This analysis examines the recent evolution of the European residential market and explores differences between countries in a context where housing has become the main concern among Europeans. What we see is a cycle marked by successive shocks and an insufficient supply, which is now emerging as the main source of tension.
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The health crisis brought about by COVID-19 has forced large parts of society to quickly and unexpectedly adapt to remote working, a relatively minority practice in Spain prior to the outbreak of the pandemic. Does Spain simply lack the potential to telework or, on the contrary, does it has the potential but fails to exploit it?
The Spanish economy is maintaining a good tone as 2024 draws to a close. The labour market is performing well despite the slight slowdown in November; inflation is picking up, driven by the most volatile components; the current account surplus continues to grow, and home sales are soaring.
The incorporation of these two new dimensions into the indicator allows wage dynamics in Spain to be monitored at a more granular level, based on the aggregated and anonymised analysis of internal data and big data techniques.
The Spanish economy successfully navigated the trade and geopolitical tensions affecting the global environment in 2025, achieving growth of 2.8%. This figure clearly surpasses both our forecast at the start of year, which was 2.3%, and the euro area’s growth, which stood at 1.5%. This GDP growth was driven by the momentum of domestic demand, which offset the deterioration of external demand resulting from the surge in imports.
The Spanish economy rides out the storm clouds in the closing stages of the year
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How does shelter, or the price of rent, impact US inflation? What is the outlook for this component and how does it affect the Fed’s monetary policy?
According to the first estimate for Q1 2023, GDP growth gathered pace compared to the previous quarter, with a quarterly increase of 0.5% versus 0.4% in Q4 2022 (after being revised 2 percentage points upwards). In year-on-year terms, growth rose to 3.8%, versus 2.9% in the previous quarter.
The COVID-19 crisis has triggered a change in consumption habits in our society and has intensified the use of e-commerce. In this article, we analyse whether this intensification has been uniform across all age groups and constant throughout all phases of the pandemic.
We monitor the trends in private consumption and the impact of COVID-19 based on card purchases and cash withdrawals at CaixaBank POS terminals and ATMs.