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In the Barcelona of the 21st century, the houses are no longer taken in which one is born, raised, pushes roots and even ends up founding a new family that takes over. Send the change. The horizons for a handful of years seen. That is one of the main conclusions of the report of the Economic and Social Consell of Barcelona (CESB) On the city’s residential park, its area and the Metropolitan Region. It reveals that more or less half Of the neighbors of the Catalan capital they have changed residence or will do so throughout the decade between 2018 and 2027.
The big question is: why?
Houses for life. The concept of “house for a lifetime” is falling in Barcelona. He last report On its residential park presented yesterday by CESB, it shows that the removals are the order of the day in the Catalan capital and many of its neighbors have changed their house or will do so over the next few years. “An important part of the population expects that it will change housing in the five years after the survey,” Clarify the report of CESB, which is based on a survey made in 2022.
Although the survey was conducted several years ago their conclusions are interesting because they show an increase in moving plans among the Barcelona population. Specifically, it has detected an increase of 12.6% compared to the 2017 data. “The Condal city especially records a high change in housing,” They slide Its authors.
And what does the report reveal? Thanks to the combination of several sources, the study of CESB provides an “radiography” of residential mobility in Barcelona, the rest of the area and the whole of the Metropolitan Region, a wide territory by which they are distributed 2.2 million homes. The most interesting data is those of the Ciudad Ciudad, where 35.5%of the population provided for changing housing during the five years of the survey, conducted in 2022. In the rest of the Barcelona area they had move plans around a third (29%) of the neighbors and in the region 25.8%.
That is the short -term forecast, between 2022 and 2027. The other great question that the report answers is … How many people have already changed residence in recent years? According to its calculations, during the five years prior to the survey, 30.4% of the population of the city. In the rest of the conurbation it was made by 23.1% and in the external crown that completes the Metropolitan Region 25.1%.
And what is the general photo? “If changes are combined in the last five years and the forecast of the next five shows how about half of the population of each of the areas has changed housing or plans to do so during the 2018-2027 period,” collect the report Sector published yesterday by CESB. “The city is especially suffering from a high change, being the only area where more than half of the population (50.7%) is expected to change housing throughout that period.”
Subscribers to the removals. That the specific case of Barcelona has caught the attention of the technicians is not explained so much for the number of people who have already moved or plan to do so as for those who fit both profiles. That is, Barcelona who have changed home in recent years and plan to do it again. In the Catalan capital They represent 14.9% of the population, compared to 9.1% of the conurbation and 8.5% of the rest of the region.
“In conclusion, a high rate of housing is observed throughout the Metropolitan Region, with especially high figures in Barcelona, where more than half of the people are expected during the period analyzed,” The report concludes. “Especially serious is the situation of that 15% of Barcelona who plan to change housing twice in just ten years, with the difficulties that this can behave when it comes to vital stability or roots in the territory.”
Why do they move? CESB also answers that doubt. And its conclusion is striking: the main reason that leads the population to change home is “to improve housing or the environment.” That is the reason behind 34.7% of the removals counted in Barcelona and about 40% of those registered in the metropolitan area and the region. The second reason (28.2% in the Catalan capital) is the desire to form a home or other family reasons. Interestingly, the report itself indicates that in a significant part (and also growing) of homes reside only one or two people.
And prices? The economic factor is also behind not a few moves, although it motivates less than the search for better locations or family motifs. The study indicates that almost a quarter (24.5%) of the changes registered in the city in recent years respond to “economic reasons” or “forced” reasons and alien to the will of those who reside in housing, such as a demolition, an expulsion or the end of a contract. That reason is far superior to that of moving for labor reasons, which explain between 5 and 10% of residences changes.
“Regarding the forecasts for the next five years, about half of the people who plan to change floor plan to do so to improve their own home or environment,” They abound. The economic or force majeure reasons are maintained in third place in the ranking, behind the relatives, although they lose strength: it is estimated that they will go from 24.5% to 14.7%.
What is the context? CESB has presented the study in a complex context, marked by The increase of housing (both in the lease market and in the sale) and The pressure exercised by holiday rental, which has even taken Barcelona to Declare war to tourist floors. Such is the situation that housing has become The main concern of its neighbors, tied with insecurity.
The CESB report also provides other interesting data that help complete the radiography of the Barcelona Residential Park and its area, such as 15.9% of the apartment offer has less than 45 square meters, the Weight stunning of protected housing or that (with the 2021 census in their hand) almost a third (31%) of the households of the city are occupied by a single member, which for the municipal housing commissioner, Joan Ramon Riera, puts on the table the debate on his “inefficient use”.
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