The Dutch market for property in Spain
Data and analysis of the Dutch market for Spanish property in periodic reports highlighting key trends of interest to anyone looking to buy or sell property in areas of Spain where Dutch are active in the local real estate market.
The annual report will go into more detail on Dutch demand by region, how much buyers from the Netherlands spend on residential real estate in Spain, and the headwinds / tailwinds driving or hindering buyers from the Netherlands. The half-yearly report just updates the main charts with the latest numbers. The first annual report will be published for 2024 when the numbers are available in the first half of 2025.
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2024 H1
2,257 Spanish home sales inscribed in the Land Registry in the first half of 2024 (H1) involved a Dutch buyer, up 5pc compared to the same period in the previous year, and 89pc above the ten-year average. It was the 3rd best first half for sales in the last decade. 
The Dutch were the fourth biggest group of foreign buyers of residential real estate in Spain in H1, behind the British, Germans, and French.
The market share of Dutch buyers (as a percentage of the overall number of foreigners buying property in Spain) increased to 5.2pc, an all-time high.
Looking at the year-on-year percentage change in sales in both H1 and Q2 compared to other countries, the Netherlands was one of the best performers with H1 sales up 5pc and Q2 sales up 7pc, so the growth in sales increased as the year progressed.
Where do the Dutch buy homes in Spain? There are no figures yet for H1 2024 but the picture from 2023 will be broadly similar, as illustrated by the next chart.
