In Spain, due to the coronavirus, the profile of the luxury housing buyer has changed; and the national client has gained importance. This could be a front page headline of what is currently happening in the high standing real estate sector in our country. As we have already seen in this blog, the pandemic has …
In spite of the difficulties we are going through due to the pandemic, the mortgage market is being more flexible by offering new products for the purchase of a house. It is true that the last term of the year is usually not the most favourable one to invest on property. Nonetheless, we are living …
Making a room bigger can be easier than it seems if we use some small tricks. Space is everybody´s eternal problem: as time passes, one gets the impression that the space has been reduced however large it seemed at first. What has happened with that room where previously everything fitted in without a problem? As …
The lack of new construction has become a concern to real estate developers. In addition, it can also lead to a hurdle to the recovering of building works in our country. This is an understandable concern as construction has been one of the sectors which has recovered best after the irruption of the coronavirus. Thus, …
The confinement caused by the coronavirus is responsible for a new housing model which did not exist before. In Spain, there has always been a great deal of interest in living in the centre of a great city where it is easy to have access to leisure activities as well as to all the services …
In Spain, the rental of housing gets cheaper after having gone through a steady rise that has lasted for months. This is the conclusion that different real estate portals have reached, after having confirmed that, during this last September, rental income in the main Spanish cities has dropped when compared to the previous year. It …
The communal areas of a building are becoming increasingly valued by the homebuyer. It is an indisputable fact that new housing, especially if located in a residential development, has more and more amenities as well as communal areas that offer interesting services. It is not surprising that newly constructed residential developments have gyms, working and …
Teatro María Guerrero is one of the main theatres in Madrid together with Teatro Valle-Inclán. Teatro María Guerrero is the home of the Spanish Centro Dramático Nacional (National Drama Centre). The building itself is really marvellous, with a beautiful façade and an impeccable interior full of ornamental motifs. It has to be said that iron …
The high degree of uncertainty we are living through, on account of the coronavirus, brings forward more questions than usual regarding the purchase of a house. Some weeks ago, in this blog we wrote an article about buying a house in pandemic times. In that article, we stated that in spite of the difficult and …
The COVID clause has come to renting and some landlords/landladies are already including it in the housing contract. The coronavirus health crisis has brought about a lot of uncertainty, and many owners have responded, in the face of a hypothetical new state of alarm, with this clause which is now being included in some renting …
Housing moderates prices during the second term of the year, and this fact is confirmed by the slowing down of prices in our real estate sector. The facts and figures offered by Índice de Precios de Vivienda (IPV), Housing Price Index, regarding this second term show a price rise, being the yearly variation registered at …