Press Release: Foreclosure Statistics (FS). First quarter 2025. Provisional data.

Main results

The registrations of certifications of foreclosures initiated in the land registers increased by 2.6% in the annual rate.
Foreclosures on dwellings of natural persons went up by 4.5%. Those initiated on usual dwellings rose by 2.4%.

More information

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

The number of registrations of certifications of foreclosures initiated in the land registers in the first quarter of 2025 was 5,531, representing an increase of 2.6% with respect to the same quarter of the previous year.

Foreclosures on dwellings of natural persons went up by 4.5%. Of the above, those initiated on usual dwellings rose by 2.4%.

Foreclosures certifications begun and registered. First quarter 2025

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¹Includes the following items: premises, garages, offices, storage rooms, warehouses, buildings intented for dwellings, other buildings and urban exploitations.

Certifications of foreclosures initiated and registered according to the type of property

Foreclosures on dwellings accounted for 62.0% of the total of foreclosures in the first quarter.

43.9% of the total number of foreclosures corresponded to usual dwellings of natural persons, 9.0% to legal persons and 9.1% to other dwellings of natural persons. In turn, foreclosures of other urban properties accounted for 29.0% of the total.

Certifications of foreclosures initiated and registered on dwellings according to status

6.6% of the foreclosures during the first quarter were on new dwellings and 93.4% were on used ones.

The number of foreclosures on new dwellings fell by 43.2% in the annual rate, while that of used dwellings rose by 10.0%.

Foreclosures certifications begun and registered on dwellings. First quarter 2025

Certifications of foreclosures on dwellings according to the year of registration of the mortgage

16.0% of the foreclosures initiated on dwellings in the first quarter corresponded to mortgages constituted in 2007, 14.6% to mortgages constituted up to 2004 and 13.2% to mortgages constituted in 2006.

The 2005-2008 period accounted for 48.7% of foreclosures initiated in this quarter.

Distribution of foreclosures certifications begun and registered on dwellings of mortgage registration. First quarter 2025

Percentage

Results by Autonomous Community

The Autonomous Communities with the greatest number of foreclosures certifications on the total number of properties were Andalucía (1,508), Cataluña (1,096) and Comunitat Valenciana (780). In turn, Comunidad Foral de Navarra (19), Cantabria (40) and La Rioja (43) registered the smallest number of foreclosures.

In the case of dwellings, Andalucía (816), Cataluña (794) and Comunitat Valenciana (525) registered the greatest number of foreclosures. The lowest numbers were in the Comunidad Foral de Navarra (14), La Rioja (24) and Cantabria (25).

Foreclosures certifications begun and registered. First quarter 2025

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Data revision and updating

The data published today are provisional and will be reviewed when the data for the same period next year are published. All the results of this operation are available at INEbase.

Methodological note

The Foreclosure statistics provide information on foreclosure certifications initiated and registered in the Land Registers during the reference quarter, relating to all rural and urban properties. The results are broken down on the basis of various variables such as the nature of the property, regime, state and owner of the dwellings with a foreclosure initiated.

The information on foreclosure certifications is obtained from the data contained in the Land Registries of the entire national territory. The Association of Land and Mercantile Registrars of Spain (CORPME) provides centralised information to the INE.

Type of survey:: quarterly continuous survey.
Population scope:: registration of foreclosure certifications that are initiated and registered in the land registries.
Geographical scope:: the entire national territory and Autonomous Communities.
Reference period of the results:: the calendar quarter.
Reference period of the information:: the calendar quarter.
Classification:: rural and urban properties (dwellings, plots and other urban). Households of natural persons, legal entities, primary and other residences.
Collection method:: administrative registers from the Association of Land and Mercantile Registrars 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 at Quality at INE and Code of Best Practices.