MADRID / SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, 16 Aug. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The the supply of shared apartments decreased by 45% in the last year, in line with the reduction suffered by real estate assets for rent, According to a report published by Idealist. In the specific case of A Coruña, according to the study, the the decrease was 25%, while the document does not have data for Pontevedra, Ourense and Lugo.
Therefore, the fall was not the same in all Spanish cities, but in some capitals fell by more than 70%, The most pronounced decreases occurred in Palma de Mallorca (with a 78% drop in supply), Barcelona (-73%) and San Sebastián (-71%). Above 50% are Malaga (-62%), Madrid (-59%), Guadalajara (-55%), Alicante (-54%), Tarragona (-53%) and Girona (-53%).
Meanwhile also inside eight provincial capitals have more rooms available than a year ago, with the biggest increase in supply in Albacete, where people looking to rent a room have 50% more offer to choose from. Followed by Córdoba (with a 20% increase), Castellón de la Plana (13%), Cáceres (13%), Almería (11%), Santa Cruz de Tenerife (8%), Palencia (7%) and Segovia (3 %).
Regarding the location of the offer, over 50% of the available rooms are divided between Madrid (31% of the total), Barcelona (10%) and Valencia (9%). Then there are the markets of Seville (6%), Granada (4%), Zaragoza (4%), Salamanca and Córdoba (3% in each of them). The sum of the 30 provincial capitals in which there are fewer rooms would represent only 21% of the total park available.
price increase
As a result of the decline in supply, the real estate market has suffered the rent increases in the last year, with increases of up to 20% in Tarragona, Alicante or Malaga. In addition, the price has risen over 10% in Valencia (18%), Santander (16%), Alicante (15%), Guadalajara, Barcelona and Madrid (14% in the 3 cases), San Sebastián (13%), Santa Cruz de Tenerife (13%), Lleida (11%), Huelva (11%) and Toledo (10).
Conversely, the price of rooms in shared apartments this year fell in Ciudad Real, Ávila and Palencia, with decreases of 3%, 4% and 1% respectively. A) Yes, the city with the most expensive rents, according to Idealista, is currently San Sebastián, where they are already reached 460 euros per month on average. Barcelona, Madrid and Palma follow – where the average price is already above 400 euros – e Bilbao, Málaga and Pamplonawhere the average price is over 300 euros.
On the other hand, Ciudad Real is the cheapest city, with an average price of 175 euros, followed by Palencia (200 euros), Jaén (200 euros), Cáceres (200 euros) and Ávila (210 euros).
The average age of people looking for an apartment increases
People sharing an apartment in Spain have a similar profile to last year, although the the average age rose by one year to 34. Furthermore, they are defined by other traits such as qwant to live in the center of big cities, not smoke or allow smoking in the house and not have a pet.
Depending on the geographical area the the average age rises to 42, like in Vitoria, Oviedo and Ávila, or up to 40, like in Palma, Huelva and Palencia. On the contrary, in Madrid it falls on average to 32 years, in Zaragoza and Granada to 30 and in Salamanca, Santander or Valencia they are on average between 29 and 26 years.
