In October, 30,356 were registered, an increase of more than 20 per cent on the previous period the year before. By the same month, nearly 300,000 mortgages had been granted across Spain, an increase of 10.7 per cent on the number granted between January and October 2017. Experts say they think 2018 may turn out […]
Statistics which were published a couple of weeks ago showed that the number of residential properties bought and sold in Spain during October was as much as 25 per cent higher than in the same month last year, but more figures which were made public on Thursday morning reveal that the number of purchases financed […]
There is no doubt that the level of activity in the Spanish residential property market has risen sharply over the last two or three years, and that the bottom of the slump following the crash almost a decade ago is now well and truly in the past, but there is some uncertainty now concerning what […]
In the light of the growing popularity among house buyers in Spain of fixed-rate mortgage loans, national government has announced that it is drawing up plans to make it easier for those who are currently repaying variable-rate loans to switched to fixed payment terms whenever they wish. The attractiveness of fixed rate loans has come […]
There may be worries in Spain about the political stability of Mariano Rajoy’s minority government, about the potential effects of Brexit and about the level of national debt, but the residential property market appears to be unaffected as the first data regarding 2017 are published. Just a couple of weeks ago it was reported that […]
The average loan capital in Spain increased by 2.8 per cent last year. The upward trend in the number of mortgages being extended to residential property purchasers in Spain continued during December 2016, with the monthly total of 20,747 representing an increase of 6.9% over the last month of the year before. This was the […]
Spanish notaries figures show that a total of 27,568 sales took place in January. This represents a substantial 26.6% increase in comparison with January 2015, and the numbers for all categories of home rose except for new-build apartments, which accounted for just 1,997 transactions. At the same time, the good health of the market was […]
The number of accepted mortgage loans has gone up by 22 per cent in Malaga during 2015 with a total of 12,075 approved loans. 2015 saw the second annual increase in a row after seven years of falls in the mortgage market according to Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE). Malaga was the fourth province, throughout […]