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The sale of homes takes air at the end of the year and rises 1.9% after eight months of falls

The sale of homes rose 1.9% in the month of November compared to the same period in 2019 after registering 39,653 operations, its highest figure since last February, according to the data published this Wednesday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

Operations took the air in the final stretch of 2020 after eight months of declines, largely caused by the halt in an activity that came as a result of the lockdown in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Of the total sales, 91.7% correspond to free housing and 8.3%, protected. In annual terms, the number of free dwellings transferred by sale increased by 2.4%, while the number of protected dwellings decreased by 3%.

Breath’s, new homes continue to advance and accounted for 19.5% of transactions, Although they are still far from the 80.5% represented by the sale of used homes. The former rose 0.6% and the latter 2.2% compared to November 2019.

By communities, the regions with the highest annual increases in the number of purchases were Castilla-La Mancha (33.5%), Principado de Asturias (31.4%) and Extremadura (24.9%). For their part, the Balearic Islands (-16.8%), Andalusia (-7.1%), the Murcia region and Navarra (both -6%) recorded the greatest decreases.

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