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EXPLAINER – Why the house price in Spain is rising twice as high as EU average

EXPLAINER: Why house prices in Spain are rising twice as much as EU average

In the first quarter of 2025, the price of a house in Spain increased twice as quickly as the average for the European Union. Eurostat data shows that Spanish prices increased by 12.3%, or more than double the EU average of 5.7% in the first three months of the year. Portugal (16.3%), Bulgaria (15.1%) and Croatia (13.1%) surpassed Spain in …

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REVEALED – The most expensive streets in Spain to purchase a home

REVEALED: The most expensive streets to buy a home in Spain

The Costa del Sol is the most expensive urbanisation in Spain for buyers of property. The annual price survey by the Idealista property portal puts the exclusive Coto Zagaleta urbanisation in Benahavis at the top with an average price of €12.3 million per home. It’s well ahead of Avenida Supermaresme in the Barcelona area municipality of Sant Andreu de Llavaneres, …

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Benidorm TM Tower to surpass Intempo Skyscraper as Europe’s tallest residence complex

Benidorm’s TM Tower will be Europe’s tallest residential complex- surpassing the city’s Intempo skyscraper

The TM Real Estate Group announced that Benidorm’s TM Tower would surpass Intempo’s Intempo Building as the tallest residential building in Europe. Torrevieja developer says the new building will have 64 floors and 230 metres of height. The Intempo Skyscraper, which has 49 stories, is 28 metres shorter. READ MORE NEW TOWER BALCONIES with A View (Artist’s Impressions) A presentation …

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€10m Costa Blanca villa is region’s most expensive unsold home- after a year on the market

€10m Costa Blanca villa is region’s most expensive unsold home- after a year on the market

The most expensive house on the Costa Blanca, and even the Valencian Community has not sold yet after a full year. It is important to note that the word “you” means “you”. Idealist real estate portal says the luxury villa plus multiple extras and self-contained apartments with an asking price of just under €10 million was first listed in August …

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Spanish homeowners could be forced to pay thousands of euros for mandatory renovations.i8

Homeowners in Spain are set to be hit by mandatory renovations that could set them back thousands

From 2030, all EU members including Spain will have to comply with the new standards of energy efficiency for residential properties. Home with a Difference Low energy efficiency ratings If they are going to be rented or sold, the property will need to be renovated to reduce its energy consumption. All properties must reach class E by 2030 and class …

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Squatters get rent collector and ‘large men’ arrested for staging violent eviction in Spain

Squatters get rent collector and ‘large men’ arrested for staging violent eviction in Spain

Police Nationale arrested a rent collector for violently removing squatters from a Toledo apartment. Four ‘large’ men- hired to clear out three people- have also been detained. The person responsible for collecting rent from tenants, along with the owner of the property, who lives overseas, devised a plan for the trio to be evicted for not paying for months. READ …

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The property boom in Spain continues with the highest half-yearly figures since 2007.

Bank of Spain warns of a housing bubble with properties overvalued by up to 8.5%

In Spain, the property sales during the first six months of 2025 have been the highest since 2007. The National Institute of Statistics reports that between January and July of 2018, 357.533 properties have been sold, an increase of nearly 20 % over 2024. This is the highest total since 18 years ago when 491,000 sales took place in the …

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Valencia Region, Spain: Nearly 12,000 vacation rental properties removed from official register

Nearly 12,000 holiday rental properties purged from official register in Spain’s Valencia region

The Valencian government has removed 11952 holiday homes rentals from its regional registry in the last year after owners did not follow stricter registration requirements. The number announced on the Friday comes exactly one year after a law was introduced to ban tourist accommodations without a cadastral identification number (NIF) or tax identification numbers. Over 7,000 more ‘removals’ are planned …

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In July, the cost of renting an apartment in Spain rose by 14.1%

The cost of renting a property in Spain soared by 14.1% in July

A study by the Chartered Institute of Real Estate (CIRE) shows that rental property prices increased 14.1% from a year ago to July. Fotocasa Property portal. The average price comes in at €14.37 per square metre meaning that the rent for a small 80 m2 flat has gone up by €142 per month to an average charge of €1,150. Although …

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Property sales in Spain fall 2%, new data reveals – but prices continue to climb steeply

Property sales in Spain fall 2%, new data reveals – but prices continue to climb steeply

The General Council of Notaries has reported that the number of property sales in Spain in May fell by 2% compared to a similar period last year, while prices rose 6.7%. 31 723 new mortgages were granted in May, representing an increase of 7.4% over the previous year. Notaries had reported a slight slowdown in sales in April. They recorded …

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