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A rising number of foreign buyers, led by the British, helped sales in Spain rise to their highest level since 2014 in the first three months of 2018. Sales recorded by the Land Registry increased by 13.4% in the first quarter of this year, the highest quarterly...

Spanish home sales in the first quarter were the highest they have been since the market turned the corner towards recovery in 2014, and growing foreign demand contributed to the increase, led by the British. There were 128,990 Spanish home sales inscribed in the Land...

12-month Euribor, the base rate used for most mortgages in Spain, came in at -0.19 in April, a fraction higher than the month before, but 59.7% lower than the same month last year. As a result, borrowers in Spain with annually resetting Spanish mortgages will see...

The annual report from the Spanish Land Registers’ Associationreveals that foreign buyers snapped up more than 60,000 Spanish homes last year. 60,800 homes in Spain were acquired by foreigners last year, based on sales inscribed in the Spanish Land Register and...

The number of Spanish home sales inscribed in the Land Registry was up by 18% in February compared to the same month last year, the biggest February increase since the boom years more than a decade ago. There were 37,412 Spanish home sales inscribed in the Land...

Home sales were up 11.2% to 38,953 in January, show the latest figures in the monthly housing market report from the Spanish Notaries’ Association. Seasonally adjusted, the increase in home sales was 7% in January. Flat sales were up 9.2%, new flat sales up 11.8%, and...

EUROZONE interest rates have fallen again, ending February on -0.191% and reducing the average Spanish mortgage by €54 a year. Experts believe the rate, known as the Euribor, will remain below zero for the whole of 2018. A slight rise in January, to -0.189%, proved...

The latest figures from the Spanish Land Registrar’s Association for the last quarter of 2017 show foreign demand for Spanish homes growing unabated as British buyers return in force to the market. First of all, the overall market expanded by 19.8% in Q4 to 111,921...

Spanish home sales inscribed in the Land Registry were up by 16% last year, the fourth and biggest consecutive year of growth, according to the latest figures from the National Institute of Statistics (INE), based on data from the Land Registry. There were 418,915...

Property sales during Q3 reached 121,561 units, a 16.7% rise on the same period in 2016, and the best third quarter since the boom year of 2008, according to data from the Ministry of Public Works. In the 12 months to September 2017, some 516,643 properties were sold,...