23 October 2025

Statistics on Transfer of Property Rights (STPR)

August 2025. Provisional data

Main results

In August, 155,256 properties were entered in the property registers, 2.6% fewer than in the same month of the previous year.
Registered housing sales decreased by 3.4% as compared with August 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 August was 155,256, which was 2.6% fewer than in the same month in 2024.

As regards registered property sales, the number of transfers amounted to 91,157, an annual decrease of 1.2%.

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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

88.9% of registered sales in August were urban properties and 11.1% were rural properties. In the case of urban properties, 58.9% were house purchases and sales.

In August, the number of rural property sales remained unchanged in the annual rate, while the number of urban property sales fell by 1.3%. Within the latter, housing sales and purchases recorded an annual decrease of 3.4%.

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Registered housing sales

93.4% of the housing transferred by sale in December were unrestricted and 6.6% were social housing.

In annual terms, the number of free housing units sold by purchase decreased by 2.6% and that of protected housing units by 12.6%.

21.2% of the housing transferred by sale and purchase in August were new and 78.8% were used.

The number of new home transactions rose by 2.9% compared with August 2024, while the number of used homes fell by 4.9%.

Number of registered housing sales. August 2025

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Results by Autonomous Community

Comunidad Foral de Navarra (14.6%), La Rioja (13.5%) and Castilla y León (7.3%) recorded the highest annual rates of change in the total number of properties transferred in August.

Meanwhile, Aragon (-15.0%), Principado de Asturias (-10.5%) and Extremadura (-9.4%) registered the lowest annual rates.

Regarding the registered housing sales, the autonomous communities in which rates increased the most were La Rioja (33.7%), Castilla y León (11.3%) y Extremadura (8.6%).

In turn, Principado de Asturias (-23.2%), Canarias (-15.2%) and Región de Murcia (-8.2%) registered the largest decreases.

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August 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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