In July the Valencian Community ranked first among all Spain’s autonomous communities for home sales per 100,000 inhabitants. According to the National Statistics Institute (INE), the figure here was 205 sales, well ahead of Andalusia (162) and the Region of Murcia (159), which come next.
Nationwide, 53,720 such property transactions were registered in July 2022 (44,691 of them involving resale properties), 8% more than in the same period of 2021 and the highest figure for the last 15 years. Seven out of ten were made by private individuals, 7.4% more than a year earlier.
In 14 of the 17 autonomous communities, sales rose in July compared with July last year. The leaders were the Canary and Balearic Islands (24.3% and 19.5% respectively), Cantabria (19.3%), Extremadura (14.3%) and Murcia (13.6%), while the three exceptions were Navarre (-13.4%), the Community of Madrid (-9%) and La Rioja (-8.8%). In absolute terms, the most sales were in Andalusia (10,932), Catalonia (8,964) and the Valencian Community (8,271).
