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Spain Property More Attractive for Investors
The number of investors viewing Spain as the most attractive market for commercial real estate purchases has increased dramatically as investor interest grows for European recovery markets.
Investor confidence for Western Europe grew compared to last year, with 71 percent of investors choosing the market as the most attractive global region for investment, according to CBRE's European Real Estate Investor Intentions survey

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Espagne: prévisions de croissance et d'emploi pour 2014 et 2015 revues en hausse

Madrid (awp/afp) - Le gouvernement espagnol a revu en hausse vendredi ses prévisions de croissance jusqu'en 2015, malgré un environnement moins favorable en zone euro, et table sur une poursuite du reflux du chômage, encore très élevé.

Le Produit intérieur brut (PIB) devrait croître de 1,3% en 2014 et de 2% en 2015, a fait savoir le ministre de l'économie, Luis de Guindos, lors d'une conférence de presse, à l'occasion de la présentation du projet de budget pour 2015. Madrid tablait jusqu'à présent sur une progression de 1,2% et 1,8%.

Si ces prévisions se réalisent, l'Espagne serait un des pays de la zone euro à connaître la plus forte croissance, avec l'Allemagne, alors que l'Italie a replongé en récession et que la France patine. "Nous avons cessé d'être un problème", s'est félicité la numéro deux du gouvernement, Soraya Saenz de Santamaria.

Property Pulse

The peak of the summer season has only just passed and initial reports show that Spain’s vital tourism industry is on target to have a record breaking year.

For the property market in Spain, this is very good news; demand for holiday rentals has risen and many overseas visitors will start to consider buying a holiday home, or even making a more permanent move to Spain.

Market conditions are becoming optimal too. Though property prices are still down slightly, asking prices in most of Spain have now stabilised and, in nearly half of the country, there was even a small increase over the summer months.

It seems that property prices hitting a baseline is already encouraging new buyers to enter the housing market, demonstrated by a buoyant summer for the mortgage market. The number of mortgages issued was up by nearly a fifth compared to a year ago.

Low interest rates are also making cheap properties even more affordable. The average mortgage rate has fallen by half a percent in the last year, down to 3.88 percent.

In other news, as home sales take a natural course of improvement, the government has again turned its attention to another section of the housing industry – home owners are being encouraged to spend on their own properties, with new grants for housing reforms.

Over 2.3 billion euros has been designated for restoration work and home improvements, particularly targeting conservation and energy efficiency projects. Just to note, these grants are available to fiscal residents only.

Property prices in luxury markets in Spain holding steady, according to new analysis

Property prices in Spain's luxury real estate markets have continued to remain steady over the past six months, according to the latest half yearly analysis.
Figures from Barcelona based real estate agency Lucas Fox shows the number of transactions is increasing across all its regions as the gap between asking and sales prices continues to narrow.

International clients account for around 90% of all Lucas Fox sales, with interest from Far East and Middle East investors continuing to gain momentum. Following a slight dip in numbers over the past few years, Northern Europeans have returned in to the market, thanks to low prices and attractive investment opportunities.

The firm reports that in Barcelona there has been a steady upswing in sales in the first two quarters of 2014 compared to the same period last year. Northern Europe and UK buyers are still dominant but with increased interest from non-European investors, particularly from the Middle East and Far East

The Lucas Fox Barcelona office is currently generating approximately 30 offers per month, with approximately two out of every three being converted into sales and prime property sales price averages ended the second quarter of 2014 on €4,237 per square meter, slightly up on 2013

‘The Barcelona market has continued to improve in the first two quarters of 2014 and there is a great deal more confidence amongst buyers, in particular international buyers,’ said Lucas Fox cofounder Alexander Vaughan.

‘It looks like prices have now stabilised and the number of transactions is slowly increasing. The big change is that sellers are being more realistic and that asking prices have come down in line with buyer expectations,’ he added.

It also reports that the Ibiza residential market is continuing to perform strongly, with an increased number of transactions compared to the same time in 2013 and prices of premium properties in some prime areas are beginning to increase as demand outstrips supply.

Interest in prime market properties on Ibiza primarily comes from the UK and northern European buyers, however, interest from US buyers has doubled in the past year

‘The continued appeal of Ibiza is most definitely its unique lifestyle. More people are choosing to relocate to the island due to good schools, including international schools, outstanding properties and the exceptional quality of life,’ explained Amanda Marti, director of Lucas Fox Ibiza.

‘The island now offers 4G internet and better flight connections year round. Interest from Europeans is still high but demand has significantly increased from the Asian market, mainly Korean and Chinese buyers. There has also been a rise in interest from American investors,’ she added.

On the Costa Brava there has been significantly more movement in the property market in the opening two quarters of 2014 compared with the same period at any time since before the beginning of the crisis in 2006/2007, the report says, with most buyers being lifestyle investors taking advantage of market conditions and purchasing second homes with a medium to long-term view on the market.

Northern European buyers continue to dominate in this region and the firm has seen a drop in the number of Russian and Ukranian investors in the last six months, possibly due to the devaluation of the Rouble but there are signs that these investors are returning to the market.

‘The recovery continues to gain traction in the Costa Brava with an increase in sales activity over the same period in 2013. The market is still almost exclusively driven by international investment, predominantly private investors from northern and eastern Europe attracted by the increasingly competitive property prices in prime coastal areas, said Tom Maidment, director of Lucas Fox Costa Brava.

With prices down to by up to 50% since the peak in 2007 in Marbella, the firm believes that there are some attractive opportunities around as the gap between sales and asking prices narrows.


British clients still remain the biggest group of buyers in the Marbella region, along with Scandinavians, Northern Europeans and Russians. There has also been a significant rise in interest from US investors.

The retirees snapping up cut-price Spanish property :
Cheaper housing and a strong pound are luring some British buyers back to Spain : the telegraph

Depuis quelques mois, des débuts d’indication semblent pointer vers une amélioration de la situation financière de l’Espagne. Celle-ci est une condition nécessaire, mais pas suffisante, à une reprise économique et à une baisse du chômage dans unpays qui a connu une crise brutale. Les indicateurs que j’analyse ne sont ni exhaustifs, ni suffisants pour déclarer la fin de la crise espagnole. Ils sont cependant convergents, et de ce fait, permettent d’espérer une amélioration de la situation financière du pays
Sources : Blog Le Monde.

In recent months, the beginnings of indication seem to point to an improvement in the financial situation in Spain. This is a necessary, but not sufficient for economic recovery and falling unemployment in unpays which experienced a severe crisis. I analyze indicators are neither exhaustive nor sufficient to declare the end of the Spanish crisis. However, they are converging, and thus give hope for improvement in the financial situation of the country
Sources: The World Blog.

Spain Property More Attractive for Investors

The number of investors viewing Spain as the most attractive market for commercial real estate purchases has increased dramatically as investor interest grows for European recovery markets.

Investor confidence for Western Europe grew compared to last year, with 71 percent of investors choosing the market as the most attractive global region for investment, according to CBRE's European Real Estate Investor Intentions survey. source : worldpropertychannel

Foreign buyers delight in the glut of Spain's cheap Costa properties
Puerto Banus, Marbella: part of Spain's overseas-buyer property boom. source : theguardian

Economists signal that Spanish property market is on the verge of recovery.
The downward trend in the property market in Spain is drawing to a close and it is unemployment that is hindering a full recovery, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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