The housing market is moving steadily. Above all, on the side of buying and selling, which undoubtedly follows the wake of the mortgage loan (32.8% more in July). The number of transactions between April and June of this year 2017 amounted to 141,582 operations, 14.7% more than in the same period of 2016, according to the Real Estate Transaction Statistics of the Ministry of Public Works. In addition, this figure is the highest in a second quarter since 2010.
Of the total sealed operations, 90.6% (128,833) corresponded to second-hand homes; and the remaining 9.4% (12,749) to new building properties. In both cases, the number has grown at a year-on-year rate. Up to 15.7% more transactions were recorded in the used segment and 4.9% in the new segment.