Spain Real Estate News
Buying a home is an exciting step in life. It will be our home for a long time, perhaps forever, and the decision must be made by analyzing every detail. On one side, the house must fulfil our tastes and needs. But on the other, we find ourselves limited by a budget according to our salary.
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In August, they went up by 10% in the year. This was the third consecutive month of double-digit rises and the 30th month in a row of increases. ...continue reading "Average rental prices in Spain just keep going up"
The price of Spanish housing is growing at a much faster rate than the euro zone average, exceeding it for seven consecutive quarters. The latest data shows that the second quarter of 2016 
witnessed a 3.8 per cent increase, lower than Jan-Mar figures but still higher than the euro zone average of 2.9 per cent.
Both Spain and Ireland have seen strong increases in recent years, largely due to making up lost ground as they continue to rebound from the brink of disaster.
France and Italy have fared far worse, while Germany has also performed well.
The news comes as a Spanish real estate revealed its half year report showing that major cities and coastal hotspots are behind much of Spain’s recent price growth.
...continue reading "Spanish property prices keep growing"
Property pundits have been concerned that sales of newly built Spanish homes appear to be low, contradicting the notion that a solid recovery is in full swing. In fact all the evidence shows the new 
developments from Madrid to Alicante, and from Marbella to Mallorca are selling very well.
So why isn’t this translating into official figures? The reason is that home sales won’t be entered into the property register until they are fully built and have habitation certificates, meaning we can take these seemingly low sales figures with a pinch of salt.
On to the wider sales market, which includes second-hand homes, and the latest figures from the National Institute of Statistics show strong growth across key regions including the Costa Blanca, Costa del Sol, Murcia, Balearic Islands, and the cosmopolitan centres of Madrid and Barcelona.
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Buyers from abroad are returning to the Spanish housing market, attracted by economic growth that’s beating most of Europe and signs that prices are bottoming out after years of declines. Britons are the biggest investors as near-zero interest on U.K. savings accounts and rising residential prices make it less attractive to keep money at home.
Non-Spaniards spent 6.05 billion euros on Spanish property in the first nine months of last year, up 30 percent from the same period in 2013, according to data from the country’s Ministry of Public Works. The 40,338 dwellings purchased represent a 27 percent increase from the same period a year earlier, led by Comunidad Valenciana, Andalucía and Cataluña, the data showed.
Foreign and domestic homebuying in Spain evaporated when the economy collapsed during the financial crisis, leading to an international ...continue reading "Foreing buyers returning to the Spanish housing market"