14 July 2026

Statistics on Transfer of Property Rights (STPR)

May 2026. Provisional data

Main results

In May, 200,172 properties were registered in the property registers, 2.6% fewer than in the same month of the previous year.
Registered housing sales decreased by 7.3% as compared with May 2025.

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 March was 200,172, which was 2.6% less than in the same month of 2025.

As for registered property sales, the number of transfers was 111,768, with an annual decrease of 5.5%.

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¹Includes: land consolidation, land divisions, joint operations or mixtures of several transfer orders, transfers without title of acquisition, dation in payment, foreclosures and judicial foreclosures.

Sales recorded in land registers

86.5% of registered sales in May were urban properties and 13.5% were rural properties. In the case of urban property sales, 58.4% were house purchases and sales.

In May, the number of rustic property sales increased by 1.2% in the annual rate, while the number of urban property sales fell by 6.4%. Within the latter, housing sales and purchases recorded an annual decrease of 7.3%.

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Registered housing sales

93.6% of the housing transferred by sale in May were free and 6.4% were protected.

In annual terms, the number of transfers of free dwellings by sales and purchasing decreased by 7.2% in May in the annual rate, while that of protected dwellings decreased by 8.3%.

21.1% of the housing transferred by sale and purchase in May were new and 78.9% were used.

The number of new home transactions decreased by 6.0% compared with May 2025 and the number of used ones by 7.6%.

Number of registered housing sales. May 2026

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Results by Autonomous Community

Castilla - La Mancha (16.5%), Canarias (7.0%) and Andalucía (4.2%) recorded the highest annual rates of change in the total number of properties transferred in May.

In contrast, La Rioja (-15.1%), Illes Balears (-11.8%) and Cantabria and Región de Murcia (both at -11.3%), registered the lowest annual rates.

Looking at the sales and purchases of registered housing, the autonomous communities that presented increases were Extremadura (2.6%) and Andalucía (2.2%).

In contrast, Cantabria (-28.6%), Región de Murcia (-19.1%) and Illes Balears (-16.8%) had the largest decreases.

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Percentage

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Revision and updating of data

The data for 2026 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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