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Moving out of your parents’ house, transferring for work, finding a new place after a separation, or whatever the reason may be, finding a home that fits your tastes and needs isn’t always easy; especially if it’s your first time. It’s logical for you to have many questions about how to rent a flat, but everything will be much easier if you follow some basic tips.
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The health crisis caused by COVID-19 has notably affected the real estate sector. Experts do not foresee consequences as dire as those caused by the 2008 financial crisis, but nevertheless there is a fair amount of uncertainty regarding the market’s evolution in the short- and medium-term.
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The school term is coming up and like every year, university students are in the middle of searching for a flat to share. This time, they are also facing the uncertainty of a year affected by COVID-19 and the possibility of new outbreaks. It seems that classes will be face-to-face, but the possibility that they will be given online with or without another lockdown is also a reality. Given all of this, it is necessary to prevent conflicts by including a COVID clause in student rental contracts.
The coronavirus crisis has affected all economic sectors and among them, of course, the real estate sector, which has only recently recovered from the deep crisis it suffered in 2008. During the first quarter of 2020, the Housing Prices Index in Spain rose 1.1%, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE, for its initials in Spanish). But the lockdown marked a turning point and the post-COVID-19 forecasts are not very encouraging in the short-term, although the dip is small compared to the previous crisis.
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The coronavirus healthcare crisis has caused profound changes in our habits, preferences, and plans. The result of the lockdown imposed due to COVID-19 has affected all areas of our lives as well as the real estate market. What does this change in mindset mean?
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Recent months have been tough as a result of the situation created by the coronavirus, and this is true for housing as well. Circumstances have made it so that many families, indeed up to 500,000 people, are facing difficulties when it comes to paying rent. This has led the government to take some measures in this regard, including nation-wide COVID-19 rental relief payments.
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The health crisis and paralysation of the economy led to predictions of a dark future for the real estate sector. However, it seems that in some aspects, it is one of the few that is weathering the crisis, at least for the moment. While awaiting what may happen in a few months, the real estate market is experiencing a period of calm and home prices have not seen any big variations during the health crisis.
The brake has been slammed on, in relation to the sale and purchase operations. Experts and operators in the sector anticipate a stop in the number of housing transactions. The coronavirus will cause delays in purchasing decisions among those people who were considering changing their homes, among those who had started the process of finding homes and among those who had already seen apartments and were doubting whether to reserve the one that had most affected them. liked it or not. These potential buyers may be thinking about the effects that the coronavirus may have on the real estate market in the form of possible price drops that they can benefit from later.
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At the end of December, the Chinese authorities detected the existence of a new coronavirus (the so-called COVID-19) in the city of Wuhan. In January, the World Health Organization (WHO) decreed a global health emergency and real estate markets were shaken. To what extent should we worry about the impact of the virus on the real estate sector?
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The objective is to build buildings so that the buyer puts all the houses for rent.
It is a business model that gradually increases its weight in Spain but is still far from the importance of other markets such as the British.
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