22 Oct, 2017 @ 15:06
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Applications for new property builds in Spain soar by 25%

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APPLICATIONS for licences for new builds in Spain soared by 24.4% in the first seven months of this year.

According to figures from the Development Ministry, some 49,238 applications were made.
The majority – 37,039 – were for apartment blocks, up by 26% compared to 2016, making up 75.2% of the total applications.

Building applications for detached homes stood at 12,174, an increase of 19.5%.


On its current trajectory, 84,500 applications could filed by the end of 2017. This would be the highest for seven years, since 2010 when 91,600 were made.


Meanwhile, applications for refurbishments and extensions increased by 5.8% between January and July to a total of 17,855. Licences for extensions saw the biggest increase – up by 18.8% to 1,373.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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