He access to housing It continues to be one of the main economic and social problems in Spain. Price escalation in the real estate market, combined with the Housing and lack of affordable offerhas reduced the purchase capacity. In this scenario, young people and families with middle income are displaced in the market, while there are investors seeking rental in rent to maximize their benefits, especially in large cities.
Only a small group of buyers has the economic capacity to acquire a home in Spain. This has been assured of Edgar Sánchez, real estate expert, in the program ‘Lasexta Xplica’, where he has highlighted the three profiles for which the market is dominated: “The people who can buy right now are because they change their housing, people who leave money from parents or investors,” he says.
An increasingly accessible business
With respect to this last profile, the expert warns that there is an upward trend among the small owners who seek to maximize their benefits through the rental of rooms through the division of the floors. “A three bedroom apartment took the living room, I do four bedrooms and rent in rooms,” Edgar exemplifies.
“We are talking about a 60 or 70 -meter floor, maybe the two large rooms are 500 euros and the small 250 or 300 euros,” he adds. Thus, he explains that “you are putting a much larger profitability than there is a traditional rental.”
This model, according to the expert, not only increases profitability by up to 43%, but diversifies the risk of default, since “if someone stops paying, stops paying one, they do not stop paying you all,” he says referring to the tenants who would inhabit the full floor.
This practice, increasingly widespread in cities such as Madrid, Barcelona or Valencia, helps to tension the rental market and reduces the offer of family homes, aggravating the imbalance between the purchasing capacity of the population and market prices.