{"id":108179,"date":"2023-10-30T09:21:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T08:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/sin-categoria\/cuanto-se-tarda-en-espana-en-comprar-una-vivienda\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T09:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:55:33","slug":"how-long-takes-buy-property-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/buyers\/how-long-takes-buy-property-spain\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"How long does it take to buy a property in Spain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"table table-striped table-color-200\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>20% of buyers<\/strong> complete the purchase of their home in <strong>less than two months<\/strong> in Spain, according to data from Fotocasa Research.<\/li>\n<li><strong>22% of home seekers<\/strong> take <strong>more than a year<\/strong> to close a sale due to the shortage of supply and price levels.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The lack of available supply<\/strong> will maintain the trend of extending property search times in the short and medium term.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Buying or selling a home in Spain are not simple processes that take a few days or weeks. The procedure of finding your dream home, signing the deposit agreement, and applying for financing usually takes time.<\/p>\n<p>At Fotocasa, we analyzed the report <strong>\u00abBuying and Selling Experience in 2025\u00bb<\/strong> by <em>Fotocasa Research<\/em> to tell you how long it takes on average to buy a property in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>What percentage of buyers manage to purchase a home in less than 2 months?<\/p>\n<h2>How long does it take on average to buy a property in Spain? Less than 4 months: the time it takes 43% of buyers to purchase a home<\/h2>\n<p>The process of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/buyers\/how-to-buy-a-house-in-spain-as-a-non-resident-foreigner\/?lang=en\">signing a sales contract<\/a> for a home in Spain usually takes <b>between two months and a year<\/b>, depending on the search time and the speed of financing.<\/p>\n<p>According to the \u00abBuying and Selling Experience in 2025\u00bb report prepared by Fotocasa Research, <strong>only 20% of homebuyers manage to complete the acquisition in less than two months<\/strong>. <strong>23%<\/strong> of buyers take between <strong>two and four months<\/strong> to complete the legal and notarial process.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>19%<\/strong> of seekers need <strong>between four and six months<\/strong>. <strong>17%<\/strong> of people require <strong>between six months and a year<\/strong> to formalize their purchase. Finally, <strong>22%<\/strong> of seekers take <strong>more than a year<\/strong> to achieve it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mar\u00eda Matos, Director of Studies and Spokesperson for Fotocasa, points out that \u00abthe interest in buying has become the true engine of the residential sector&#8230; but it takes place in a context of imbalance where <strong>demand far exceeds the capacity of housing supply\u00bb.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\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":152,"featured_media":108192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"yes","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13472],"tags":[13692,16830,13548,14821,13552,13551,13549,16829,13550,16832,16831,16818,13485,13486,13547,15296,16820],"class_list":["post-108179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buyers","tag-buy","tag-buy-house-spain","tag-buy-in-spain","tag-foreign","tag-housing-doubts","tag-housing-experts-in-spain","tag-housing-purchase-market-spain","tag-how-long-to-buy-property-in-spain","tag-live-in-spain","tag-mortgage-spain","tag-property-timeline-spain","tag-que-mirar-antes-de-comprar","tag-quiero-cambiar-de-casa","tag-quiero-comprar","tag-real-estate-market","tag-spanish-real-estate","tag-tramites-para-comprar-casa"],"modified_by":"Agustina Battioli","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108179","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\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}