25 September 2025

Statistics on Transfer of Property Rights (STPR)

July 2025. Provisional data

Main results

  • In July, 209,132 properties were registered in the property registers, 9.9% more than in the same month of the previous year.
  • The number of registered property sales and purchases increased by 13.7% compared with July 2024.

The number of property transfers recorded in the property registers (from previously executed public deeds) in July was 209,132, which was 9.9% more than in the same month in 2024.

As regards registered property sales, the number of transfers was 122,097, an annual increase of 13.6%.

Transferred properties registered according to type of acquisition. July 2025

1 Includes 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

88.6% of registered sales in July were urban properties and 11.4% were rural properties. In the case of urban properties, 59.8% were house purchases and sales.

In July, the number of sales of rural properties increased by 6.6% in terms of the annual rate and that of urban properties by 14.6%. Within the latter, housing sales recorded an annual rise of 13.7%.

Sales registered by property type. July 2025

Registered housing sales

In July, 93.1% of the housing transferred by sale and purchase were free and 6.9% were social housing.

In annual terms, the number of transfers of free dwellings by sales and purchasing increased by 14.9%, and that of protected dwellings decreased by 0.5%.

21.1% of the homes sold in July were new and 78.9% were used.

The number of new home transactions increased by 22.3% compared with February 2024 and the number of used ones by 11.6%.

Number of registered housing sales. July 2025

Results by Autonomous Community

La Rioja (23.3%%), Extremadura (15.7%) and Illes Balears (15.0%) recorded the highest annual rates of change in the total number of properties transferred in July.

On the other hand, Cantabria (-4.7%), Canarias (2.9%) and Región de Murcia (3.6%) presented the lowest annual rates.

Regarding the registered housing sales and purchases, the Autonomous Communities with the highest increases were Extremadura (28.0%), Aragón (23.8%) and Castilla-La Mancha (21.1%).

In turn, Comunidad Foral de Navarra (-15.7%), and Cantabria (-5.9%) registered declines.

Annual variation in the number of housing sales by Autonomous Community.
July 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. 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 2024, as well as the annual data for 2024. 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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