This is a website for buyers, owners, and sellers of property in Spain, offering reliable information and resources to help you get things done with confidence. It is run by Mark Stücklin, author of the Spanish Property Doctor Column in The Sunday Times (2005-2008), and the book ‘Need to Know: Buying Property in Spain’ published by Collins.
The supply of homes on the market below €100,000 has gone from 3pc of the total in 2007, to 31pc today, whilst 60pc of sales now have a five-figure price tag, say industry insiders.
The collapse in Spanish house prices has pushed almost a third of the property market below the psychological barrier of €100,000, according to the Spanish property portal Globaliza.com. In 2007 just 3pc of the market was below this level.
In Madrid, 14pc of the homes listed at Globaliza.com now have an asking price of less than €100,000. During the boom less than 1pc fell into this category.
“The fall in prices has left many homes below this psychological price,” explains Fernando Pinillos, head of Globaliza.com. “Some vendors have dropped their prices by 50pc since they were listed their homes.”
As a portal, Globaliza deal in asking prices, but the situation is even more pronounced when it comes to sales prices, with 60pc of the market below €100,000 according to Tecnocasa, the biggest franchise chain of estate agencies in Spain. “Today 64pc of our sales involve a home costing less than €100,000,” Lázaro Cubero, head of research at Tecnocasa, told the Spanish daily El Mundo.
Sales with five-figure price tags below €100,000 are no longer confined to small, rural municipalities. 76pc of Tecnocasa’s sales in the city of Zaragoza were below this level, 68pc in Seville, 63pc in Madrid, and 32pc in Barcelona.
“In cities like Zaragoza, Valencia, Málaga and Seville the average home now costs less than €100,000,” said Cubero.
J White says:
We bought our apartment in Algorfa in Alicante in 2005 for 91,340 euros and sold it in 2012 for 43,000 euros, over 50% reduction. My brother bought a quad villa in 2005 also in Cabo Roig for 189,000 euros and has recently been told to reduce his price by another 5,000 euros to 95,000 euros or it will not sell. Again a 50% reduction BUT it is not sold yet and he is expecting that a buyer will want to reduce it further, so again a fall of OVER 50%. This appears to be the norm and just shows the extent of the property fall in values in Spain over the last 9 or 10 yrs. I would not buy in Spain again but would rent and feel this is the sensible thing to do before taking any plunge before the bottom of the market is reached which definitely is not yet.
Nick says:
I’m looking at picking up a quad house in that area.Tell your brother to give me a shout, with property details,if he wants a quick sale !
J White says:
Let me have your contact details or email or send me a private message and I will pass it on, I know he would be interested.
Mark Stücklin says:
You can’t private message through this system. Nick will have to leave a comments saying he is happy for me to pass on his email address to you. Nick, over to you.
Nick says:
Yes Mark. I’m happy for you to pass on my details.