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Spain has 3.4 million vacant homes, empty houses represent 13.7% of the total national housing stock.
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MADRID – Spain has 3.4 million vacant homes, according to the statistics office INE. And, perhaps surprisingly, most of these are not in Madrid or Barcelona. In recent years, they have been swallowed up by the heat of economic recovery and the increased demand for houses.
These empty houses represent barely 13.7% of the total national housing stock. They are also not located in other major provincial capitals. However, this problem is often referred to in big cities. As a mantra for local politicians to justify policies such as the expropriation of apartments or a tax on vacant properties.
“In much of Spain, not a single new home has been built in the last 12 years,” says Bernardos. This mainly concerns small municipalities in the interior, many with fewer than 2,000 inhabitants. During the boom, promoters built residential blocks here on the assumption of never-ending demand. Now those places are empty. People move to larger cities in search of work. It is these types of areas that currently have the largest stock of vacant homes.
https://inspain.news/where-are-the-millions-of-vacant-homes-in-spain/
