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June 2018
Issue 21
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BACK ON FORM Brits lead the way as sales in Spain return to near pre-crisis levels
SPANISH home sales this year are 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 home sales inscribed in the Land Register in the first quarter of the year
(see chart on page II), an increase of 13.4%, according to the latest property market report just released by the Association of Spanish Property Registrars, known locally as the Registradores. “This volume of quarterly sales was the highest in the last 38 quarters, and you would have to go back to the third quarter of 2008 to find a
bigger figure,” explain the Registradores in its latest report. Foreign demand hit a high of 16,833 purchases in Q1, up by 13.2% compared to the same period last year. Spanish property is clearly still Continues overleaf
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