The purchase of housing grew 11.5% between the months of April and June after reaching a total of 160,287 transactions, which is the second best quarter since 2007, when 227,562 units were sold, according to statistics on real estate transactions of the Ministry of Development.
Housing transactions grew in all the autonomous communities between the past months of April and June, except in the Balearic and Canary Islands, where they registered a decrease of 2%.
In addition, as regards the protection regime, free housing transactions amounted to 153,569 in this period, which represents 95.8% of the total. On the other hand, the transactions of protected housing happened to represent 4.2% of the total, after adding 6,718 units.
Foreigners represent 15.9%
Taking into account the nationality of the buyer, the statistics of the Ministry indicates that the transactions made by foreigners residing in Spain have experienced a year-on-year growth for the twenty-eighth consecutive quarter.
Specifically, in the second quarter they grew by 6.3% compared to the same period of 2017, with a total of 24,496 purchases and sales.