19 June 2025

Statistics on Transfer of Property Rights (STPR)

April 2025. Provisional data

Main results

In April, the number of property transfers registered was 185,546 properties, or 3.5% fewer than in the same month of the previous year.
The number of registered property sales and purchases increased by 2.3% compared to April 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 April was 185,546, which was 3.5% fewer than in the same month in 2024.

As regards registered property sales, the number of transfers was 106,069, an annual increase of 1.9%.

Transferred properties registered according to type of acquisition. April 2025

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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

87.4% of registered sales in April were urban properties and 12.6% were rural properties. In the case of urban property sales, 58.6% were house purchases and sales.

In April, the number of rural property sales decreased by 4.2% in the annual rate, while the number of urban property sales rose by 2.9%. Within the latter, housing sales recorded an annual rise of 2.3%.

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Registered housing sales

93.0% of the housing transferred by sale in April were free and 7.0% were protected.

In annual terms, the number of homes transferred by sale increased by 2.3% and the number of social housing dwellings by 1.9%.

21.0% of the housing transferred by sale and purchase in April were new and 79.0% were used.

The number of new home transactions increased by 7.2% compared with April 2024 and the number of used ones by 1.0%.

Number of registered housing sales. April 2025

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Results by Autonomous Community

La Rioja (16.7%%), Comunidad de Madrid (14.0%) and Región de Murcia (10.5%) recorded the highest annual rates of change in the total number of properties transferred in April.

In turn, Canarias (-23.0%), Cantabria (-17.2%) and Castilla y León (-13.8%) registered the lowest annual rates.

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On the other hand, Canarias (-19.3%), Illes Balears (-11.0%) and Principado de Asturias (-9.7%) recorded the highest decreases.

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April 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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