Access to housing is one of the problems that most concern the Spaniards currently, with the low offer and the prices without stopping up, it is increasingly complicated to buy a property. This context has referred to the economist and university professor Gonzalo Bernardos in one of his last interviews, launching a clear warning: “It will be a festival”, ironizing about the difficulty of finding a house that will find thousands of Spaniards.
The contradiction is clear: as long as it is increasingly difficult to access a home, fever to invest in properties does not stop growing. The market offers fewer options and, even so, buyers are willing to pay anything in order to ensure a floor. Negotiating prices has almost gone down and discounts are little more than a mirage.
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According to the latest data from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda, the price of free housing stood at 1,921 euros the square meter at the end of 2024. That is 6% more than the previous year, confirming that the market not only does not stop, but continues to throw up.
The clash between demand and supply
There is much more demand than supply. Less new promotions are built, while the interest in buying (either to live or invest) does not stop climbing. The result is that the floors that come to the market fly in a few days. For Bernardos, the challenge is no longer selling, but finding a product: “In 2025 you will not sell homes, they will buy them.”
To this pressure on prices is added a factor that seemed to go against, but in the end it is not doing so much: financing. Despite the rise in types in recent years, the mortgage credit remains accessible to many. That keeps the market movement alive, with both national and foreign investors seeing brick and safe refuge in uncertain times.
Anyone will be able to sell a house
But not everything is a matter of prices. The real estate sector is also becoming the way of teaching and selling. Digitization has changed everything: online portals, virtual visits, automatic tools … increasingly miss the usual intermediaries. Bernardos summarizes it with humor: “In 2025 a puppy, a kitten and a parakeet are able to teach a home and sell it.”
What is clear is that 2025 paints as an intense year for the housing market in Spain. Price increases, more demand than supply and new forms of commercialization draw a scenario full of opportunities … but not for everyone. And Bernardos warn: Entering this real estate festival can leave expensive.