6. Deposits, departures, and others.
1. For the deposit of a closed or holographic will, €6.010121 will be charged. When the deposit is withdrawn, €1.202024 will be charged per year or fraction, for conservation and custody rights.
2. Act opening diligences will incur a fee of €9.015182, plus €0.060101 per folio. For adhesion, ratification, or any other diligence added to a document, €3.005061 will be charged.
3. For leaving the notary's office, the notary will charge, except for protest acts, per hour or fraction: a) If it is within the municipal area of their residence: €18.030363. b) If it is outside of it, or on holidays, on-call days, or outside office hours: €24.040484.
4. In case of public sale and processing of the extrajudicial procedure of mortgage execution, matrix rights will apply as per number 2 of the Fee Schedule, based on the auction or adjudication price. Additionally, numbers 4, 6.2, and 6.3 will apply to any resulting actions.
Number 7. Matrix folios.
Matrix folios, from the fifth folio onwards, will incur a fee of €3.005061 per written side. In cases of subrogation and modifying novation of mortgage loans covered by Law 2/1994, of March 30, on Subrogation and Modification of Mortgage Loans, the matrix folios will not incur any fee until the tenth folio.
Article Two
From Annex II of the current Fee Schedule, only the General Application Rules Eleven and Twelve are modified as a result of the conversion, and their wording will be as follows:
ART. Eleventh Eleventh
A complete copy of the Tariff, along with its application rules and supplements, and a table listing the fees corresponding to bases between €6,010.12 and €300,506.05 that are multiples of €601.01, shall be made available to the public at all Notary Offices, with a notice of this availability displayed in a visible location within the Notary Office.
ART. Twelfth Twelfth
When the base amount exceeds €601,012.11, the Notary shall contribute a portion of the fees corresponding to the excess amount to the Notarial Mutual Fund in the amount and manner specified by the Ministry of Justice.
Article Three
The special Notary fees accrued for the provision of notarial services at the request of the Land Consolidation Organizations, as approved by Royal Decree 2079/1971 of July 23, shall be as follows:
a) For the notarization of the property reorganization act authorized by the National Land Consolidation and Rural Development Service and prior examination of the documents: €0.090152 per page.
b) For issuing copies that serve as titles to the participants in the consolidation, with the testimonies contained therein: €0.024040 per page.
Article Four
The notarial fees applicable to the first transfer or allocation of homes classified or declared as protected under Royal Decree 1186/1998 of June 12, as outlined in section 2 of its additional provision, shall be as follows:
A) FIRST TRANSFER OR ALLOCATION OF HOMES: €60.047119.
B) WHEN THE HOME IS PROJECTED AND REGISTERED WITH AN ATTACHED GARAGE SPACE AND, IF APPLICABLE, STORAGE UNITS OR OTHER ANNEXES REFERRED TO IN THIS ROYAL DECREE, THE SPECIFIED AMOUNT SHALL BE INCREASED BY THE FOLLOWING AMOUNTS FOR ALL CONCEPTS: €9.015182 AND €6.010121, RESPECTIVELY.
C) WHEN A REAL GUARANTEE IS ESTABLISHED IN THE SAME ACT OF THE FIRST TRANSFER OR ALLOCATION TO SECURE THE DEFERRED PRICE, THE SPECIFIED AMOUNT SHALL BE INCREASED BY THE FOLLOWING AMOUNT FOR ALL CONCEPTS: €30.020554.
Article Five
The notarial fees outlined in Article 8 of Law 41/1980 of July 5, as amended by Article 37 of Royal Decree-Law 67/2000 of June 23, shall be as follows:
a) First transfer or allocation of homes with a usable area not exceeding ninety square meters, as well as, if applicable, subrogation in the qualified mortgage loan of each of these homes: €60.047119.
b) When the home is projected and registered with an attached garage space and, if applicable, storage units or other annexes, the fees subject to the cap of €60.047119 may be increased by €9.015182 and €6.010121 for all concepts, respectively.
c) When a real guarantee is established in the same act of the first transfer or allocation to secure the deferred price, the specified amount shall be increased by the following amount for all concepts: €30.020554.
