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Ghost Towns Still Haunt Spain

Charlie Devereux   /  Fuente:  Bloomberg
25/11/2018


Residential properties lay abandoned in Bernuy de Porreros. Photographer: Angel Navarrete/Bloomberg.

“The real estate sector’s recovery in Spain is developing at two clearly different speeds,” said Fernando Rodriguez de Acuna, director of Madrid-based real-estate consultancy R.R. de Acuna & Asociados. “While one part of the country is consolidating the recovery of the sector and even expanding, another part of the country is stagnating and is showing few signs of returning to pre-crisis levels in the medium- and long-term.”

A decade after the financial crisis hit, Spain’s real estate recovery is a tale of two markets. Key cities and tourism hot spots are enjoying a fresh boom, fueled by interest rates that are still near historic lows, an economic recovery and a banking system that’s finally cleaning up its act. But travel a little beyond the bustling centers, to the outskirts of smaller villages, and ghost towns still litter the landscape...


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