New builds

🏗️ New builds

How many homes are built in Spain. These are open-market homes (excluding social or subsidised housing) on which work begins (started) and ends (completed) each year, estimated by the Ministry of Housing from the certificates issued by the associations of building surveyors, always per 1,000 inhabitants.

Trend

The peak in homes completed per inhabitant was in 2006 (13.4 per 1,000 inhabitants) and the low in 2014 (0.76). In 2025, 1.64 per 1,000 inhabitants were completed and 2.48 were started.

Completed homes can be compared with the sales of new homes recorded by the INE (which also include subsidised housing):

By region

Open-market homes completed per 1,000 inhabitants in 2025.

By province

Sources: Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda, statistical bulletin: open-market homes started and completed (tables 3.1 and 3.2, annual since 1991, based on the certificates of the associations of building surveyors; the per-inhabitant series starts in 1996, the first year of INE population data) and INE, Property Rights Transfer Statistics.