18 May 2026

Statistics on Transfer of Property Rights (STPR)

March 2026. Provisional data

Main results

In March, 219,493 properties were registered in the property registers, 2.7% more than in the same month the previous year.
Registered housing sales and purchases decreased by 2.2% compared to March 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 March was 219,493, which was 2.7% more than in the same month in 2025.

As regards registered property sales, the number of transfers stood at 122,896, with an annual increase of 1.5%.

Transferred properties registered according to type of acquisition. March 2026

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Sales recorded in land registers

86.7% of registered sales in March were urban properties and 13.3% were rural properties. Among urban properties, 57.5% were home sales and purchases.

In March, the number of sales of rural properties increased by 4.3% in terms of the annual rate and that of urban properties rose by 1.1%. Within the latter, housing sales and purchases recorded an annual decrease of 2.2%.

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Registered housing sales

93.8% of the housing transferred by sale in March were open market and 6.2% were protected.

In annual terms, the number of transfers of free dwellings by sales and purchasing decreased by 1.6% in March in the annual rate, while that of protected dwellings decreased by 10.4%.

21.3% of the housing transferred by sale in March were new and 78.7% were used.

The number of new home transactions fell by 10.2% compared to March 2025, while the number of used homes rose by 0.2%.

Number of registered housing sales. March 2026

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Results by Autonomous Community

Principado de Asturias (10.9%), Aragón (10.2%) and Comunitat Valenciana (7.2%) recorded in March the highest annual rates of change in the total number of properties transferred.

In turn, Comunidad Foral de Navarra (-4.7%), Extremadura (-4.0%) and Cantabria (-3.2%) recorded the lowest annual rates.

Regarding the registered housing sales and purchases, the Autonomous Communities with the highest increases were Castilla-La Mancha (11.5%), Comunidad Foral de Navarra (8.2%) and La Rioja (5.2%).

In turn, Cantabria (-15.4%), País Vasco (-11.6%) and Canarias (-8.9%) registered the largest decreases.

Annual variation in the number of housing sales by Autonomous Community. March 2026

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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