Spanish Property Insight

Coming soon: Free personalised market reports for owners and sellers

Mark Stücklin — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:28:46 +0000

Thinking of selling your property in Spain, or just wondering what the market around your home looks like? I’m preparing a new free service to help owners get a clearer, data-led picture before making any big decisions. I’d like to give readers a heads-up about a new service I’m preparing for owners of property in […]

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📣 Sales fall after last year’s surge

Mark Stücklin — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:14:46 +0000

Heads-up! Q1 2026 housing numbers just published by the notaries – Spanish home sales fall back from last year’s high The latest Q1 figures from the Spanish notaries suggest the market has finally come off the boil after a powerful run in 2025. Sales are down across all the main regions tracked here, though still […]

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Can owners claim compensation after Spain’s tourist rental register was annulled?

SPI News — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:32:42 +0000

Spain’s Supreme Court has struck down the national short-term rental register, but one question remains for the owners who paid to comply with it: can they get their money back? According to property lawyer Alejandro Fuentes-Lojo, the answer is potentially yes, although recovering those costs may require navigating Spain’s administrative claims process. Following the Supreme […]

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Spain still looks more welcoming to second-home buyers than France (and Britain)

Mark Stücklin — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:29:32 +0000

Spain has flirted with the politics of blaming outsiders and second-home buyers for the housing crisis, but so far it has mostly remained political theatre. In France and Britain, by contrast, second-home owners are being hit with higher taxes. French paper Le Figaro recently ran an article reporting that second homes in France are being […]

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Barcelona shows how political meddling in housing can corrupt the data

Mark Stücklin — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:56:08 +0000

Spain’s rental asking prices are still rising, but the strangest numbers are coming from the most heavily-regulated markets like Barcelona. That should tell you something. When politicians interfere heavily in a market, the data starts to lose its innocence. According to the latest figures from property portal Idealista, rental asking prices in Spain rose by […]

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German demand for Spanish property cools after a strong run

Mark Stücklin — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:21:28 +0000

German buyers are still an important force in Spain’s foreign property market, but the latest Land Registrar figures show demand cooling after the post-pandemic boom. Spanish property acquisitions involving a buyer from Germany reached 1,510 in the first quarter of 2026, according to the latest figures from the Spanish Land Registrars’ Association. That was down […]

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Spain’s ‘major landowner’ nonsense turns small players into cartoon villains

Mark Stücklin — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:33:28 +0000

Spain has a housing crisis, so naturally some politicians have decided the answer is to make housing investment more confusing, less attractive, and morally suspect. Catalonia has turned this into something of an art form. The legal battle over who qualifies as a “major landowner” in Spain has become one of the great absurdities of […]

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The summer crackdown on air conditioning units in Spain

Mark Stücklin — Sun, 24 May 2026 06:01:01 +0000

Air conditioning units hanging off apartment façades have become part of the urban scenery in Spain—but councils and neighbours are increasingly cracking down. In some cases, homeowners can now face fines of up to €3,000 just for putting the compressor in the wrong place. As temperatures rise across Spain, so does demand for air conditioning. […]

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Spain’s housing market starts to cool confirms new report

Mark Stücklin — Sun, 24 May 2026 05:55:22 +0000

Spain’s housing market is starting to lose momentum as soaring prices, tighter mortgages, and worsening affordability begin to squeeze buyers out of the market, argues the think-tank Funcas. After several years of boom conditions, the latest data suggests the Spanish property market may finally be entering a cooler, more selective phase—though a slump is not […]

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IMF tells Spain the obvious: build more homes and stop creating legal uncertainty

Mark Stücklin — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:02:30 +0000

The IMF has praised Spain’s economic performance, but warned that the housing crisis will not be solved with more political tinkering, rent controls, and legal uncertainty. Spain’s economy might be doing better than most in the eurozone, but the International Monetary Fund has put its finger on the country’s biggest domestic problem: housing affordability. In […]

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