In the letter that Pedro Sánchez sent to the regional presidents to advance the agreement that he intended to close in housing at the summit he held with the heads of regional executives last week, he urged them to Create a public database on housing. At this time, according to Sánchez’s letter, “There is no public and reliable database that allows state administrations and citizens knowing the real prices of sale or rent in their city. The only options are opacity, or some private portals, of doubtful reliability, ”he finished. But despite Sanchez’s sharp statement, the truth is that there are More than half a dozen statistics with public seal that provide data of all kinds that, according to Sanchez, would not be reliable.
So much so that the own Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (Mivau) periodically publishes statistics both for sale and prices. Mivau itself also publishes since 2020 the State housing rental price reference systemwhich offers the result of the exploitation of tax sources of the data on habitual housing leases.
Those of the Mivau, however, are not the only ones. The one taken as a reference in the sector is that of the National Statistics Institute (INE)which is published monthly. This agency, which depends organically from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, prepares its data from those published by the registered operations registrars.
With different cadence, quarterly and annual, in the Real Estate Registry Statistics From this group, attached to the Ministry of Justice, it provides data such as the price of repeated sales housing (IPVVVR), the average registered price of commercial premises and industrial ships, number and distribution of registered housing sale, average surface of registered housing, nationality in housing purchases, average period of possession of the transmitted house, distribution of the volume of new mortgage credit by type of concessionary entity property, degree of protection (free against protected) and surface, amount and duration of new mortgage credit hired by housing sale, interest rates, average monthly mortgage fee and its relationship with the average salary cost and mortgage taxes.
Other sources
All operations that close are also consigned in the statistics of the General Notaries Councilwhich also depends on justice and that also has a database with written prices.
He Treasury It also has data on the rental market because the owners, for example, must inform when making the declaration of the income of issues such as the rented property, the duration of the contract, tenants or the full income of the rent.
Together with these statistical sources attached to the state orbit, there are others from the autonomous sphere, such as Rent bail bond depositswhich are public and depend on each community; or the Liquidation offices.
For organizations such as Association of promoters and builders of Spain (APCE)everything that is to provide transparency to the market is positive, although they also ask that the private initiative be “demonized” and is subject to “constant and unfair” disqualifications.