The territorial leaders of People’s Party they question the data provided by the government on the rental price after months of application of the housing law in Catalonia. The President of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, we don’t believe he fell after hitting prices, as he said on Friday: “So far all the data was negative and a month after the government started talking about housing the data has already improved,” he said – he quipped.
A question joined by the Madrid president, Isabel Diaz Ayuso: “I doubt that it would be as positive to intervene”, slipped the ‘popular’ leader, while the leader of her party, Alberto Nuñez Feijóocriticized in the La Toja Forum the “interventionist recipes which”, he assures, “far from lowering prices, have caused them to skyrocket”.
The “popular” people are thus questioning the Catalan Minister of Housing, Silvia Paneque, who confirmed on Thursday “a downward trend in rental income” in Catalonia, the only community for the moment which applies stressed areaswho starts to see results with price drops of 3 to 5% average in some regions.
A downward trend since June which confirms Idealisticbut not in the province of Barcelona, but in the rest of Catalonia, notably in Girona and Lérida: according to data from the real estate portal, the price decreased by 5.9 and 6.9% in these two provinces, respectively, while in Tarragona it decreased by 1.1%.
In Barcelonanevertheless, increased by 2.1%. According to the spokesperson for Pisos.com, there is “a sharp increase in prices and increasing difficulty in accessing housing for young people”.
Idealista data thus indicates an increase in prices both in Catalonia like in the city of Barcelonawhich is, however, lower than that of the Community of Madrid and the capital, where stressed areas do not apply: according to the portal, in Catalonia prices have increased by 0.4% and 1.5% in Barcelona, while in the The Community of Madrid and the city of Madrid increased by 3.4 and 3.1%respectively.
Euskadi will apply stressed areas
Basque CountryHowever, this will apply to affected areas in provincial capitals and three other municipalities. The Basque Government has confidence in its effectiveness and, when asked whether the price could increase even more due to a reduction in supply, the Minister of Housing, Denis Itxaso, said: “It will not be possible to increase the price because the law will prevent it.“.
Bilbao real estate agencies, however, believe that the problem lies in the lack of supply. Iker Elordui, from Grupo Inmobiliario Quorum, assures that “there is a real problem regarding the rental offer”. According to him, “the solution does not lie in this regulation, but in increasing supply.” One problem, the shortage of housing, which the government also wants to remedy with more than 24,400 new housing units by June 2026.
