26 October 2026

Statistics on Transfer of Property Rights (STPR)

August 2026. Provisional data

Main results

In August, 162,007 properties were registered in the property registries, 4.4% more than in the same month of the previous year.
The number of registered property sales and purchases fell by 3.4% compared to August 2025.

More information

Annex of tables (includes information from the Autonomous Communities)
Detailed results

The number of property transfers newly recorded in the property registers (stemming from previously executed public deeds) in August was 162,007, translating into a 4.4% rise over the same month in 2025.

Regarding registered property sales, the number of transfers stood at 93,918, with an annual increase of 3.5%.

Transferred properties registered according to type of acquisition. August 2026

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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

89.2% of registered sales in August were urban properties, while 10.8% were rural properties. In the case of urban property sales, 58.9% were home purchases.

The number of rural property sales in August rose by 0.5% in the annual rate and the number of urban property sales by 3.9%. Within the latter, home purchases recorded an annual rise of 3.4%.

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Registered housing sales

93.3% of the homes transferred by sale in December were unrestricted and 6.7% concerned social housing.

In annual terms, the number of transfers of unrestricted dwellings increased by 3.5% in August in the annual rate, while that of social housing rose by 2.3%.

21.3% of the homes transferred by sale in August were new and 78.7% were used.

The number of transactions on new homes increased by 4.9% compared to August 2025 and the number of second-hand homes by 3.0%.

Number of registered housing sales. August 2026

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Results by Autonomous Community

Cantabria (23.8%), Principado de Asturias (20.3%) and Región de Murcia (17.7%) recorded the highest annual rates of change in the total number of properties transferred in August.

In turn, those recording the biggest decreases were La Rioja (-14.9%), Castilla y León (-7.1%) and Comunidad Foral de Navarra (-6.4%).

Regarding newly registered home sales, the Autonomous Communities with the highest increases were Extremadura (32.1%), Cantabria (21.7%) and Región de Murcia (12.6%).

On the other hand, La Rioja (-19.0%), Castilla-La Mancha (-9.4%) and Castilla y León (-7.1%) recorded the biggest decreases.

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August 2026

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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