Spain's housing crisis sees soaring prices and a new nonfiction book

Journalist Llucia Ramis released the nonfiction work *Un metro cuadrado*, which mixes personal tenancy experience with urban reporting to examine Spain’s worsening housing affordability, rising rents, gentrification and the impact on everyday life. The book, awarded the IV Non‑Fiction prize by Libros del Asteroide, highlights how the lack of affordable homes has become a nationwide concern.

A Fotocasa market analysis of the Valencian coast identified four municipalities—Almassora, Nules, Burriana and Tavernes de la Valldigna—where apartments can be bought for just over €100,000, making them the cheapest beach‑side options in Spain. The report also noted a 305 % price increase in El Verger over five years and placed the Valencian community among the areas with the steepest price growth nationwide. María Matos, Fotocasa’s director of studies, said the coastal market “has become one of the most pressure‑filled price markets in the country.” The same data showed that 47 % of studied coastal cities now exceed the national average price of €3,133 per m², underscoring the widening affordability gap.