House sales in Spain fell by 25% in 2009 <\/p>\n
According to figures published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) house sales fell by 24.9% in 2009 compared to 2008. Figures released by the INE show that there were a total of 414,811 house sales in 2009 \u2013 53.2% for new housing and 46.8% for used housing. <\/p>\n
In 2009, 220,663 new houses were sold \u2013 a fall of 20.6% compared to 194,178 for used houses which is a fall of 29.1%. <\/p>\n
Out of the total number of sales 89.7% were for private housing although sales in this sector of the housing market also fell by 26% to 372,192 transactions while a total of 42,619 sales for government subsidised housing (VPO) were registered which is a fall of 13.6%. <\/p>\n
The fall in house sales in 2009 was less than in 2008 when sales fell by 28.6% partly due to the fact that house sales picked up during the last few months of last year. <\/p>\n
In December 2009, house sales fell by 0.3% compared to the same period in 2008 which is the smallest fall since records began. In fact since records began house sales have fallen by less than 10% only four times – April 2008 (-7.1%), August 2009 (-9.9%), November 2009 (-2.6%) and in December 2009 (- 0.3%). Normally house sales have fallen above 20% with the maximum fall in sales registered in April 2009 (- 47.6%). <\/p>\n
House sales fell by 7.7% in December compared to November 2009 which is in sharp contrast with the increase of 5% in sales registered in November. <\/p>\n
In 2009, the highest number of house sales per 100,000 inhabitants was registered in La Rioja (1,840), Cantabria (1,653) and Murcia (1,580).<\/p>\n
Out of all the house sales registered in 2009 57.3% were in Andaluc\u00eda (86,916), the Valencian region (54,062), Madrid (51,302) and Catalonia (45,545).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
House sales in Spain fell by 25% in 2009 According to figures published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) house sales fell by 24.9% in 2009 compared to 2008. Figures released by the INE show that there were a total of 414,811 house sales in 2009 \u2013 53.2% for new housing and 46.8% for used housing. In 2009, 220,663 new houses were sold \u2013 a fall of 20.6% compared to 194,178 for used houses which is a fall of 29.1%. Out of the total number of sales 89.7% were for private housing although sales in this sector of the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"yoast_head":"\n