24 March 2026

Statistics on Transfer of Property Rights (STPR)

January 2026. Provisional data

Main results

In January, 191,315 properties were entered in the property registers, 4.6% less than in the same month of the previous year.
Registered housing sales and purchases decreased by 5.0% compared to January 2025.

More information

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 the month of January was 191,315, which was 4.6% fewer than in the same month in 2025.

As regards registered property sales, the number of transfers amounted to 112,985, an annual decrease of 4.0%.

Transferred properties registered according to type of acquisition. January 2026

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Sales recorded in land registers

87.7% of registered sales in January were urban properties and 12.3% were rural properties. Among urban properties, 58.0% were home sales and purchases.

In January, the number of sales of rural properties decreased by 2.2% in terms of the annual rate and that of urban properties by 4.2%. Within the latter, housing sales and purchases recorded an annual decrease of 5.0%.

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Registered housing sales

92.8% of the housing transferred by sale in January were open market and 7.2% were protected.

In annual terms, the number of homes on the open market sold by purchase decreased by 5.2% and the amount of subsidised housing by 2.6%.

23.6% of the housing sales in January were new and 76.4% were used.

The number of new home transactions decreased by 3.8% compared with January 2025 and the number of used ones by 5.4%.

Number of registered housing sales. January 2026

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Results by Autonomous Community

Comunidad Foral de Navarra (8.9%), Galicia (8.4%) and Cantabria (4.5%) recorded the highest annual rates of change in the total number of properties transferred in January.

In contrast, Región de Murcia (-17.8%), omunidad de Madrid (-17.1%) and Castilla y León (-13.3%), registered 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 (20.5%), La Rioja (11.8%) and Pais Vasco (9.2%).

On the other hand, Canarias (-21.9%), Comunidad de Madrid (-19.6%) and Principado de Asturias (-14.7%) recorded the highest decreases.

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Percentage

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Revision and updating of data

The data for 2026 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 Statistics on Transfer of Property Rights provide information on the number of rights on transfers of property during the reference month, on a national level, by province and Autonomous Community.

All information on transfers of property is taken from the information contained in the Land Registers for the whole country, by virtue of a partnership agreement signed in 2004 by both institutions.

Type of survey:: continuous on a monthly basis.
Population scope:: registrations of transfers of property rights in the land registers.
Geographical scope:: the entire national territory, by Autonomous Community 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.

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