The Canary Islands property market in numbers: where to find the real data

INE: how many properties sell, and how prices move

Spain's National Statistics Institute publishes the two series I use most. The first is the Estadística de transmisión de derechos de la propiedad: it reports how many property rights were transferred in the reference month, nationally, by province and by autonomous community. The data comes from the Registros de la Propiedad across the whole country, under an agreement signed between the two institutions in 2004.

The second is the Índice de Precios de Vivienda, the IPV: it measures how the sale prices of freely priced properties move over time, both new and resale. The source is the database of notarised property sales supplied by the Consejo General del Notariado, and the sample covers every property sold before a notary in the reference quarter. Careful what this actually is: an index, meaning a variation against a base, not a price per square metre. From the first quarter of 2026 the base is 2025, and the IPV doesn't include VAT in the price of new properties.

Registradores: the land registry property statistics

The Colegio de Registradores has published registry statistics since 1996, today through the service renamed SEREG in 2025. On its statistics portal, the part that matters to anyone buying or selling a property is the Estadística Registral Inmobiliaria, published at different intervals, quarterly and annually, which includes, among other things:

• A house-price index calculated on repeat sales, meaning the same properties sold more than once.
• The average recorded price of commercial units and warehouses, which I look at when the subject is a business.
• The number and breakdown of registered property sales, and the average floor area.
• The nationality of buyers: on these islands it's the single figure that says the most about who is actually buying.
• The average length of ownership of a transferred property, and data on new mortgage lending and interest rates.

Notariado: the data that comes from the deed itself

The Consejo General del Notariado runs a Centro de Información Estadística fed by the Índice Único Informatizado, the database that gathers statistically valuable data extracted from every notarial act carried out in Spain, broken down and anonymised. Its property section covers the trend in property sales, the relationship between free-market and subsidised housing, and the breakdown of transactions by floor area. It's the source closest to the moment the sale actually happens: the deed, not the registration.

ISTAC: the Canarian figure

The ISTAC is the Canary Islands' statistics institute, and when I need the Canarian figure it's the first place I look. On housing it publishes the Estadística de Valor Tasado de Vivienda, with quarterly data for the Canaries and the other autonomous communities, with their respective provinces, on the average appraised value of housing, both freely priced and subsidised; the series starts in the first quarter of 1995. It's an appraisal value, not a sale price: two different things that often don't match.

How to read them without being misled

• The average isn't your property. A provincial average mixes Santa Cruz with an inland village: where you can, look at the median, which extreme values don't shift.
• The Canaries are two provinces and eight islands. A «Canaries» figure says little about a specific area, and a provincial figure mixes very different islands together.
• An index isn't a price. The IPV measures a variation against a base: you can't work out what a property actually costs from it.
• Each source is a snapshot of a different moment: the notary the deed, the Registry the registration, the appraisal an estimate. Treating them as if they were the same thing is the most common mistake I see.
• Check the period and the publication date, and be wary of a figure quoted without saying which table it comes from.

When I do a valuation I start from here, and then I add what the tables don't know: what the street is like, the view from that floor, how much the community fees weigh. Public data stops you being sold a fairy tale; the property itself sets the price.