Ich weiß nicht, wie dies nicht mehr Aufmerksamkeit erregt, aber UKIO, das das Unternehmen mit dem luxuriösen Mietverleih, das die Immobilienkrise hier in Spanien noch schlimmer macht, insbesondere in Städten wie Barcelona und Madrid.
Sie nehmen normale Wohnungen-echte Häuser, in denen die Menschen früher lebten-ein paar neutrale Sofas und einen WLAN-Router, und plötzlich berechnen sie für eine Ein-Schlafzimmer 2,500 € pro Monat. Und nein, nicht in erstklassigen Strandzonen, in normalen Wohnvierteln.
Dies ist kein neues Startup, das versucht, „innovieren“ zu sein. Es ist nur Gentrifizierung bei Steroiden. Sie saugen Mietbestände aus, preisen Einheimische aus und verkaufen diese gefälschte „Live Like a Local“ -Bullshit an Remote -Arbeiter und technische Brüder. In der Zwischenzeit können tatsächliche Einheimische nicht einmal einen Ort finden, an dem das Hälfte ihres Gehalts nicht kostet.
Es geht nicht nur um Geld, es ist auch die Stimmung. Ganze Gebäude fühlen sich jetzt wie Airbnbs an: keine Nachbarn, keine Gemeinschaft, nur Fremde, die alle paar Wochen ihre Koffer hinein- und herausrollen. Die Geschäfte ändern sich, die Bäckereien schließen und plötzlich fühlt sich Ihre Stadt wie eine Kulisse für die Instagram -Rolle eines anderen an.
Und Ukio weiß genau, was sie tun. Sie werden von VCs finanziert, sie stecken sich den Investoren als „skalierbare Wohnungslösung“ an und spielen das System legal, während wir diejenigen sind, die mit dem Fallout zu tun haben.
Wenn Sie dies lesen und daran denken, in einem von diesen zu bleiben? Ich weiß nur, dass es nicht „im Ausland leben“ ist, es ist an einer ruhigen Form der Verschiebung teilzunehmen. Sie sehen es vielleicht nicht, aber die Leute werden aus ihren Häusern herausgedrängt, damit jemand einen „stilvollen Loft“ mit gefälschten Pflanzen und einem Preis von 5.000 €/Monat mieten kann.
Wohnraum ist kein Produkt für Touristen. Es ist kein Geschäftsmodell. Es ist ein verdammtes Recht.
Wie auch immer, ich bin es leid, dies in Zeitlupe zu sehen, während diese Unternehmen immer wieder unkontrolliert werden. Wenn Sie sich mit Ukio oder ähnlichen Unternehmen befasst haben oder aus Ihrer Wohnung herausgedrängt wurden, weil ein Start -up in die Post eingebrochen ist. Nennen wir diese Scheiße wenigstens aus. Y perdona para no expressar esto en castellano me viene más fácil en Inglés. Perdoname.
Nicht mit anderen Unternehmen gemischt werden, diese Jungs: https://maps.app.goo.gl/pdutjm9gqcbeprnk8
Ukio is quietly fucking over housing in Spain and no one’s talking about it
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I’ve lived in the Usera barrio of Madrid since 2017. Luckily I have a controlled rent but man, the number of touristic flats and stupid McPisos that have popped up all over, the gentrification, the obras of new buildings to cater to people with the money to buy them… We are fucked.
Gracias por la información. The future looks bleak as fuck.
Commenting for more visibility. Ukio is the worst! And many of their apartments are not licensed. They are merely subletting. I’m sure they have friends in various city councils because what they are doing would be regulated out of existence if they didn’t. AirBnB gets all the attention, meanwhile Ukio is able to list their rentals on Idealista etc. It’s crazy. Something extremely corrupt is going on with them.
As long as it is long term rentals, it’s not really something to be angry about.
You can’t have the option to go easily abroad, which so many Spanish people very gladly use, without the „abroad“ being also able to easily come to you.
The thing is: If you have a property and some entity comes to you with a price a little above the market price…would you sell or not?
Even hating this situation, I would.
Market works like that.
This is something we, civilians, can’t solve due to living in a “big community” called state or nation.
A house should belong to a family or person (to live there) but the more time passes, the more properties the entities acquire, and the more easier is for them to move them i.e. A company **doesn’t need** to sell a property. Keeping them is more profitable.
