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16 May 2025

Statistics on Transfer of Property Rights (STPR)

March 2025. Provisional data

Main results

  • In March, 213,557 properties were registered in the property registers, 29.0% more than in the same month the previous year.
  • The number of registered property sales and purchases increased by 40.6% compared with March 2024.

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The number of property transfers recorded in the property registers (from previously executed public deeds) in March was 213,557, which was 29.0% more than in the same month in 2024.

As regards registered property sales, the number of transfers was 121,123, an annual increase of 37.4%.

Transferred properties registered according to type of acquisition. March 2025

1 Includes the following items: land consolidation, condominium 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

El 87,1% de las compraventas registradas en marzo correspondieron a fincas urbanas y el 12,9% a rústicas. En el caso de las urbanas, el 59,6% fueron compraventas de viviendas.

El número de compraventas de fincas rústicas aumentó un 27,3% en marzo en tasa anual y el de fincas urbanas un 39,0%. Dentro de estas últimas, las compraventas de viviendas registraron un incremento anual del 40,6%.

Sales registered by property type. March 2025

Registered housing sales

93.2% of the housing transferred by sale in March were open market and 6.8% were protected.

In annual terms, the number of homes transferred by sale increased by 41.0% and the number of social housing dwellings by 35.8%.

23.2% of the housing transferred by sale in March were new and 76.8% were used.

The number of new home transactions increased by 64.2% compared with March 2024 and the number of used ones by 34.8%.

Number of registered housing sales. March 2025

Results by Autonomous Community

Castilla-La Mancha (46.0%%), Cataluña (42.3%) and Región de Murcia (39.4%) recorded the highest annual rates of change in the total number of properties transferred in March. 

In turn, and Canarias (5.9%), Comunidad Foral de Navarra (14.6%) and Comunitat Valenciana (14.8%) recorded the lowest annual rates.

Regarding registered home sales and purchases, the Autonomous Communities with the highest increases were Castilla y León (66.1%), País Vasco (65.1%) and Extremadura (62.7%).

Meanwhile, Comunidad Foral de Navarra (-7.9%) was the only Autonomous Community to record a negative annual rate.

Annual variation in the number of housing sales by Autonomous Community.
March 2025

Percentage

Revision and updating of data

The data for 2025 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.

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.

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