Article Six
When notarial fees are determined by the value of the document, before applying the corresponding amount or percentage, that value must be converted to euros, rounding up or down to the nearest cent, as provided in Article 11.1 of Law 46/1998 of December 17.
When obtaining the notarial fees requires applying a percentage to an amount expressed in euros, the resulting amount shall be taken with six decimals, rounding up or down to the nearest sixth decimal, in accordance with the provisions of section four of Article 11 of Law 46/1998 of December 17, as amended by Law 9/2001 of June 4.
Article Seven
In cases where notarial fees are obtained by summing the different applicable fees or by applying percentage-based fee reductions or discounts (whose validity is not altered by this regulation), the rounding shall take into account what is determined for intermediate operations in Article 11.2 of the Law on the Introduction of the Euro. The final invoice amount shall, in any case, be rounded to two decimal places.
Tariff on Policies
Decree of 15-12-1950, on Tariffs for Stock Exchange Agents and Certified Commercial Brokers.
Contracting and other operations on securities and currencies
a) Spot purchase and sale operations on securities.Item 1. Operations on State and Treasury securities.- 1.25 per 1,000 on the cash amount, to be collected from each contracting party, with a minimum brokerage fee of €0.030051.Item 2. Operations on Spanish public funds not included in the previous item.- 1.75 per 1,000 on the cash amount, to be collected from each contracting party, with a minimum brokerage fee of €0.045075.Item 3. Operations on Spanish industrial and commercial securities, both fixed income and variable income.
€0.004808 per security when the cash value does not exceed €1.498262,
€0.009015 per security when the cash value exceeds €1.502530 but does not exceed €3.005060,
2.50 per 1,000 on the cash value when it exceeds €3.005060.These brokerage fees are always to be collected from each contracting party, with a minimum of €0.060101.Item 4. Operations on Spanish public or private securities when the State or the Bank of Spain is involved in the respective contracts.- The applicable brokerage fees shall be charged, with those to be paid by the State or the Bank of Spain reduced to one-fourth.Item 5. Operations on foreign public securities.
3 per 1,000 on the cash amount, to be collected from each contracting party, with a minimum of €0.090151.Item 6. Operations on foreign industrial and commercial securities, both fixed income and variable income.
5 per 1,000 on the cash amount, to be collected from each contracting party, with a minimum of €0.120202.
b) Negotiation of coupons or subscription rights.Item 7. In these operations, brokerage fees will be charged as follows:
When the cash value of the coupons or rights is between €0.0003 and €0.300506.- €0.0030 per unit, to be collected from each contracting party.
When this value exceeds €0.300506 but does not exceed €1.502530.- €0.004808 per unit, to be collected from each contracting party.
When this value exceeds €1.502530 but does not exceed €3.005060.- €0.009151 per unit, to be collected from each contracting party.
When this value exceeds €3.005060.- 2.50 per 1,000 on the cash amount, to be collected from each contracting party.These brokerage fees will be reduced to one-fourth when the State or the Bank of Spain is involved as buyers or sellers in the operations.
c) Issuance, subscription, or placement of securities.Item 8. State and Treasury securities.- 0.25 per 1,000 on the cash amount.Item 9. Public funds not included in the previous item.- 0.375 per 1,000 on the cash amount.Item 10. Industrial and commercial securities, both fixed income and variable income.- 1.50 per 1,000 on the cash amount.
d) Exchanges and conversions of securities.Item 11. State and Treasury securities.- 0.25 per 1,000 on the cash amount.Item 12. Public funds not included in the previous item.- 0.50 per 1,000 on the cash amount.Item 13. Industrial and commercial securities, both fixed income and variable income.- 0.75 per 1,000 on the cash amount. The intervention of official mediators will be mandatory when the provisional receipts or folders do not include the numbering of the securities covered.
e) Contracting on foreign currencies.Item 14. Operations on legally authorized foreign currencies.- 1.50 per 1,000 on the cash amount, to be collected from each contracting party, with a minimum brokerage fee of €0.060101.
