Property/House & Garden news & information for Spain

AVERAGE house prices increased by 4.3% in 2017 to a typical €1,532 per square metre, or around €153,200 for a large three-bedroomed apartment, according to the Quantity Surveyors' Society (Sociedad de Tasación,...

YOUNG adults and pensioners will soon be able to get financial help towards renting a home – up to €390 a month if they live in a large city – or towards buying a property if they live in a rural area at risk of a...

THE first-ever housing development financed entirely through crowdfunding is about to go up in the Cantabria regional capital of Santander.

EUROZONE interest rates have fallen again, ending February on -0.191% and reducing the average Spanish mortgage by €54 a year.

SPAIN'S residential property market had grown by 23% year-on-year by the third quarter of 2017, and pending year-end results, an overall annual increase of at least 20% has been given as the provisional figure.

FOREIGN buyers spent 20% more on residential property in Spain last year than in 2016, according to the ministry of public works – showing that the country remains as popular as ever as a new destination for those...

RESIDENTIAL property prices are now back up almost to levels seen before the financial crisis, according to the official national index.

AN APARTMENT block in the province of Zaragoza is the second in Spain to win the Passivhaus Certificate, a global energy-efficiency award given to residential properties which use little or no power.

HOUSING market figures for the end of November showed an 18.1% rise in sales for that month based upon the same 30 days in 2016, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

NEW-BUILD residential property rose in value in 2017 by more than any time in the last decade, according to the Surveyors' Society, with major cities such as Madrid and Barcelona seeing prices reach pre-financial...

PRICES of pre-owned property rose by an average of 5.6% between November 2016 and the same month in 2017, according to figures released this month by estate agency analysts Idealista.

MORTGAGE loans signed up for in Spain rose by 9.2% year-on-year as at September 2017, the most recent month for which figures are available.