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Hurting homeowners

March 12, 2010  •  Andalucia, Lead2, National News  •  2 Comments

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HOME repossessions in Andalucia were the highest in Spain last year.

The region topped the table with around 16,000 people losing their homes through mortgage default.

Around Spain, some 90.000 households couldn’t afford to pay their mortgage.

This year however, the number is expected to rocket to a massive 181,000 repossessions, over ten times what it was in 2006.

Catalonia and Valencia were the next highest areas for repossessions with both seeing more than 10,000 homes lost.

With unemployment around 20 per cent the Spanish recession is not expected to be over until next year.

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Ben

March 12th, 2010 12:14 pm

Perhaps you can tell us where these repossessions will be sold?

jim

May 4th, 2010 9:57 pm

Ben@ The Banks reposses and auction the house off.However its Bank and Government policy to keep the house prices inflated. the more you lend the more you make!its not in the capatilists interest to have house prices back to real people and real money earned and spent. they alllive in LALA land .the banks fix the reerve very high so thwy dont sell.they then try to rent it out at inflated rental prices .and create homeless nesss and poverty !!! fight back dont rent squat!





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The Olive Press is the English language newspaper for Andalucia. Local news from Costa del Sol and inland Andalucia plus national news from around Spain. A campaigning, community newspaper, the Olive Press represents the huge and growing expatriate community in southern Spain - 29,000 copies printed monthly with an estimated readership, including the website, of more than 170,000 people a month.