But as the number of golden visas increased, many noticed that it was having a negative impact on the country’s housing market. Experts say that foreign property buyers, mostly interesting in ...

People carry signs and banners during a demonstration to demand more affordable and sustainable housing amid rising prices in Madrid on February 9, 2025. (Photo by JAVIER SORIANO / AFP) On Saturday ...

Modulus Matrix, a six-story housing development of 85 socially rented homes in Cornellà de Llobregat, Spain, designed by Barcelona firm Peris + Toral Arquitectes, took the plaudits. RIBA ...

"These new tenants will never have to spend more than 30 percent of their monthly income on housing," he added. But this lottery meets just one per cent of demand. - Protests - Only 90,000 new units ...

A lack of affordable housing has become one of the main concerns for citizens in the EU, especially in Spain where residents of cities like Barcelona and Madrid say they are being priced out of ...

Madrid's right-wing city hall has a target of 15,000 social housing units by 2027. Inside Spain: How privatising 2.7 million public flats caused the housing crisis This compares with 260,570 social ...

"It is a concern that affects workers, business owners, young people, families and the elderly, because the right to decent housing has become an unattainable luxury for many," they added.

The Spanish city’s woes mirror a broader affordable-housing crunch spreading rapidly across Europe and driving inequality. Three years after a Spanish investor paid 6 million euros to acquire ...

Only 90,000 new units are built in Spain every year while 120,000 new households are created, according to Idealista figures, leading to a housing shortage that has caused rents to soar.