Press Release: Statistics on Transfer of Property Rights (STPR). August 2024. Provisional data.

Main results

In August, 159,508 properties were entered in the property registers, 4.4% fewer than in the same month of the previous year.
The number of registered property sales and purchases increased by 0.9% compared with August 2023.

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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 August was 159,508, which was 4.4% fewer than in the same month in 2023.

As for registered property sales, the number of transfers was 92,191, with an annual decrease of 1.5%.

Transferred properties registered according to type of acquisition. August 2024

¹Includes 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

89.1% of registered sales in August were urban properties and 10.9% were rural properties. In the case of urban properties, 60.2% were house purchases and sales.

In August, the number of rural property sales fell by 9.2% in annual rate and the number of urban property sales by 0.5%. Within the latter, housing sales recorded an annual increase of 0.9%.

Sales registered by property type. August 2024

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Registered housing sales

92.8% of the housing transferred by sale in December were unrestricted and 7.2% were social housing.

In annual terms, the number of transfers of free dwellings by sales and purchasing increased by 1.0%, and that of protected dwellings decreased by 0.8%.

20.1% of the housing transferred by sale and purchase in August were new and 79.9% were used.

The number of new home transactions rose by 7.6% compared with August 2023, while the number of used homes fell by 0.7%.

Number of registered housing sales. August 2024

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Results by Autonomous Community

Aragón (9.3%) and Extremadura (6.0%) recorded the only annual rates of positive variation in the total number of transferred housing in August.

In turn, Castilla y León, Comunidad Foral de Navarra (both with -12.5%) and Cantabria (-10.4%), recorded the lowest annual rates.

Regarding the registered housing sales and purchases, the Autonomous Communities with the highest increases were Principado de Asturias (20.9%), Extremedadura (15.0%) and País Vasco (13.2%).

In turn, La Rioja (-16.4%), Aragón (-10.9%) and Comunidad Foral de Navarra (-4.7%) recorded the biggest decreases.

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Revision and updating of data

The data for 2024 are provisional and will be reviewed when the data for the same period next year are published. All results of this operation are available on INEbase.

Methodological note

The Statistics on Transfer of Property Rights provides information on the number of rights over real estate transferred during the reference month, on a national level, by provinces and Autonomous Communities.

The information on transfers of property rights is obtained from the information available in the Land Registers throughout Spain, by virtue of a collaboration agreement signed in 2004 between the two institutions.

Type of survey:: continuous monthly survey.
Population scope:: entries of transfers of property rights in the land registers.
Geographical scope:: the entire national territory, by Autonomous Communities 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.