{"id":48665,"date":"2025-02-07T12:39:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T12:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/?p=48665"},"modified":"2025-02-07T16:07:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T16:07:33","slug":"la-generalitat-adquiere-743-viviendas-por-72-millones-de-euros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/la-generalitat-adquiere-743-viviendas-por-72-millones-de-euros\/","title":{"rendered":"The Generalitat acquires 743 homes for 72 million euros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Salvador Illa&#8217;s Government of Catalonia (the Generalitat) has acquired, for an amount of <strong>72 million euros<\/strong>, a total of <strong>743 homes<\/strong> from DIVARIAN, the real estate company that was created by BBVA together with Cerberus, an American investment fund and one of the largest housing holders in Catalonia and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>These 743 homes are &#8220;toxic&#8221; assets, that is, they come from <strong>foreclosure proceedings<\/strong>\u00a0that BBVA (like other large banks) was accumulating until it sold them <em>en bloc<\/em> to the Cerberus fund. Now the Catalan Government has bought them by exercising the so-called &#8220;<strong>right of first refusal and withdrawal<\/strong>&#8220;, which gives preference to the Administration and, only in the event that it is not interested in acquiring the assets, they go to the free market.<\/p>\n<p>These homes are home to families who, in many cases, have previously been subject to eviction proceedings. Through the social programme &#8216;<em>Reallotgem<\/em>&#8216;, the Generalitat pays the rent directly to this large housing holders and thus ensures that the families can continue to enjoy the same affordable rent.<\/p>\n<p>It should be remembered that all large housing holders (in Catalonia, any person or company owning <strong>more than 5 residential properties<\/strong> in areas declared &#8220;stressed&#8221;) who decide to sell the homes they bought in foreclosure proceedings, are required by law to first offer their purchase to the Generalitat for a price assessed in application of the right of first refusal and withdrawal before going to the free market.<\/p>\n<p>The Catalan Minister for Housing, S\u00edlvia Paneque, has indicated with satisfaction that the price paid by the Catalan Administration for those homes (72 million euros) is <strong>clearly lower than their free market value<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The newly acquired homes are <strong>distributed throughout Catalonia<\/strong>, although the following areas stand out in terms of volume:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u2022<\/span>\u00a0 187 in Barcelon\u00e8s<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u2022<\/span>\u00a0 192 in Vall\u00e8s Occidental<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u2022<\/span>\u00a0 60 in Vall\u00e8s Oriental<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u2022<\/span>\u00a0 55 in Camp de Tarragona<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u2022<\/span>\u00a0 43 in Catalunya Central<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u2022<\/span>\u00a0 54 in Girona<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u2022<\/span>\u00a0 59 in Lleida<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u2022<\/span>\u00a0 22 in Maresme<\/p>\n<p>This agreement represents the largest purchase of housing by the Catalan Department of Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition, and is part of the Catalan government&#8217;s programme to reach the figure of <strong>50,000 additional public housing units<\/strong> for affordable rental by 2030, a programme with a <strong>budget of 1.1 billion euros per year<\/strong>. Currently, the social rental housing stock in Catalonia accounts for 1.7% of the total, and the Generalitat has set itself the goal of reaching 15%.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?l=es-ES&amp;phone=34608010051\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17273\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"desp-petit aligncenter wp-image-17273\" src=\"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/casas-en-el-maresme-mobil-en.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?l=es-ES&amp;phone=34608010051\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17274\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"desp-gran aligncenter wp-image-17274 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/casas-en-el-maresme-en.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/b><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Salvador Illa&#8217;s Government of Catalonia (the Generalitat) has acquired, for an amount of 72 million euros, a total of 743 homes from DIVARIAN, the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,122,117,172],"tags":[69,19,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48665"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48684,"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48665\/revisions\/48684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestmaresme.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}