In our country, and due to the pandemic, the number of real estate inheritances has risen considerably. So much so that last November a figure, never seen before, was reached: specifically 17.157 properties were inherited. This meant no less than an increase of 20% with regard to November 2019. If we look at last September the increase was of …
In our country, housing rental offers are in the rise, especially in cities like Madrid and Barcelona. If we focus on our two main cities, the rental offer rose up to 133% in Madrid and 155% in Barcelona. These are the facts and figures that the real estate portal Idealista has made public in relation …
Spain has more than 320.000 tourist flats throughout the country. The Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), specifically mentioned that there were 321.000 tourist flats or holiday rental apartments in our national territory. In all, they account for 1.3% of residential real estate in Spain as the report which was published last December by INE shows, …
As a result of the pandemic, detached houses are gaining prominence in the real estate market. The coronavirus has disrupted our lives and in addition to causing changes at a sanitary, economic and work level, it has also changed the profile of the homebuyer. Some weeks ago in this blog, we wrote an article about …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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