Based on preliminary data of the Centre of Registers, a total of 9,354 premises, buildings and land plots were sold in August. This stands at 300 real estate transactions per day.
The number of transactions in August 2015 was by 10% lower compared with July 2015 when 10,400 real estate transactions were recorded. However, by 9% or 760 more properties were sold in August 2015 compared with August 2014.
By 12% fewer apartments were sold in August than in July. 2,500 were sold in August and 2,800 in July. 900 detached houses were sold in August 2015. This is by 5% fewer compared with July 2015 when 949 were sold, but by 15% more than in August 2014.
The sales of garden houses were sluggish, only 72 of them were sold in August 2015, compared with 236 in August 2014.
4,647 transactions of land plots were recorded in August 2015, by 6% or 300 fewer than in July 2015, but by 15% more than in August 2014 when 4,030 were sold.
The decrease in transactions, characteristic for this time of the year, was noticeable in all major cities.
