Haushaltsbestand gegenüber dem Vorjahr, Spanien, 1900 bis 2025 [OC]

**Data sources:**

* Housing stock, from 1900 to 1970, see the approach to estimate the historical data [here](https://spainhousing.eu/posts/stocknotes.html)
* Housing stock, from 1971 to 2000, according to Atlas Digital de las Áreas Urbanas (*Parque de Viviendas > Viviendas según tipo > Viviendas familiares > Select from available years 1970, 1981, 1991, 2001, 2011 > Tabla and Sintesis*): [Link](https://atlasau.mitma.gob.es/#c=indicator&view=map1). Based on the data from 1970, 1981 and 1991, the remaining years gaps have been estimated, in a similar way as done by Banco de España (*Observatorio de Vivienda y Suelo > Boletines periódicos > Boletín Anual 2021 > Tabla 8.1*): [Link](https://www.mivau.gob.es/urbanismo-y-suelo/suelo/observatorio-de-vivienda-y-suelo)
* Housing stock, from 2001 onwards (*Total de viviendas por comunidades autónomas y provincias*): [Link](https://apps.fomento.gob.es/BoletinOnline2/?nivel=2&orden=33000000)
* Population according to INE: [Population consolidated](https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736177095&menu=resultados&idp=1254735572981#_tabs-1254736195796)

The chart denotes that Spain population is growing significantly faster that the housing stock, the current housing deficit is the biggest of the last 125 years, which could explain the harsh situation for housing accessibility and rising prices in the country.

With the data from this figure, there should be a huge surplus of available housing from the period between 1958 and 2018. The deficit from the last 4 years is not nearly enough to account for all that was previously built.

* lots of vacation homes and investment homes – included lots bought by russians from 2010 to 2020 because Spain offered a residence permit
* lots of abandoned property (incl. built by investors) – famous example is Valdeluz, built around 2008 for 30.000 residents but even now still at about 4.000 [https://www.abandonedspaces.com/uncategorized/spain.html](https://www.abandonedspaces.com/uncategorized/spain.html)
* not sure how old homes that are sold/abandoned treated in the statistics – lots of that happened in past 50 years with whole villages being abandoned
* lower fertility and less children in population means smaller families, higher proportion of 1-2 person households vs. old fashioned 3-generation households

Even then, excessive real estate is obvious and real estate prices in smaller towns are still nowhere near 2008 levels.