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  Francisco González Aragón    Group moderator

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  Holiday home sales down almost 90pc since 2006

  New figures from the Department of Housing reveal the true extent of the slump in holiday-home sales to foreigners.
  
  During Spain’s runaway housing boom of the last decade, tens of thousands of new homes were built on the coast with foreign buyers in mind. Unfortunately, foreign buyers didn’t show up to the party in expected numbers, which partly explain why Spain has such a glut of new homes on the coast.
  
  But look how dramatically purchases of holiday-homes by foreigners have collapsed. Down 87pc in the first 9 months of the year compared to the same period in 2006, and -16pc Q3/Q2 At this rate foreigners buying holiday homes will do nothing to help absorb Spain’s glut of new homes. The figures are difficult to believe: Just 490 sales in 3 months over the summer. Are the figures wrong? If not, who will buy all those empty holiday-homes? Unemployed Spaniards?
  
  Source including table and graph: http://bit.ly/eZXPru
  
  • 19 Dec 2010, 2:29 pm
  Francisco González Aragón wrote: > New figures from the Department of Housing reveal the true extent of > the slump in holiday-home sales to foreigners. > > During Spain’s runaway housing boom of the last decade, tens of > thousands of new homes were built on the coast with foreign buyers in > mind. Unfortunately, foreign buyers didn’t show up to the party in > expected numbers, which partly explain why Spain has such a glut of > new homes on the coast. > > But look how dramatically purchases of holiday-homes by foreigners > have collapsed. Down 87pc in the first 9 months of the year compared > to the same period in 2006, and -16pc Q3/Q2 At this rate foreigners > buying holiday homes will do nothing to help absorb Spain’s glut of > new homes. The figures are difficult to believe: Just 490 sales in 3 > months over the summer. Are the figures wrong? If not, who will buy > all those empty holiday-homes? Unemployed Spaniards? > > Source including table and graph: http://bit.ly/eZXPru