According to the National Institute of Statistics, sales of housing in Spain in September 2014 increased by 13.7% compared to September 2013, amounting to a total of 27,024 transactions. Reported Kyero.com .
This is due largely to a sharp jump in the secondary market. After a slight decrease of 1.1% in August, sales once again continued the upward vector. Compared with August sales up by 4.9% - the largest increase on a monthly basis over the past five years.
In annual terms, sales growth in September is associated with an increase in comparison with 2013 year by 37.3% in the secondary market, which recorded 18,068 transactions in September. In contrast, sales of new homes fell by 15.5% year on year to 8956 transactions.
Most transactions in September (89.2%) belonged to the private housing whose volume of sales increased by 13.2% year on year to 24,096 transactions, while the number of transactions on social housing totaled 2928, an increase of 17.7% compared to September 2013.
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