Renting a room in Barcelona already reaches 1,000 euros: “My entire floor costs less than a room in the one above” | News from Catalonia | EUROtoday

The successive rental laws in Catalonia have positioned the true property market and the leases that stay outdoors the value stops have gone as a mom. In Barcelona, ​​to dodge the laws, first the house owners who weren’t prepared to undergo the ring took refuge within the seasonal leases, often for one yr. Outside the usual, you may ask for the value that somebody is prepared to pay. And in parallel, the provide and costs of room rental have been triggered. Under the attractiveness of Anglicism cottongiant funding corporations purchase complete buildings, don’t renew the tenants and reinforce the flooring to hire them for costs that already attain one thousand euros. The clientele that may be allowed is often worldwide and addresses an viewers below 40.

The newest idealist examine, from the top of April, locations at 600 euros per 30 days the typical of the rooms in Barcelona, ​​the most costly in Spain, a proposal that elevated 22% in 2024. But this Thursday, on the identical portal, these of greater than 900 euros per 30 days had been already 9.7% of the whole provide of this components, for which 2,500 euros are requested. Also in April, the typical on the Fotocasa portal was 640 euros per 30 days per room.

Txema Escorsa lives in a constructing on Sant Agustí avenue within the Gràcia neighborhood the place the property reforms the flooring when they’re emptied and affords 4 colivings. “My entire floor costs 811 euros, less than what a room costs on the top, 980,” he says. “980 euros is 80% of the minimum wage (1,184 euros), for a room that does not reach 11 square meters!”, Exclaims. “And they are rooms that have nothing, if you had their own sink or dressing room … there is hardly any space to pass between the bed and the door, and you will share with people that you have not chosen. You have no ability to decide with the rest, as in a shared floor of the normal ones,” he laments. The hire contains the room, wifi, bathing or loos, kitchen, lounge, all furnished, and weekly cleansing; It doesn’t embody provide bills or home clothes and 200 euros of administration will be added. In one of these housing, typically even tenants have a card to open their room. “They function as pensions,” provides the neighbor.

The room quoted by Escorsa is obtainable from September, for somebody between 18 and 39 years and “student or worker accreditation is required,” the announcement says. Advertising affords, if reserved earlier than the top of August, “a month-to-month low cost and a category of paddle surf Free “. The advertising company is Enter Coliving, which has” 376 rooms for hire “on offer in idealist, in several Spanish cities, where it is aimed at young customers who invites you to join the“ community ”, with activities or events. The building is owned by NAD, New Amsterdam Developers (NAD), which bought the Gràcia building to the old family owner in 2023, explains the tenant.

Since then, 11 floors from the farm, four have been renovated and are colivingstwo are empty and the other five have tenants: an old rent and the rest are or out of the contract or with tacit extensions, although with legal discussions between the parties. Escorsa, for example, defends that his contract was extended in April for a year, while the company, he explains, understands that the extension was only for a month and has sued him, as he has been aware this week. “They suppose that demanding we will probably be afraid and we are going to go away, however it’s the reverse, they provide us extra energy to battle and extra now, that the City Council has denounced them for doing unlawful works,” he says. Escorsa recounts that he met with property representatives, with whom he speaks through a real estate, and replied that his business “is authorized.” The tenant admits that if he had to march, with his salary, he could not face a rent in the city, “the place it’s important to compete with worldwide public with a a lot larger buying energy.”

The Consistory has fined the property twice for illegal works in the building of Gràcia (the first paid the fine, but did not legalize them) and as long as they do not, they are forbidden to rent the homes, as the deputy mayor of Urbanism, Laia Bonet, asked by the commons, who indicate that the case is “the tip of the iceberg” this week. The councilor replied that the municipal government “shares concern concerning the proliferation of circumstances akin to Gràcia.” “It is insupportable {that a} promoter do unlawful works on a cataloged farm, and extra if the works serve to hire rooms at exorbitant costs,” he said. Asked the Enter Coliving company for the operation of its business, the profile of customers and the fines, this newspaper has not obtained an answer.

Other companies that offer rooms that reach one thousand euros are Spacest or Enso. A Spacest platform worker, who prefers to keep anonymity, says that the profile preferred by the company are “college students of a most of 35 years” and justifies high prices stating that “house owners select costs” and that they are especially high “once they admit {couples}.” On the other hand, Sources of Enso, a company that offers “in Prime” Rooms in Barcelona, ​​which do not affect, assure “sensitive residential areas”, place their profile in “highly qualified young people with 27 years on average”, “that reside on average for eight months and seek a flexible housing solution”. Its business model is not based on entire buildings, but on loose homes, they need.

The pending regulation in Catalonia is a decree that will be processed as a law as a result of the commitment of the president Salvador Illa with Common, ERC and the CUP that seasonal rentals and rooms have a price stop. In the case of the rooms, the sum of the cost of those of a floor may not exceed what marks the official index for the entire housing.

Later unions have been warning of the seasonal rentals for years and then the rooms. Anna Olesti, is one of the spokesmen of the Socialist Housing Union, and also a neighbor of another building bought by a NAD subsidiary and whose neighbors are afraid to become cottonlike other properties of the same company. It is the house Fajol or Casa Papallona, ​​in the Eixample. His neighbors received last August a law firm warning that the farm had been bought by Nad Llançà (on the street where the farm is) and subsequently new letters in which they are informed that they will not be renewed the contracts when they are completed. Of 14 floors, one is empty, two in reform works and the remaining 11 have tenants (the most veteran neighbor has been living there for 60 years), some out of the contract. “It is a enterprise mannequin that the properties use to extract extra profit: you fraction a flooring and duplications or triples, whereas the administrations put purple carpet on the expense of the neighbors.”

On the regulation that the Parliament must process, Olesti admits, as a neighbor: “We have blind confidence as a result of in moments of such rigidity you seize what it’s.” Then, as a spokesman for the Socialist Union, he clarifies: “But if we glance again, the earlier Catalan legal guidelines in housing or have been mendacity by the Constitutional Court or haven’t been efficient as a result of lack of inspections or as a result of they weren’t sufficiently locked and had holes.”

Beyond the cotton that belong or handle giant corporations or funds, additionally conventional native actual property administration handle room rental flooring. In the higher zone, sources from the corporate Peraire defend the rental of rooms for profiles to those that don’t match the rental of the season, the vacationer, “and they are excluded from the colivingswho usually ask for children under 40. ”Explain circumstances that handle as a high-end residence and 5 rooms, whose tenants arrive within the mouth-orja, and cite profiles as 50-year-old judges who got here to the judicial college, an Italian official of 61 who had just a few months of labor within the consulate of their nation or architects or engineers who briefly carry tasks in Barcelona. The identical sources point out that the high-end rooms point out that the high-end rooms (Furnished and with all of the bills included, additionally cleansing) forestall every tenant from occupying a complete residence that will barely use, as a result of virtually solely makes use of it to sleep.