Owners of multiple properties have 36% of flats with regular rents
The Barcelona Metropolitan Housing Observatory (O-HB) has published the report from the third edition of the laboratory “Structure and concentration of home ownership in Barcelona 2021”, which offers a snapshot of the 754,326 main homes in the city. Of this stock, 38.5% (290,416 homes) are regular rents, with over a third of these (36%) in the hands of owners of multiple properties (legal or natural persons with more than ten homes).
The detailed O-HB study of the stock of properties with regular rents, based on data from the Catalan Land Institute (Incasòl), also highlights that the stock of rental homes has a higher concentration of ownership (owners with more than three homes have 51.4% of the total number of rental homes) than the general stock, where this type of owners have 30.6% of the total stock. A similar story can be found through an analysis of homes in the hands of legal persons, which have much more weight in the rental stock (35.5%) than in the city’s housing stock (15.1%).
In terms of types of owners, legal persons predominate as 77.3% of homes belong to owners of multiple properties. The 12,893 publicly owned homes represent 1.7% of the overall stock of homes, equating to 4.4% of the main stock of regular rental homes in the city. These publicly owned homes account for larger volumes in neighbourhoods in the outskirts and much of the district of Ciutat Vella, reaching over 20% of all housing in the neighbourhoods of Can Peguera, Torre Baró, Vallbona and Baró de Viver.
