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- Posted on 12/09/2025.
Catalonia expands the body of inspectors to monitor the rent cap
The Government has authorized 100 new places with a budget of 5.9 million euros.
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- Posted on 05/09/2025.
Mortgage lending soars to levels not seen since 2011
During the first half of the year, banks granted 243,257 loans with a home as collateral, almost 25% more than in the same period last year.
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- Posted on 20/06/2025.
The Housing Law doesn't work: new rental contracts in Catalonia are plummeting.
In the first quarter of the year, 27,716 contracts were formalized in the region, almost 7,000 fewer than the previous year. This is the lowest figure since the summer of 2010.
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- Posted on 06/06/2025.
The real estate sector rejects intervention, calls for financing facilities and speed in unlocking land.
Financing is one of the main bottlenecks for developing projects
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- Posted on 23/05/2025.
The real estate sector is criticizing the PSOE's housing measures and doubts they can be approved.
Companies and executives believe the government lacks parliamentary support to push through the bill, which includes most of the measures announced by Pedro Sánchez in January.
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- In April, the Euribor marked its biggest drop since 2009 and accelerated the reductions in mortgages
- Chaos in the rental housing market in Catalonia: supply falls by 58% and prices rise by 55%.
- What do the buyer and seller of a home pay? All expenses
- The market expects another rate cut at Thursday's ECB meeting.
- Experts see the increase in property tax in Catalonia as a tax-revenue measure that could further increase housing costs.
- Half of the owners who do not renew their tenants' contracts do so to sell the apartment.
- Real estate agencies are calling for a reduction of the property tax (ITP) to 2.5% for first-time home purchases in Spain.
- Barcelona judges agree that cutting off electricity or water in occupied homes will not be considered a crime of coercion.
- The law requiring large property owners to register in Catalonia comes into force
- Catalonia agrees to raise the ITP for home purchases: large homeowners will pay up to 20%
- Housing returns to the 'happy' beginning of the century after the fall of the Euribor: why in 2024 as many houses were sold as in the 2007 bubble
- The demand to buy a home grows by 39% but the supply continues to decline and houses are sold on average in 73 days
- Experts call for the housing law to be reformulated before rent becomes a time bomb
- The Barcelona APIs warn: “The situation is going to get worse if we continue managing the market in the same way”
- Housing advances in the "regulation" to limit temporary rental contracts after the failure of Sumar's proposal
- CaixaBank has commercialized mortgages linked to State guarantees so that young people and families can buy their first home.
- Home sales and mortgages hit two-year highs in July, notaries say
- A Government guarantee of up to 20% so that young people and families can buy a home
- The Parliament overturns the regulation of seasonal rentals
- Bonuses to buy a house in Catalonia
- Sales and mortgages increase in the first months of 2024
- The keys to the new law that tightens seasonal and room rentals in Catalonia
- Widespread criticism in the real estate sector of the housing law and the limit on rental income
- The BOE publishes the stressed areas in Catalonia and the Government's rental index
- The Government authorizes 20% guarantees for young people and families with minors in their care for the purchase of their first home
- Todo lo que debes saber sobre el índice de referencia del precio del alquiler
- Buy or rent? A Tecnocasa study concludes that paying a mortgage is always more profitable
- The Housing Law has not improved access to renting or buying, according to Funcas
- Vox proposes eliminating VAT on the purchase of first homes
- The mortgage war is reactivated at the start of the year: fixed rates return below 3%
- The Government proposes to "shield" the public housing stock so that it can never be sold at a free price
- The new ECB rate cut will bring more and better mortgages
- The 131 municipalities that from now on will also have caps on rental prices
- The PP communities refuse to “intervene” in the rental price and call the Housing Minister's notice “blackmail”
- What does the Technical Building Inspection consist of and who does it affect?
- How to pay a mortgage early and what factors you should take into account
- When is it interesting to pay off your mortgage before the end of the year?
- Can you sell a home with a mortgage to buy another? This is what experts recommend
- The Euribor is close to 1% in July, but moderates its growth despite the ECB's rate hike and the rise in fixed mortgages
- The Justice endorses for the first time the fines to a real estate agent for refusing to rent to migrants
- Bloomberg: the risk of the real estate bubble bursting stalks several countries (and Spain is not one of them)
- The 2% limit on rent increases is extended until the end of 2022
- The data of the day: The sale of houses rose 53.5% in July and marks its highest figure in 13 years
- Annihilation of the offer and no effectiveness: experts assess the rental limit one year later
- One year of the Catalan rental law: similar price drops to other markets, but a dramatic cut in supply
- Mortgages soar due to the new real estate boom and the all-time low in interest rates
- Goodbye to article 28 of the Mortgage Law: inherited homes will be sold without limitations and at market price
- Catalonia's new rental law comes into force this Tuesday
- The end of the state of alarm reactivated the sale of homes in July, although it is still well below pre-COVID levels
- The Catalan parliament approves the control of the rental price
- Buying or renting in times of coronavirus, what compensates more?
