Spain's propertry price surge
 

Prices are going through the roof!!

https://spanishnewstoday.com/spain_3...0266903-a.html

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They really are. I posted this in another thread a couple of months ago:-

"It isn't getting any easier for Spanish people to buy a property, that's for sure. A report just published shows that prices in my municipality rose by 16% in 2025 (and the previous year's increase was 22.1%). And this is one of the cheaper areas in the province, even after the increases prices here are 14% below the provincial average. I could now buy a 3 bed semi detached house with a garden in the town I grew up in, just 10 miles from Manchester city centre so an easy commute for jobs (not a particularly "nice" area but not a particularly bad one either, just boring), for what a 2 bed flat in a reasonable state costs here.

La vivienda subió un 16% en Vélez-Málaga en 2025 según un informe elaborado por la tasadora Tinsa - AxarquíaPlus"

Last year two apartments in the community we live in went up for sale - and were sold quickly - for more than twice what we paid for ours in 2017.

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Who's buying?

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In my area:- French, Belgium and Polish. And the French are opening businesses, so we are going to be very multicultural.

Or maybe another answer is those with lots of money!

Lots more here

https://www.spanishpropertyinsight.com/market/

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Thanks for that!

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Mostly Dutch, Belgian and French in this area. Properties are selling quickly at high prices too.

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Your mention of Polish buyers reminded me about a report I'd read a few months ago about a group of 40 Polish families who had formed a kind of co-operative to buy the majority of the apartments in a new development in Mijas.

https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/...074535-nt.html

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My sister was saying yesterday that her neighbours are looking to leave the UK
They are a nice Polish family (I used to work with the brother in the sandwich factory in Northampton).
Where are they going?? Spain and not that far from here, they are going in with a couple of other families and will be opening a Polish food and drink shop...

They told my sister that, even though they were able to stay in the UK (one of their children was born there).
They and many others from the 'eastern' (not a fan of that word) European countries are all leaving the UK, as it's easier now to just find another cheap EU country. (They will be selling their two-bed ex-council house in Luton and reckon they can afford a 4-bed villa with a pool here.) £340,000 might buy them an older property round here, and they will just do it up themselves.
The number of Polish people who have left the UK since 2020 is well over 70,000, and it was noticeable in Northampton when we went back last year.

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It is an Iberian phenomenon...... property prices in Lisbon have tripled in the last few years - and even out in the Alentejo, property prices are zooming.

In Olhao, the Italians arrived and the French have now bought heavily...... life is changing.

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Not just Iberia.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...21f85d1626.png

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topic...doing-about-it

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OK, but this being a Spanish forum, maybe a look at the comparative increases between Spain and Portugal is pertinent....

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I thought the 'big picture' was interesting and I had never seen it before.

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Well, everything is so connected now. If people are selling up in other EU countries where it's so expensive, they have a bigger budget for housing in the new country.

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There is a theory put out by economist Gary Stevenson (he has various youtube videos) that assets worldwide are being bought up by the super-rich. This is why house prices continue to rise, and stock markets soar even when the economy is in a difficult state. Eventually there will no longer be a middle class, just the super rich and a vast pool of poor people at the bottom.
Hope he's wrong, but prepare in case he's right...