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CJEU Ruling Will Lead Many Claims For Banco Popular Shares To Be Dismissed
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled on the possible scope of the decisions adopted for the intervention of Banco Popular, under Directive 2014/59 in the actions for nullity and/or liability for defective information on the leaflet concerning...
Crypto-assets Do Not Enjoy Specific And Uniform Legal Framework In Spain
Ways of doing business have changed. In a short amount of time, crypto-assets have gone from insignificant to being used in more and more areas of the national economy. Therefore, given its importance, the economic and legal sectors warn ‘clear and uniform legal...
Average Property Selling Price Rose 1.7% In Catalonia Until 2,265 €/m2
Property in Catalonia is still an upward value. None of the Catalan provinces registered lower average sales prices last year. The average price rose 1.7% until 2,265 €/m2,as indicated in a study of the Catalan residential market prepared by Deloitte for the College...
Home Purchases By Foreigners Increase 42% And Return To Pre-pandemic Figures
After a complicated 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic outbreak, the Spanish property market recovered with upward trends during 2021. Among all sector agents, one of the most important was the return of foreign buyers and investors. According to the General Council...
El clima inflacionista hace aumentar hasta un 400% el interés por el mercado inmobiliario
El inmobiliario español sigue ganando enteros como valor refugio para los inversores. Si bien esta ha sido siempre una cualidad intrínseca del sector, la inestabilidad e incertidumbre generadas por el conflicto bélico entre Rusia y Ucrania y la inflación, que este año...
Mortgage signatures continue to grow in Spain against a favourable backdrop for home purchases
The property market is moving steadily towards a post-pandemic recovery that is confirming its resilient character despite a scenario of new uncertainty due to the war in Ukraine and inflation, which in turn has an impact on supply and demand confidence and on the...
PropTech: The technology that has revolutionised the property market
The property market is constantly developing given external societal changes that clearly affect supply and demand, as well as wishes, preferences, and needs. On the other hand, however, main changes within the industry are intrinsic as technological advances driven...
Catalonia’s property sector demands public-private partnership to tackle the housing problem
The Constitutional Court has deemed Catalonia does not have devolved power to determine criteria in order to set rental prices. For that matter, the main Catalan property sector organisations, with the Catalan Association of Property Agents (Asociación de Agentes...
TThe weight of russians in the catalan property market fell by 42.1% in 2020
The war between Russia and Ukraine will inevitably have an impact on the Spanish and Catalan economies, and thus also on the Spanish property market. The relationship between Catalonia and Russia has been consolidating for a decade due to the high interest of Russian...
How Cryptocurrencies Are Standardised in Spain
Cryptocurrencies have gained importance in the last two years as an investment asset and way of purchasing goods and services, even in the property market. However, the Spanish Government has not taken any action until now regarding cryptocurrency market regulation. A...
The Catalan Market Leaves Covid Behind: Home Purchases And Sales Grew 35.2% In 2021
The Catalan Association of Property Agents (Asociación de Agentes Inmobiliarios de Catalunya, AIC), chaired by Vicenç Hernández Reche -also Tecnotramit’s CEO-, and Barcelona’s Official College of Property Agents (Colegio Oficial de Agentes de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria...
Blockchain, The Technology That Will Have The Biggest Impact On The Course Of The Property Market Disruption
There is no turning back from technological transformation and the pandemic has convinced us all that it is a road of no return. Technological disruption has entered the property market to stay and revolutionise its processes. ‘The standstill caused by lockdown has...
2022, A Complicated Year For Property Investors
There are some mysteries on the horizon concerning the property market’s future. The new Housing Law is still controversial. Last week the Spanish General Council of the Judiciary warned in an unfavourable report of the inaccuracy and insecurity it may bring to the...
Maintain Stability and Restrain Upward Trends, Big Challenges For The 2022 Property Market
Despite the uncertainty generated by the coronavirus crisis, the property market ended 2021 on a positive note and strengthened its recovery with unprecedented figures since the burst of the 2008 housing bubble. Looking forward to 2022, maintaining stability and...
Tecnotramit’s CEO, Vicenç Hernández Reche, Present At The VII Tribuna Immoscopia Edition
The VII edition of Tribuna Immoscopia took place this week, one of the property sector’s benchmark events. It was organised by the Catalan Association of Property Agents (Asociación de Agentes Inmobiliarios de Catalunya, AIC) and Barcelona’s Official College of...
Property Market Forecasts For 2022
According to data on purchases during 2021, Spaniards have opted to buy homes instead of renting them. Last year’s transactions recovered and even surpassed the number of purchases during 2019 before the pandemic outbreak. Housing prices are expected to rise in 2022...
European Funds Boost Green Mortgages
One of the largest problems with Spain’s housing stock is its age and energy inefficiency. The number of green mortgages will grow this year as the Government allocates European funding to refurbish housing. 55% of Spain’s houses were constructed during...
2022 Mortgage Market: The Power Of Fixed Rate And Green Mortgages
2021 was a great year for the Spanish mortgage market. It recorded the best numbers in a decade. This recovery should continue into 2022 due to rising housing requests, savings -currently at an all time high-, and low financing costs. More than 400,000 mortgages were...
What Does The New Reference Value Consist Of
Since 1st January the new reference value is applied to calculate the taxable amount for Capital Transfers and Legal Acts tax (Impuesto de Transmisiones Patrimoniales y Actos Jurídicos, ITP) and Inheritance and Donation tax (Impuesto sobre Sucesiones y Donaciones,...
Why Are Manufactured Homes On The Rise
In only one year, manufactured homes have increased dramatically in Europe and to a lesser extent in Spain as only 1% of the market. Prospects dictate these types of dwellings will continue to thrive. Barcelona has the greatest number of requests to build...