- 44% of Spaniards are not happy with their current home
- Phase 1 in real estate: what can we do and what services can we obtain?
- The price of housing in Spain will fall between 3% and 3.5% in 2020, according to S&P
- How to visit homes for sale or for rent in full confinement
- Real estate agencies may open their premises by appointment, foreseeably on May 4
- The Supreme Court rejects capital gains when it is confiscated
- 50% reduction in rents for hotel and catering establishments by decree
- Variable mortgages in 2021
- The coronavirus will cause the price of housing to fall by up to 7% in Spain in 2021.
- The Euribor closes November with its fourth consecutive record and continues to lower mortgages
- The Government intervenes in the rental market to help bars, restaurants and shops
- Home sales rose 6.8% in August, the first positive figure of the year
- The fear of a new confinement and the contained demand intensify the purchase of housing
- A study by the Fundació predicted a different correction according to the municipalities and the types of immobles
- Promotion brings to light the real rental price: 819 euros on average in Madrid and 769 in Barcelona
- How the property is taxed in the IRPF if it is rented, sublet or sold
- Expenses and taxes for the purchase of a home in 2019 ... with or without a mortgage
- The price of second-hand housing falls 0.5% in August
- The Bank of Spain refuses to intervene rents and calls for policies to increase the 'stock'
- Catalonia limits the rental price: how it is regulated and why it will be detrimental to the tenant
- Notaries: the sale of homes fell by 2.9% in March, almost three and a half years later
- New mortgage law: this is the information that the bank must give to the client while his loan lasts
- Real estate companies predict that the price of housing for sale and rent will stabilize by 2019
- Housing, an investment opportunity: its price will continue to rise over the next three years
- The purchase of homes fell 0.2% in January due to the downturn of the second hand
- The Government returns to the burden: approves the rent reform and a price index
- The final and most unknown changes of the new mortgage law
- The mortgage law passes the filter of the Senate: these are the most relevant changes for the mortgaged.
- This is how the express legal system works to kick professional squatters in 30 days
- The limits to the rent and the possible rise of interest rates of the BCE favor the moderation of the prices of the house in Spain
- What happens with the rental contracts once the decree of the Housing in the Congress has been rejected?
- Six out of ten tenants already believe that it pays more to pay a mortgage than a rent.
- This is what awaits the real estate market in 2019
- Experts predict that the price of housing will moderate its growth in 2019.
- The number of mortgages rises 3.9% in June, of which almost 4 out of 10 were at fixed interest rates
- The price of housing fell in July for the first time in almost two years
- The purchase of housing shot up 16.2% in July and recorded the third best data of the last decade
- The price of housing will continue in 2021 below the level of the boom ... after seven years of increases, according to S & P
- The firm of fixed mortgages beats record: it marks maximums in April and it is prepared for a historical year
- The purchase of housing shoots 29.7% in April after the Easter break
- Buy a house in 2018: is it a good time to buy a mortgage?
- The average price of free housing grew 2.7% in the first quarter, according to Fomento
- Real estate investment in Spain grows 9% in 2017, up to 9,200 million euros.
- Municipal goodwill: Whoever sells a house with losses no longer taxes.
- The purchase of homes soared 23.1% in January.
- More fixed rate, more transparency and changes in the Euribor: what awaits mortgages in 2018
- Mortgages on homes rise 9.7% in 2017, to its highest figure since 2011
- All there is to know before putting a flat for rent.
- The housing mortgage firm reaches its highest figure in 7 years
- This is how mortgages will be from now on.
- Fixed mortgages beat hiring record: in Catalonia, Murcia and Asturias they already outperform the variables
- The bank will pay the AJD of the new mortgages but will make them more expensive
- Floors are sold with a 7% discount on the exit price
- New aid plan to improve the energy efficiency of buildings
- Real estate investment reaches almost 14,000 million at the end of 2017, 45% more than the previous year
- What documentation should we take into account when buying a home?
- The profitability of real estate investments
- Why we are talking about a new real estate cycle