last September were requested in Spain permits for the construction of 7.255 new homes, according to statistics disseminated on Thursday by the Ministry of public works that collect the visas of work registered in the colleges of technical architects of Spain. The figure represents an increase of 8.1% compared with the same month of 2017, and cools the expectations opened up by the statistics of last July, a month that marked the best result in ten years.
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applications to build homes and marked the best result since 2008
The data of September, nor is it even the best for that month since the crisis. Between 2009 and 2011, they requested permits to build more housing during the ninth month of the year, a period traditionally positive because it picks up the reactivation of the sector after the valley in August. And, of course, is far from the situation prior to the crisis. In fact, September 2006 Casinovale holds the record of the historical series which begins in 1991: in that month are asked for permits to build more than 126.753 housing.
To understand what a crazy notion of that figure, it is sufficient to note that the visas of those 30 days, far exceed all that have been ordered during the 12 months of the year in the last exercises. In 2018, between January and September, permits for new construction totaling in Spain 75.299 housing. Unless a collapse in the last quarter, that figure allows you to forward that, for the sixth year in a row to end the year with more visas than the previous year (in 2017 were granted in total 80.786).
The statistics of Promotion also allows you to observe the progression of the reform or rehabilitation of housing, through the visas that are required for the concepts of enlargement, renovation or restoration of immovable property. In that case, added during September 2.288 permissions. The figure is much more stable (in fact, in all the months of this year, except August, has been between 2,000 and 3,000 visas) and reflects a variation of the low very minimum respect to 2017, when asked to 2,300 permits for those same concepts.
