Renta 4 | According to the forecasts included in the 22nd edition of the Real Estate Barometer, prepared by the Union of Real Estate Credits (UCI) and the Spanish International Realty Alliance (SIRA), the price of housing will rise by 10% for sales and 8.6% for rentals in 2025. Transactions, meanwhile, are expected to grow by 4.6%,to 750,000 units. The context of supply-demand imbalance, the fall in interest rates and…

Bankinter | The House Price Index, produced by the INE, points to a price increase of 11.3% in Q4 2024 (year-on-year), against 8.1% previously. In quarter-on-quarter terms, up 1.8% versus 2.8% previously). Analysts’ opinion: House prices are a positive surprise and will exceed our forecast of an 8% rise for 2024. They are supported by a strong labour market, supply shortages and interest rate cuts. We expect further price rises…

Link Securities | According to data published by the General Council of Notaries and reported by the newspaper Expansión, 55,033 home sales and purchases were signed in September, representing an increase of 12.5% year-on-year. By type of property, sales of flats increased by 11.4% in September in year-on-year terms, reaching 41,712 units, while sales of single-family homes increased by 16.2% in year-on-year terms, to 13,321 units. The average price per…

Economía Digital | The price of housing was growing at 3.6% a year ago and has shot up to 7.8%. The lack of supply still means skyrocketing prices Although there are many factors behind a market as complex as the housing market, the truth is that the effects of the Housing Law passed a year ago by the Government are striking: only one year later the increase in market prices…

CdM | The price of used housing in Spain has registered a rise of 1% during the month of May, standing at €2,120/m2. This figure is the record for the price of used housing in Spain, surpassing the previous record set in June 2007, according to data compiled by idealista. By Autonomous Communities, all show higher prices than last month. The Balearic Islands (1.6%) lead the increases, followed by Navarre…

The Bank of Spain reviews the main real estate measures promoted by the Government, both in the purchase and rental segments, and concludes that they could end up resulting in an increasingly smaller market with higher prices. The BdE analyses rental price controls, a measure introduced temporarily by the decree on anti-crisis measures after the Russian invasion of Ukraine but made permanent by the housing law passed in April last…

Mathias Pleissner (Scope) | House prices in Europe may have peaked during the pandemic. The 10.6% price increase in the 12 months to the third quarter of 2021 may have been the final sprint. The last time prices grew by double digits was in 2017, a year before they plunged 15%.House prices continued to be driven by ultra-low interest rates, a lack of investment opportunities, historically high household savings levels…