Spain: In three years, with new laws, property owners withdraw 300,000 apartments from rental market
In Spain, in 2024, a total of 717,338 homes were put up for rent. The figure alone doesn’t say much. The comparison with previous years does. That’s 96,512 fewer properties than were rented a year earlier (which implies an 11% drop) and nearly 300,000 fewer homes than during the height of the Covid pandemic, whether compared to 2020, when the economy was at a standstill, or to 2021, as explained…