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The main real estate associations in Spain have met at the II National Forum on Home Staging and Real Estate Marketing, where they urged the public sector and political class to take urgent measures to curb the housing crisis. FADEI, FAI, AMPSI and FIABCI all agreed that it is essential to reduce taxation, speed up urban‑planning procedures, strengthen legal certainty and reach agreements across government levels.
One of their core demands has been to cut taxes on both purchasing and building homes. Miguel Ángel Gómez Huecas (FADEI and AMADEI) stated that “tax burdens should be reduced” to facilitate access to housing. Along the same lines, Ana Luengo (AMPSI) described the tax burden as “bleeding” (literally “sangrante”), criticising that the €56 billion collected in 2024 from housing is not being used to increase supply.
José María Alfaro (FAI) complained that taxes can amount to up to 40 % of the price of a home, and called for coordination across all three tiers of government. “It cannot be that so many families are suffering due to political inaction,” he emphasised. Luengo, for her part, called an “urgent” State pact “vital” and accused the Government of “excessive intervention” that prevents the sector from working freely.
Another critical point was the slowness of urban‑planning processes. Felice Tufano (FIABCI Europe) warned that lengthy bureaucratic delays hamper bringing new land to market, despite “Spain having surplus land, but the process is very slow,” as Luengo also noted. Additionally, Alfaro insisted on strengthening legal certainty, demanding solutions for rent defaults that may take up to two years to resolve.
Regarding the current market state, the experts deny a traditional real‑estate bubble, but warn of a clear overheating of prices in areas such as Madrid, Málaga or the islands. Tufano cautioned of a “housing‑access bubble”, caused by insufficient production — between 40 % and 60 % of current demand — which threatens to leave young people and the middle class out of the market.