Arancha Ibarra considers herself one of the lucky victims of Spain’s housing collapse. After struggling to find a buyer for her renovated two- bedroom apartment in Madrid for two years, Ibarra found a tenant for 750 euros ($1,066) a month, becoming one of the 1.5 million second-home owners thrust onto the country’s rental market.
The number [...]
Spain had 614,000 new homes sitting unsold at the end of 2008 - lower than most analysts’ estimates - according to the first major survey of Europe’s most over-stocked home market.
Almost half of those are clustered on the over-developed coast according to the housing ministry study, which surveyed or visited 6,810 real estate companies [...]
Real estate brokerage firms have truly been decimated by the collapse in the construction and real estate buying sectors. Only 25,000 real estate companies have survived the crisis of the 80,000 that were registered in the summer of 2006 when the construction boom was in full swing, amounting to a [...]
