Catalonia loses 26% of rental supply -40,000 apartments- and prices continue to rise in first year of application of new law limiting rent rises to CPI
For a year now, Catalonia has been a real estate laboratory. This Sunday marks 12 months since the Generalitat decided to adopt the Housing Law and declare “stressed areas” in 140 of its municipalities, later adding another 131. It was the first community to do so – the Basque Country joined later, and so far no one else has – and today 90% of the Catalan population lives in an…