Housing purchases in June put an end to five months of declines, growing by 1.6%
El mercado cierra el primer semestre del año con cerca de 348.000 transacciones, según el INE
The Spanish real estate market has closed the first half of the year with a turnaround after several months of slowdown. After five consecutive months of year-on-year declines in the buying and selling of homes, June has brought the sector back into positive territory with a slight increase of 1.6% compared to the same month of the previous year.
This progress puts an end to the trend with which the year began and raises the accumulated volume for the half-year to around 348,000 transactions. Although activity remains below the highs reached last year, the market maintains a very high level and consolidates 2026 as the second year with the largest volume of transactions in the last decade at this point in the year.
Translated by urgent.news from El Pais Economia's report; automated translation may contain errors. Machine-written — it may contain errors, so check the original before relying on it.