23 April 2025

Statistics on Transfer of Property Rights (STPR)

February 2025. Provisional data

Main results

In February, 201,723 properties were registered in the property registers, 6.2% more than in the same month of the previous year.
Registered housing sales and purchases increased by 13.9% compared to February 2024.

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 the month of February was 201,723, which was 6.2% more than in the same month of 2024.

As regards registered property sales, the number of transfers was 117,030, an annual increase of 11.4%.

Transferred properties registered according to type of acquisition. February 2025

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¹Includes 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

87.3% of registered sales in February were urban properties and 12.7% were rural properties. Among urban properties, 58.4% were home sales and purchases.

In February, the number of rural property sales increased by 7.1% in annual rate and the number of urban property sales by 12.1%. Within the latter, housing sales recorded an annual rise of 13.9%.

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Registered housing sales

93.3% of the housing transferred by sale in February were open market and 6.7% were protected.

In annual terms, the number of homes transferred by sale increased by 14.5% and the number of social housing dwellings by 5.6%.

23.3% of the housing transferred by sale in February were new and 76.7% were used.

The number of new home transactions increased by 21.5% compared to February 2024 and the number of used ones by 11.8%.

Number of registered housing sales. February 2025

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Results by Autonomous Community

Principado de Asturias (27.9%), Andalucía (20.4%) and Aragón (15.8%) recorded the highest annual rates of change in the total number of properties transferred in February.

In contrast, La Rioja (-7.6%), Castilla y León (-7.0%) and País Vasco (-4.3%), registered the lowest annual rates.

Regarding the registered housing sales and purchases, the Autonomous Communities with the highest increases were Principado de Asturias (33.6%), La Rioja (24.1%) and Andalucía (24.0%).

Meanwhile, Comunidad Foral de Navarra (-26.7%) was the only Autonomous Community to record a negative annual rate.

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

Percentage

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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.

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