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The Spanish real estate sector is going through a cycle change when two alarming circumstances converge for the market: inflation, which is now approaching double digits, as well as an increase in interest rates, which has led to the fact that the Euribor index has already exceeded 3%. In view of this, it is worth analyzing whether investors continue to invest in housing and where exactly their money is directed. What bets are they making on Spain in a potential recession. Inaki Unsain, a leading prominent private investor in real...

The macroeconomic conditions that Spain and the world are currently experiencing, with high inflation and actively rising interest rates, have an impact on the housing market as well as on other markets. However, as in past periods of crises and instability, housing is still one of the most reliable havens for investors. Many financial experts believe that buying a house as an investment today is a much much safer investment step than alternatives. Victor Perez, CEO of developer ASG Homes, explains: «Although the current situation...

Location is one of the key characteristics taken into account by most property buyers. At the same time, choosing a house is one of the most important decisions in life for a huge number of people. In view of this, the choice of real estate and the choice of its location plays an incredibly important role when making a purchase decision. Many people strive to acquire not just a good house, but a unique, original house, providing that «something» that echoes a person's dream of an ideal home. Residential properties with access to the...

Auctions for public housing facilities are held from time to time in Spain. Such auctions are announced in the Official State Gazette (BOE). Buying a new house at an auction of this type is an ideal opportunity to purchase real estate at a price below its market value and, according to the Idealista real estate portal, in various cases it will help to save up to 50%. A few years ago, auctions for the sale of state-owned real estate were an event in which only investors usually participated. However, nowadays more and more people are...

To date, about 1.4 million students are enrolled in higher education programs (bachelor's and Master's degree) in Spain. 588,000 people are studying in provincial educational institutions, while they are not natives of these regions. They came there temporarily to get an education. We are talking about both students who are natives of Spain and foreigners who came to study under the Erasmus program. This creates a huge demand for affordable and comfortable housing, primarily rented, in these regions. But with such demand, the supply...

The online real estate company Clikalia, considered the next «miracle» in the real estate market in Spain, thanks to its ability to attract incredible amounts of capital from private investors, banks, funds in one round of bidding, enters the rental housing market. This information has already been confirmed by elEconomista, a company founded and headed by Alistair Moreno. Thanks to the new direction in business development, Clikalia has become one of the few participants in the Spanish market that offers comprehensive services to...

By September 2022, apartment sales in Aragon continued to remain at an all-time high. Moreover, the indicators already exceed the peak indicators of the boom times in the real estate market in the late 00s. The price growth continues, although it gradually decreases to a more moderate pace. Experts point out that the hotbeds of extremely active growth are the last «tails» of the ending cycle of market recovery after COVID-19. On the contrary, negative factors are strengthening. These include various non-economic factors, including...

By many indicators, Zaragoza is today almost an ideal place for investment in residential real estate. The city is developing dynamically, you are the location of the headquarters of large international companies and their branches, it is infrastructurally developed, has an excellent geographical location and affordable housing prices. David Torres, head of Häuse Zaragoza, adds that Zaragoza is the fifth city in Spain by population, has not only affordable, but also stable prices and rental rates. The city is much more resistant to...

The Spanish real estate market showed unprecedented results in many respects in 2022. Month after month, the market showed outstanding results in the field of investment, sales, urban planning, digitalization. The peak was September, marking a record for the last 15 years, when more than 57,300 residential properties were sold, according to the National Institute of Statistics of Spain (INE). Of course, depending on the perspective and points of comparison, not all aspects of the market deserve the characteristic described above. For...

According to the research «Proptech Global Trends 2021» for 2020-21, Spain is the second country in the world in terms of investments in the PropTech industry. We are talking about 824 million euros, which is second only to the United States. In terms of the number of companies, Spain ranks third in Europe — 536 PropTech companies are operating in the Spanish market today. The data confirm that Spain is one of the key hubs for innovative technological development of the construction sector and the global real estate market. All this...