Interventions in commercial contracts
Item 15. Personal loans or credits or those secured by public funds or industrial or commercial securities, both fixed income and variable income, provided that the term of the operation does not exceed six months.- 1 per 1,000 on the amount of the operation, to be collected from each contracting party.Item 16. Discount operations, loans, credits, or others, backed or secured by bills and other commercial documents.
0.25 per 1,000 on the amount of the operation, to be collected from each contracting party when the maturity is less than thirty days, 0.50 per 1,000, to be collected from each contracting party when the maturity is more than thirty days but less than forty-five.
0.75 per 1,000, to be collected from each contracting party when the maturity exceeds forty-five days but does not exceed sixty.
1 per 1,000, to be collected from each contracting party when the maturity exceeds sixty days but does not exceed six months.Item 17. Credits, loans, and discounts with a maturity of more than six months.- 1.50 per 1,000 on the amount of the operation, to be collected from each contracting party.
The operations referred to in the three previous items will not accrue any brokerage fees above the limit of €300,506.05:a) When the borrower is an autonomous state body, a public law administrative corporation, or a concessionaire company of monopolies or public services.b) When the loans or credits are secured or backed exclusively by public funds, and the borrowers are not banks, bankers, or general charitable savings banks.The operations referred to in Items 15, 16, and 17 will accrue 50% of the brokerage fee when it is stipulated as mandatory to have the guarantee of a Reciprocal Guarantee Society registered in the Special Registry of the Ministry of Economy and Commerce.
Item 18. Interventions in guarantee or surety contracts by separate document.- The following brokerage fees will be charged depending on the case:a) In general, the same as those set in the three previous items.b) When the guarantee or surety is presented by a Reciprocal Guarantee Society registered as such, 50% of the brokerage fees corresponding to the previous section a) will be charged.c) Intervention in the second guarantee of operations first guaranteed by duly registered Reciprocal Guarantee Societies, whether granted directly by the State, by the Official Credit Institute, or by the Mixed Society of Second Guarantee referred to in Royal Decree 874/1981, of April 10, will accrue one-fourth of the corresponding brokerage fee, according to the previous section a).
Other interventions or services
Item 19. Contracts for the sale of goods that are not typical of the Stock Exchange, 4 per 1,000 on the cash amount, to be collected from each contracting party.Item 20. Sale or transfer of rights, usufructs, credits, or receipts from General Deposit Companies or the General Deposit Fund.- 2 per 1,000 on the cash amount, to be collected from each contracting party.Item 21. Intervention in endorsements of work certifications.- 1.25 per 1,000 to be collected from each contracting party.Item 22. Intervention in the sales referred to in arts. 196 and 197 of the Commercial Code.- 4 per 1,000 on the cash amount, to be collected from each contracting party.Item 23. Intervention in contracts for land, sea, river, or air transport.- 4 per 1,000 on the cash amount, to be collected from each contracting party.Item 24. Intervention in insurance policy contracts, whatever their class.- 1% on the premium amount.Item 25. Intervention in the document or certification referred to in the Ministerial Order of April 21, 1950.- €0.601012.Item 26. Establishment and total or partial cancellation of securities deposits.- 1 per 10,000 on the cash amount, with a minimum brokerage fee of €0.030050.Item 27. Collection or discounting of coupons on behalf of others.- 3 per 1,000 of the total amount, with a minimum brokerage fee of €0.030050.Item 28. Formalization of subscriptions of private fixed or variable income securities and other similar operations on behalf of clients.- 1 per 1,000 of the total amount, with a minimum brokerage fee of €0.090151.Item 29. Attendance at amortization draws, as public notaries.- For State or Treasury Debts, €0.300506. For other types of securities, €1.803036.Item 30. Attendance at auctions of securities or goods.- €1.502530.Item 31. Intervention in operations resulting from auctions when the clients obtain the award of the auctioned securities or goods.- If they are securities, the corresponding brokerage fees will be collected according to the Tariff. If they are goods or other assets, 2.50