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2022 was unique for the market of real estate in Spain. Demand for housing has grown not only among residents but also among foreign investors. The reports of the College of Registrars of Spain note that "foreign demand for housing was recorded at the maximum level," referring to data for the third quarter of 2022. Let's take a closer look at what...

In the first months of 2023, housing prices showed amazing resistance to the prevailing economic trends. Unfulfilled pessimistic forecasts required rethinking and changing forecasts for the local market. It is quite possible that by the second half of the year prices will still rise by 5% or a little more. This will be a fairly noticeable slowdown...

The beginning of 2023 marked important changes for the real estate sector. There have been a number of events that force us to be very attentive to what will happen to the market in the coming months. However, a number of concerns disappeared, which predicted a serious drop in the first months of the new year. The emergence of a "bubble" in the...

At the end of 2022, the Spanish real estate market was filled with doubts. With record levels of inflation, interest rates rising at a record pace for the last decades, the energy crisis and the projected economic recession, many experts justifiably believed that the Spanish real estate market was facing really difficult times. Forecasts painted a...

Americans have become one of the most active categories of real estate buyers in the Spanish housing market. They especially love new buildings and holiday resorts. Mark Shtyuklin, a real estate market analyst from Barcelona, told The Wall Street Journal that according to Spanish notaries, only in the first half of 2022, sales of residential real...

Offices have become one of the most profitable types of real estate for investment in Spain in 2022. According to the Finanzas portal, last year the profitability from renting out offices reached 12.9%. The profitability of these assets contrasts with the profitability of the commercial segment as a whole (9.6%) and, especially, the housing market...

International investors continue to bet on residential real estate around the world. Spain is one of the most attractive destinations for such investments in Europe. And this is despite all the economic uncertainty and the macroeconomic downturn that has hit the entire continent. According to a study by CBRE consulting company, Spain is the only...

The real estate market causes some people to have strong negative feelings, usually rooted in the painful experience of working with "professionals" of the market: people obviously without competence in what they do, unscrupulous real estate agents lying to developers and so on. Often in such cases, the problem lies in legislation that does not...

Since 2007, the Spanish real estate market has not had such a record year as in 2022. More than 650,000 residential properties were sold last year. However, the last month of the year showed one curious trend. Firstly, the "boom" in demand is most likely coming to an end and, secondly, primary housing may fade into the background, giving way to the...

In 2008, when liquidity in the credit markets dried up, water became as attractive an asset for investors as oil or gold. 12 years later, already in 2020, water as an asset hit Wall Street and had a huge success. Its appearance on the futures market was the result of a chain reaction caused by a certain shortage of supply and a slowly but surely...