Before buying a house in Spain it is important to estimate the taxes you will have to pay, not only when you actually purchase your Spanish property, but also local taxes and housing rates which are paid on a yearly basis by all home owners in Spain. Spanish housing yearly rates depend on the value of the house and the area it is in, but here is a rough guide to all the tax expenses you will need to take into account when deciding what house to buy.
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The Spanish property market has reached a crossroads after its decade-long boom. The signals coming from the market are mixed, and the question as to what will happen next has been a popular topic in the Spanish and international press during June.
According to an article in ‘Expansion’ – a financial daily – sales of holiday properties on the Costa del Sol have fallen by 50%, due to a cocktail of high prices, rising interest rates, and increasing competition from alternative destinations such as Morocco, Mexico, and Bulgaria.
Most experts agree that Spain’s real estate boom is coming to an end, that too many new homes are being built, and that Spain’s economy is too dependent on the real estate sector for economic growth.
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The housing prices will rise 10 % within this year.
Although there keep on being important numbers, the Caixa announce that housing prices are submerging a deceleration which will continue during the next three or four years and which will favor the soft landing of the sector. This downturn in the prices is, above all, due to the progressive increase of the types of interest of reference marked by the Central Bank of Europe.
Eight out of ten Europeans who seek holidays apartments choose the Costa del Sol.
The coast of Malaga is the favourite of all coastal destinations for Spanish and foreign people to invest in. A recent report shows that international investment decreased while national investment increased.
Eight out of ten Europeans who wish to invest in a holiday home contemplate the Costa del Sol. That is why the coast of Malaga is the main Andalusian destination in this sector and this catapults Spain to rank second, behind Italy, having the largest amount of holiday properties. Holiday properties amount to almost 4 million houses, which makes up 16% of the total of houses that exist in Spain.
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According to a report published by the Association of Real estate agents of Vizcaya, the new flat buyers are primarily looking for the right type of neighbourhood (facilities, communications and roads), and only secondary for the price, the square metres of the flat and the quality of the material.
The highest residential tower of Europe will be located in Benidorm
If someone thought that Benidorm buildings have reached its final height is mistaken. In the next 4 years the emblematical city will increase the number of its sky-scrapers with the construction of which will be the highest residential building in Europe. The tower, which will be called “in tempo”, will be erected on a podium. It will be 200 meters high and will have 47 floors. It will be formed from two towers that merge in the upper part and therefore forms an inverted cone. The construction area for this building will have 54.363 square meters in a parcel of only 12.950 square meters. It is estimated that it will be finished in 40 month, in spring of 2009.
Real estates prefer Internet.
Advertising investment of real estate groups won’t be exclusively of press anymore. In United States, online media will exceed press in 2009, according to Borrel Associates.
This report underlines that real estate agents consider Internet as the best cost-effectiveness ratio media and the second media which get more useful contacts. Internet has reinforced the second place about getting buyers, according to the report. The first place keeps being the old sign of “for sale”.
The Internet will stop the real estate advertisements in print media in the United States
Real estate advertising no longer is the business for the print media. In the United States online media is will beat the newspaper in 2009, according to Borrel Associates, a company specialized in communication media strategies, which has already been working several years in the field of giving advertising recommendations for this sector.
A research shows that the real estate agents consider the Internet to be the media with the best cost-effective ratio and the second one in terms of proportional useful contacts, only behind the direct contact.
In terms of finding buyers, the Internet has reinforced its second place, according to the study. First place still take the good old letters “for sale”.
In 1998, real estate companies in the United States have spent on average 655 euros for print announces for each house sold. In 2005 this number already has been reduced to 500 euros. The expenditures for online media increased from 13,5 euros in 1998 to 175 euros in 2005.
In Spain the market penetration through the Internet only reaches 32.6 % of the households, but the Spanish real estate sector is taking notice of it.
Ministry of Housing affirmed that young people think small flats are just a temporal solution.
Rafael Pacheco, general manager of Architecture and Politics of Housing Ministry affirmed that the most part of the young people which request a small flat did it as a temporal solution because the renting is cheaper than what they will find in the market nowadays, and at the same time they can save money to face up an expensive property in the future.
Although the investment in offices has grown, their value on the total volume of the third sector has decreased. This fact is due to the investors’ interest in shopping centres, parks and logistics property.
THE PROPERTIES PRICES CARRY ON THEIR SOFT LANDING
The experts of the real-estate and building sectors foresee that this year the properties prices deceleration will carry on, with increases which could be lower than two digits, which would confirm the soft landing hypothesis that the market is undergoing.
With the help of those pieces of information, Spanish who want to purchase a property still feel hope during one more year, although they may know that they cannot wait for a prices decrease, a wish which is still to light years and can only take place, at the moment, in their dreams.
In between this prices landing setting, banks has found their solution which is one of the main problems for Spanish people. They welcome their news customers who decide to confront a property purchase with their best costumes.
Thus, people who are more than 30 years old do not have reasons anymore to buy their own property.
The fact is that the financing entities like the Santander, BBVA, Caja Madrid, Caixa Cataluña and the BBK make it easier for purchasers by launching mortgages, specially designed for those who are between 40 and 50 years old.
Overvaluation of houses prices not only in Spain.
According to a report of the OCDE, Spain is not the unique country which has an overvaluation of the houses, because countries as United Kingdom and Ireland are passing through this too. This data was revealed in the last report of World real estate boom which this organization carried out. Furthermore, they think that is unusual the situation that Spain is living because it lasts long time
Town councils are requesting social-demographic and economical reports to promoters and real estate groups which are going to develop the municipality. The objective is to carry out the urban law. This analysis of the social-economical impact of a real estate project combine a real estate, financial and fiscal analysis.
Aifos Spanish Property Developers on the Costa del Sol, a real estate company of Spain, has bought one of the most luxurious hotels on the Costa del Sol: the Byblos Hotel. Next September, the Developers will start refurbishing the hotel to improve its facilities services.