We need a party to fight for Spain, not Spain’s economy only
Estamos muy jodidos, olvidad España como país y aceptemos que es un patio para los guiris ricos, desde Benidorm hasta Gibraltar. Lo único que queda es que nos pillen al resto de España, yo por eso pienso huir de aquí
The worrying part is the alternative party blames illegal immigration for this type of stuff lmao.
If there’s a product on the market and there are people paying for it then this company isn’t the problem.
Shit like this and coliving garbage like Enso co-living and all this other shit are absolutely criminal. And shame on the people who use them too.
Soy italiano, tengo miedo que esso podría accader en Italia también. Es disgustos que por el interés de capitalismo se falta la conectividad umana.
A la mierda con ukio y airbnb!
Each day that passes I’m more in for a total regulation of the market starting with forbidding foreign companies and non nationals for purchasing any kind of housing (unless, you know, if they are the ones who are building it).
We’ve been going in the last 20 years from one housing crisis to the next, things are worse than ever and all we see is foreign capital coming to make things even worse.
Qué ganas de que llegue al poder un gobierno socialista y arregle este asunto
Let’s be frank. Our „progressive“ government hasn’t done much in housing in these 6 years. Just blaming the landlords and protecting squatters.
Worry not. If a conservative government comes next, I don’t expect significant changes.
We need to build in high demand areas.
We need to give preference to real people who are going to move in rather than companies, banks or shady foreign investment firms.
More regulations and limitation to holiday rentals.
Less regulations and limitations to rent to real people. Deregulate prices (they will go down eventually). Ability to kick squatters out quickly.
More houses available to buy or rent = more affordable prices.
Never heard of them. Thanks for the heads up
its the politicians. don’t blame anyone but the politicians. if you blame anyone else, you lose the plot. the politicians create the environment where irresponsible people, businesses and corporations take advantage of the „rules“. its kind of like when you shop for sales. you do it because you want to take advantage of the situation. is no different when politicians take money from crooks in order to make laws that benefit them. its the politicians.
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If there is no demand for it they won’t make it, don’t worry. If people actually want to rent from them, they are actually providing what the market wants. You don’t have to want it or like it, but nothing wrong with offering what people want.
People are being displaced by governments refusing to allow more housing to be built and investment to be carried out in highly productive companies.
Don’t blame the people who are playing the game, blame the people making the rules.
It’s really sad but that company is addressing a major problem with the Spanish real estate market. There are so many unscrupulous landlords that break all the rules to protect renters and neighbors that do shady things like try to circumvent contracts, demand insane amounts of cash up front, etc. I have heard so many stories of people getting burned when trying to rent legitimately so I understand why paying a more or less reputable company can seem so appealing, especially if you are moving to Spain with an ample budget.
man, I stayed in carabancel , 2 nights last year, first time relocating in Spain. the whole building was owned by a chinese family, they had two store at the base , one restaurant and one alimentation. all 40 apartments were owned by them.
god knows how many they still bought. on the lther side in Chamartin, I know a Don, who has over 10 aparts and 2 houses in hortaleza. I rent one of his apart. one of his concern is that he couldn’t rent the house because market rent price is too high , nobody wants it.
So the TRUE reality is that yea, there are a lot of companies that want to take over the monopol, BUT yet in Spain, there are still a lot of greedy spaniards that on one hand they go in the street saying stop turism destroying our country, and on the other hand they laugh because their business is working well on passive income
I had a look at what properties they have in Madrid and everything is in prime areas, not in „normal residential neighborhoods“
This is an example of what they are offering
[https://ukio.com/furnished-apartments/madrid/centro/malasana-universidad/terzigno-1478?checkIn=2025-08-11&checkOut=2025-09-11](https://ukio.com/furnished-apartments/madrid/centro/malasana-universidad/terzigno-1478?checkIn=2025-08-11&checkOut=2025-09-11)
This is not a building where locals we have been living in the last 50 years unless you were part of the very upper class.
Whew, one more to avoid. Thanks for letting us know!
Moved out of Barcelona at the start of this year, after three years in an apartment where the landlords never raised the rent. It was a quiet and residential part of L’Eixample. I was curious to know a ballpark figure of how much rent the landlords might charge the new tenants, so I drew a very tight circle around the area on Idealista to see what the going rate was for two-bedroom pisos. Prices were averaging about X2.5 what we had been paying (990 a month), and a shocking amount of the available listings were from this company, some of them reaching upwards of 3000 a month.