Spain Real Estate News
Sant Cebrià de Vallalta (Barcelona), 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, Lot 1,000m2, useful area 200m2, Swimming-pool, Seaside Resort, Second Hand, in Rural and mountain area
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From the architect - dosarquitectes -. A house situated in the heart of the Costa Brava (Tossa de Mar, Girona) with incredible views to a coast bay. The challenge was to fit a big program in a volume with some formal contrast with the nature of the place. So we propose some cubes placed as if they were randomly thrown, like if they were fallen from the sky, but finally they really derive from the fan-shape of the plot.
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After seven years of stagnation the property market in Spain is experiencing an uptick in sales and prices have reached bottom.
With the Spanish economy improving, unemployment falling, tax revenue growing and a more stable banking system, lending figures are on the rise.
The typical mortgage lending rate dropped from 4.21% to 3.29% over the course of 2014 and this has fed through to buyer confidence. Andalucía and the Canary Islands have seen some of the strongest surges in mortgage lending, up 25% and 26% respectively month on month, compared to the national average of 14.2%.
This renewed confidence and interest in Spanish real estate is most evident in Madrid and Barcelona where capital flows into both cities’ commercial markets topped €2.7 billion in 2014.
The return of large US investment funds has been notable but not just in Spain’s main cities. Marbella, a popular area with overseas buyers is building on a property market recovery that began in 2013 despite Spanish buyers failing to return in any significant number in 2014 and the Ukraine crisis impacting on the number of Russian buyers.
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