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Market snapshot: British market in Q2 2026 – going sideways

Mark Stücklin — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 08:58:04 +0000

British demand for property in Spain went sideways in the second quarter, whilst the wider foreign market powered ahead. The result was another decline in the UK’s share of foreign buyers, continuing a long-running trend. British buyers purchased 1,876 Spanish homes in Q2 2026, almost exactly the same number as a year earlier, with growth […]

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How much does a swimming pool add to the value of a property in Spain?

Mark Stücklin — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:54:40 +0000

With another scorching Spanish summer coming to a close, a swimming pool certainly feels valuable. But how much does having one actually add to the price of a property? The answer, according to new research, is: it depends enormously on where you live. A recent study by property portal pisos.com comparing homes with and without […]

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Heads-up! Q2 2026 housing numbers just published by the notaries – A good time to sell, but buyers are becoming more cautious

Mark Stücklin — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:31:52 +0000

Sales have eased from last year’s exceptional levels, but prices continue to hit new highs. The latest figures suggest the market is becoming less frenetic, whilst remaining favourable for most vendors. The Spanish notaries have just published their Q2 housing market figures, giving us the first clear picture of how the market performed in the […]

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The notaries’ recently launched data portal is useful, but it still won’t tell you what a property actually sold for

Mark Stücklin — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:55:24 +0000

Spain’s notaries have made a big improvement to property-market transparency with their new housing statistics portal. But if what you really want to know is what comparable properties actually sold for, you are still out of luck. A much better window on the Spanish property market The Consejo General del Notariado launched its new Statistical […]

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Balearic housing reforms start to produce results

Mark Stücklin — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:10:13 +0000

The Balearic Islands still face a severe housing shortage, but a series of reforms introduced since 2024 is beginning to add new homes to the market, with more in the pipeline. Housing news from the islands is usually dominated by high prices, shortages and affordability problems. Those problems are real, but they are not the […]

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Barcelona rent controls: rents rise while rental opportunities remain scarce

Mark Stücklin — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:32:49 +0000

Barcelona’s latest rental figures deliver an awkward result for supporters of rent controls: rents are rising again, while the number of people managing to secure a new rental home remains far below normal. The Catalan government has now published INCASÒL data for Q1 2026, giving us the latest reading on Barcelona’s rental market two years […]

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Spanish home sales forecast to fall as prices surge 12pc

Mark Stücklin — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:31:33 +0000

Spanish bank BBVA expects home sales to fall this year despite strong demand, as a chronic shortage of housing pushes prices up by 12% and leaves buyers competing for insufficient supply. According to the latest forecasts from BBVA Research, home sales will fall by 7.3% in 2026, after activity in the first months of the […]

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Why Spain’s housing policies keep making the crisis worse

Mark Stücklin — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:38:16 +0000

Politicians are targeting demand when they should be boosting supply, according to a new report that argues the country’s housing shortage is fundamentally self-inflicted. Funcas, One of Spain’s leading economic think tanks has delivered a stinging criticism of the country’s housing policies, arguing that politicians are misdiagnosing the housing crisis and making it worse as […]

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Mortgage foreclosures are rising in Spain—but distress is still historically low

Mark Stücklin — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:11:05 +0000

The latest foreclosure figures show financial stress is creeping higher, but Spain’s property market remains a long way from the kind of distress that creates widespread bargain opportunities. One way to gauge financial distress in the Spanish property market is to look at mortgage foreclosures. When homeowners can no longer keep up with their mortgage […]

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Property ads are coming to your AI chats – and they could change how we buy homes in Spain

Mark Stücklin — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:28:14 +0000

The first property adverts are already appearing in AI conversations in the US. If this catches on, searching for property in Spain could start to move away from the big portals and into AI assistants. For years, Google was the gateway to the internet. Its search engine was revolutionary because it made it easy to […]

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