There are 100,000 homes in Spain with no market unless they are offered at “demolition prices,” claims Bankinter, a Spanish bank.
The main problem with this stock of unwanted homes is location. These unsellable properties, which amount to almost 15 per cent of the official glut of 700,000 properties (using data from the Housing Department and the Sareb ‘Bad Bank’) are located in places in Spain with little appeal for investors and ready buyers, argue Bankinter.
Paradoxically, there is now a shortage of certain types of homes for sale where demand is strongest, in prime locations of Spain’s main cities and the coast. This demand will be catered to “over the next few quarters through refurbishment and new developments,” say Bankinter, meaning a steady improvement in the fortunes of Spain’s building industry.
That said, the Spanish home building industry is still in deep crisis and a long way from normal.
Mark Hebron-Wheatley says:
It was sad to see this happen to the Spanish building market but greed has many faces.
I have witnessed this first hand over many years. Now hopefully the market has reached its bottom, it will recover slowly, all the abogados,mayors, developers, agents, who were guilty of stuffing their pockets with Euros hopefully now fell the pinch, or have been liquidated physically or financially.
One only hopes it is a while before it happens again.
My abogados who is a Doctor of law and Professor off the same, an honest man, said he felt ashamed to be Spanish even the law courts are closed, no more money to open them. Justice has grown a white beard, if ever for those unfortunate ones to receive it.