Andalucía Benefits From An Improving Property Market

What goes up must come down, so we’re told, but, in property, it is often the opposite. After a tough decade, the Spanish housing market is recovering, and Andalucía, in particular, is benefitting.

Foreigners constitute a significant proportion of Spanish property buyers, as Spanish Property Insight notes. In the first quarter of 2016, 99.427 houses were sold, an increase of 9.8% on the same period of 2015. And of these 12.856, or 12.9%, were bought by non-Spanish buyers.

Although the Brexit referendum, and a weakened pound, might be considered reasons for stalling, the highest number of foreign property investors are still from the United Kingdom: in the first quarter of 2016, British buyers bought 2.814 properties (22% of all purchases by foreigners), followed by the French, who made 1014 purchases (source: Spanish Property Insight).

The most popular areas, according to a recent Property Registrars’ report are Andalucia, Catalonia, Madrid and Valencia. 

Such a burgeoning market is great news for anyone who wants to make a safe investment. Buyers from all over Europe, as well as the Chinese, are seeing Spain as a good prospect. Obviously, however, the continuing strength of the demand for Spanish property has a downside: property prices have gone up by 6.9% over the last year.

Author: Louise Tucker