{"id":100064,"date":"2026-02-16T08:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/sin-categoria\/donde-compran-los-extranjeros-en-espana\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:31:23","slug":"where-foreigners-buy-property-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/buyers\/where-foreigners-buy-property-spain\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"From C\u00e1diz to Guip\u00fazcoa: where do foreigners buy property in Spain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Spain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/buyers\/how-to-buy-a-house-in-spain-for-the-first-time\/?lang=en\">buying a home<\/a> by foreign nationals is neither occasional nor anecdotal. In the <strong>third quarter of 2025<\/strong>, transactions carried out by foreign buyers accounted for <strong>13.58% of total property sales<\/strong>, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.registradores.org\/documents\/d\/guest\/eri_3t_2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest report from the Spanish Land Registry (Registro de la Propiedad)<\/a>, a figure that confirms their weight within the real estate market.<\/p>\n<p>But beyond the overall percentage, there is a key question: <strong>where do foreigners buy property in Spain? Which areas are the most popular for purchasing a home?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The answer is not uniform. Foreign interest is concentrated in very specific areas, while in others their presence is much more limited. At Fotocasa, we explain which areas have the highest international demand and how the market varies depending on the territory.<\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\"><section class=\"mini-posts\"><div class=\"row align-items-center\"><div class=\"col-4 col-md-3 pt-2 pb-2\"><div class=\"mini-posts__image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/buyers\/how-to-buy-a-house-in-spain-as-a-non-resident-foreigner\/?lang=en\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/How-to-buy-a-house-in-Spain-as-a-non-resident-foreigner-355x230.png\" alt=\"How to buy a house in Spain as a non-resident foreigner\" title=\"-\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"col-8 col-md-9 pt-2 pb-2\"><h3 class=\"mini-posts__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/buyers\/how-to-buy-a-house-in-spain-as-a-non-resident-foreigner\/?lang=en\">How to buy a house in Spain as a non-resident foreigner<\/a><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>This is the map of property purchases in Spain by foreigners<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fotocasa is the expert real estate portal if you are looking for your home in Spain and want to resolve your doubts about housing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":100070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"yes","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13472],"tags":[13824,13825,13692,13548,13826,13709,13786,13827,13828,13552,13551,13549,13550,13547,13839],"class_list":["post-100064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buyers","tag-baleares","tag-barcelona","tag-buy","tag-buy-in-spain","tag-canarias","tag-compra-de-vivienda-por-extranjeros","tag-consultorio","tag-donde-compran-los-extranjeros-en-espana","tag-geo","tag-housing-doubts","tag-housing-experts-in-spain","tag-housing-purchase-market-spain","tag-live-in-spain","tag-real-estate-market","tag-where-do-foreigners-buy-property-in-spain"],"modified_by":"Agustina Battioli","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}