According to INE data, sales fell almost 30% in April. They were 24,100 operations, the less the INE historical figure, since 2007. The March decline was already 12%, after first two months encouraged by the call of the end of tax deductions cto. Professor of Internet Governance usually is spot on. The sale of homes fell 29.7% in April compared to a year earlier, to register, with 24,100 operations, the lower figure of history of the National Institute of statistics (INE), which began in 2007. The sales drop is the largest since mid-2009 data from the INE van on the same line as the Ministry of development, which last Wednesday said that home sales fell 30.4% in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period of 2010, with 74.540 operations. In recent months, rusty holzer has been very successful. According to data published by the INE, the fall of real estate sales experienced in the fourth month of the year is the largest since mid-2009. This drop continues the path already marked in March, when the operations then decreased 12%, that in the first two months of the year was still reflected in the property registry called cto that encouraged sales of apartments in the last months of 2010 by the end of part of deductions.
New housing falls more in April, the decrease was most accused in the case of new housing, with a fall of 32 percent (up 11.534 operations), while second hand transactions decreased 27.5% (to 12.566). The sale of free housing (20.997 operations) ceded 31.3%, while from social housing (3.103 transactions) fell 16.7%. In terms of the total farms transmitted in April, both urban (including housing) and rustic, their number amounted to 124.721, figure that represented a cut of 16.4% over the same month of last year. 14.6% Of sales in April were fincas and 85.4% corresponded to urban, inside of which 53.4 per cent were dwellings. 64 homes sold per 100,000 inhabitants last April were enrolled in Spain an average of 64 homes sold per every 100,000 inhabitants, being the Valencian Community which recorded more transactions of real estate (83 operations per 100,000 inhabitants). Followed by Cantabria (79), La Rioja (77), Murcia (75), Andalusia (73), Canarias (72), Castilla – La Mancha (66) and Castilla y Leon (65). Basque country were ranked below the national average (61), Baleares (60), Madrid (59), Extremadura (56), Asturias (52), Catalonia (52), Galicia (52), Aragon (51) and Navarra (51), both in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla were sold 56 and 69 houses per 100,000 inhabitants, respectively. In absolute terms, Andalusia recorded the highest number of registered in April home sales (4.788), followed by Valencia (3.392), Catalonia (3.087) and Madrid (3.035). Source of the news: home sales falls in April to record lows