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June 18th, 2013
The sale of homes rose 10.8% in April, over the same month of 2012, to 23,578 transactions, seemingly despite the end of the tax credit for the purchase of a home, and the increase in VAT on the sale of new builds from 4% to 10%. The National Statistics Institute’s ...
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June 12th, 2013
According to data published on Thursday by the National Statistics Institute, 8,938 new companies were created in Spain in April, representing an increase of 30.5% over the same month in 2012. This is the second increase so far this year, after February’s rise of 3.2%. The capital subscribed for their establishment ...
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June 5th, 2013
Annual inflation in May was up three tenths from April and stood at 1.7%, according to the flash indicator of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), published by the National Statistics Institute on Friday. This increase in the annual rate is mainly a consequence of the rise in the prices of food ...
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May 30th, 2013
According to figures released on Tuesday by the National Statistics Institute, the number of mortgages on homes reached a new low in March, dropping by 34.1% over the same month of 2012, to stand at 16,270 transactions. The annual decline in March, with which mortgages have accumulated 35 consecutive months ...
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May 15th, 2013
According to data published by the National Statistics Institute on Monday, home sales in Spain fell 12.6% in March compared with the same month of 2012, to a total of 22,086 transactions, the lowest figure since April last year, when these transactions reached just over 21,500. The March decline comes ...
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May 10th, 2013
The number of companies and individuals who filed for bankruptcy in the first quarter of the year was 2,854, representing an increase of 22.8% over the same period of 2012. According to the latest Insolvency Proceedings Statistics published by the National Statistics Institute on Wednesday this week, one in four of ...
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May 8th, 2013
According to data released on Monday by the Ministry of Employment, registered unemployment in Spain fell in April for the second month in a row, bringing the figure down to below 5 million unemployed. The Ministry’s data reveals that the fourth month of the year saw a drop in the ...
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May 6th, 2013
The Spanish economy contracted moderately in the first quarter of the year, registering a decline of 0.5% quarter-on-quarter, while year-on-year its fall increased by one-tenth, to 2%, according to the Quarterly National Accounts data published last week by the National Statistics Institute. This data coincides with the estimates in the Bank ...
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April 26th, 2013
According to the Labour Force Survey published yesterday by the National Statistics Institute, in the first quarter of the year, unemployment in Spain exceeded six million people for the first time. The Institute’s statistics reveal that the total number of unemployed rose by 237,400, resulting in the number of people ...
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April 24th, 2013
According to the 2011 Census conducted by the National Statistics Institute, the number of empty homes in Spain has grown by 10.8% in the last decade, reaching 3,443,365. This percentage increase is equivalent to an increase in absolute numbers of 336,943 houses. Galicia, La Rioja and Murcia are the regions with ...
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April 22nd, 2013
According to the latest data from the National Statistics Institute, the average price of renting a home in Spain remained steady in March, compared with the same month in the previous year. The Institute’s figures show that, month-on-month the cost of renting a property remained unchanged, although so far this ...
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April 17th, 2013
According to figures released at the end of last week by the National Statistics Institute, home sales in February rose by 17.3%, to 35,486 transactions. Since the Institute's report is prepared from property register data referring to closed sales from about two months previously, these figures do not reveal the real ...
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March 29th, 2013
The number of new home mortgages stood at 25,447 in January, which is down 12.4% from the same month of 2012, according to figures released on Tuesday by the National Statistics Institute. The year-on-year decline in January, with which mortgaged homes accumulated 33 consecutive months of falls, is less pronounced than ...
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March 19th, 2013
According to the Housing Price Index published by the National Statistics Institute on Friday, the price of private homes in Spain fell an average of 13.7% in 2012 compared with the previous year, thus registering its fifth consecutive annual decline, and its biggest since the outbreak of the crisis. During the ...
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March 18th, 2013
According to the latest data released by the National Statistics Institute, the average price of renting a home in Spain, is practically frozen. The Institute reported that rents rose just 0.1% in February compared with the same month of 2012. This increase in rental prices stands 2.7 points below the general ...
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