The number of property transfers recorded in the property registers (from previously executed public deeds) in December was 175,635, which was 24.8% more than in the same month in 2023.
As regards registered property sales, the number of transfers was 99,088, an annual increase of 34.9%.
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.
87.5% of registered sales in December corresponded to urban properties and 12.5% to rustic properties. Among urban properties, 58.1% were home sales and purchases.
In December, the number of rural property sales rose by 16.4% in annual rate and the number of urban property sales fell by 38.1%. Within the latter, housing sales recorded an annual increase of 37.7%.
92.6% of the housing transferred by sale in December were free and 7.4% were protected.
In annual terms, the number of homes transferred by sale increased by 37.5% and the number of social housing dwellings by 40.5%.
22.6% of the housing sales in December were new and 77.4% were used.
The number of new home transactions rose by 65.7% compared to December 2023 and that of used homes by 31.2%.
País Vasco (60.3%), Comunitat Valenciana (43.4%) and Principado de Asturias (33.2%) recorded the highest annual rates of change in December in the total number of properties transferred.
In contrast, Castilla y León (-8.0%), Illes Balears (8.6%) and Castilla-La Mancha (14.9%), recorded the lowest annual rates.
Regarding registered home sales and purchases, the Autonomous Communities with the highest increases were La Rioja (77.5%), País Vasco (61.5%) and Comunitat Valenciana (51.2%).
In turn, Illes Balears (12.5%), Aragón (14.5%) and Canarias (15.0%) recorded the lowest decreases.
Percentage
In 2024, 2,213,295 properties registered in the property registers were transferred, 5.0% more than in 2023. In the case of sales, 1,236,491 properties were transferred (8.5% more), of which 641,919 were houses (10.0% more).
The number of free housing units sold by purchase increased by 10.3% in the year 2024 and the number of protected housing units by 6.7%. As for the number of transactions on new housing, it rose by 23.4% and that of used homes by 6.9%.
The autonomous community with the highest increase in home sales in 2024 was Galicia (22.3%). And the only autonomous community where sales fell was Illes Balears (-3.8%).
Percentage
The data for 2024 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.
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.
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