Press Release: Statistics on Transfer of Property Rights (STPR). July 2024. Provisional data.

Main results

In July, 191,192 properties were registered in the property registers, 12.2% more than in the same month of the previous year.
The number of registered property sales and purchases increased by 19.4% compared with July 2023.

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Annex of tables (includes information from the Autonomous Communities)
Detailed results

The number of property transfers recorded in the property registers (from previously executed public deeds) in July was 191,192, which was 12.2% more than in the same month in 2023.

As regards registered property sales, the number of transfers was 108,003, an annual increase of 17.6%.

Transferred properties registered according to type of acquisition. July 2024

¹Includes the following items: land consolidation, horizontal divisions, joint operations or mixtures of several transfer titles, transfers without title of acquisition, dation in payment, foreclosures and court orders.

Sales recorded in land registers

87.8% of registered sales in July were urban properties and 12.2% were rural properties. In the case of urban properties, 60.4% were house purchases and sales.

In July, the number of sales of rural properties increased by 16.2% in terms of the annual rate and that of urban properties by 17.8%. Within the latter, housing sales recorded an annual increase of 19.4%.

Sales registered by property type. July 2024

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Registered housing sales

In July, 92.1% of the housing transferred by sale and purchase were free and 7.9% were social housing.

In annual terms, the number of homes transferred by sale increased by 18.6% and the number of social housing dwellings by 29.4%.

19.7% of the homes sold in July were new and 80.3% were used.

The number of new home transactions increased by 38.6% compared with February 2023 and the number of used ones by 15.5%.

Number of registered housing sales. July 2024

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Results by Autonomous Community

Comunidad Foral de Navarra (46.9%), Cantabria (23.4%) and Extremadura (21.1%) recorded annual rates of higher variation in the total amount of transferred housing in July.

In contrast, Comunidad de Madrid (1.3%), Illes Balears (2.3%) and Andalucía (8.8%), recorded the lowest annual rates.

Looking at the sales and purchases of registered housing, the autonomous communities that presented the greatest increases were Comunidad Foral de Navarra (42.3%), Cantabria (32.1%) and La Rioja (31.6%).

In turn, Illes Balears (-2.5%) recorded the only decrease.

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Percentage

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Revision and updating of data

The data for 2024 are provisional and will be reviewed when the data for the same period next year are published. Coinciding with today's publication, the INE has updated the data for the Transfer of Property Rights series for the months of July to December 2023, as well as the annual data for 2023. All results of this operation are available on INEbase.

Methodological note

The Statistics on Transfer of Property Rights provides information on the number of rights over real estate transferred during the reference month, on a national level, by provinces and Autonomous Communities.

The information on transfers of property rights is obtained from the information available in the Land Registers throughout Spain, by virtue of a collaboration agreement signed in 2004 between the two institutions.

Type of survey:: continuous monthly survey.
Population scope:: entries of transfers of property rights in the land registers.
Geographical scope:: the entire national territory, by Autonomous Communities and provinces.
Reference period of the results:: the calendar month.
Reference period of the information:: the calendar month.
Classification:: sale, donation, inheritance, exchange and other property titles, of rustic and urban properties (dwellings, plots and other urban properties).
Collection method:: administrative registers from Association of property and Mercantile registers of Spain.

More information on the methodology and the standardised methodological report.

INE statistics are produced in accordance with the Code of Good Practice for European Statistics. More information on Quality at INE and Code of Best Practices.