The purchase of rural properties reaches its highest figure in 18 years by July

The buying and selling of rural properties continues to boom in Spain, as more than 100,000 transactions were completed by July, marking a 10% year-on-year increase, the highest figure in 18 years. Between January and July of this year, 100,721 sales of rural properties were recorded, almost 10% more than in the same period of the previous year. To see a higher figure in the first seven months, one must go back to 2007, when the National Institute of Statistics (INE) began its historical series for this statistic. In that year, coinciding with the real estate bubble, Spain registered 122,364 sales of rural properties, 20% more than now. After the pandemic, the sale of rural properties between January and July remained above 90,000 transactions, a figure that contrasts with the just over 63,000 observed in 2019 in the same period, before the outbreak of covid-19. If we analyze a complete year, the highest figure of sales of rural properties in a year was recorded in 2007, when ...