L'oferta de lloguer a la ciutat de Barcelona

This article discusses the housing stock and rental market in the city of Barcelona, analysing variables such as mean rental and the size of homes in different districts. Rented accommodation accounts for 37% of the property market in the city, and the sector is characterised by the age of the homes, with some 85% over 25 years old. The risk that the rented stock will become progressively degraded leads to the consideration of two possible consequences: that rental properties will be offered to increasingly less affluent social groups, and that a certain proportion will move into the sales market, with the consequent closure of this form of entering the housing market. The housing stock in the rental sector represents a third of occupied first residences, and is, therefore, of considerable importance. However, the number of rented homes has been decreasing constantly over the last twenty years. Although the supply, that is the number of new homes coming into this market, is continuously increasing, the number of homes being removed is greater. It is a market composed of two dominant groups: young people, who represent all the mobility in the sector, and households whose homes are protected by indefinite contracts and rent control. The need to ensure the proper maintenance and improvement of this stock calls for a policy on controlled rents and an improvement in the fiscal treatment of investment in renovation.