ARCHIVED - Price of new housing in Murcia region increases by 6.8 per cent during the last year

Second-hand property has increased by 4.4 per cent

The latest IPV (Home Price Index) data published by the National Institute of Statistics this week and relating to the second quarter of 2021, shows that the price of both new and second-hand housing in increasing steadily across Spain.

This is only to be expected due to the subdued demand during the covid pandemic; the data for this second quarter is the highest quarterly increase in the last two years and reflects the increased activity in the property sector since the end of movement restrictions.

Across the country, ‘brand new’ housing has risen by 6 per cent and second-hand housing by 2.9 per cent, giving an average increase of 3.3 per cent.

In the Murcia region the price of newbuilds has increased by 6.8 per cent in the last year and second-hand homes by 4 per cent, giving an across-the-board increase of 4.4 per cent.

This is principally due to supply and demand, there being fewer new properties available at the moment, particularly in the residential cities, due to the slowdown in construction during the pandemic.

There is also a marked change in the type of properties being sought, with detached or semi-detached properties with gardens in out-of-town settings becoming more sought after following the pandemic. As this type of property is not as widely available as the inner-city flats being vacated, demand is pushing up prices.

The annual rate of the IPV in the second quarter has increased in all 17 of the autonomous regions of Spain. The largest average increases were registered in the Canary Islands (6.4%), the Balearic Islands (5.7%), Cantabria (5.3%) and Murcia (4.4%). The regions with the lowest increase in their annual rate are La Rioja (2.3%), Castilla-La Mancha (2.4%) and Aragón (2.5%).