The price of new construction housing in Alicante capital is today at 2,741 euros per square meter, which represents an increase of 9.4% compared to last year and an increase of 9% in a quarterly comparison, according to data from the platform real estate big data Brains Real Estate.

On average, buying a new home in the city of Alicante costs, on average, 357,289 euros, since the most common recently built apartments have an average surface area of ??around 130 square meters.

Another relevant piece of information revealed by the aforementioned report is the publication time, that is, how long it takes for a new construction home to sell from the time it goes on the market. There are 5.6 months today in Alicante, just 1.8% more than a year ago, but 3.7% more than the previous quarter.

In line with these data, the company Metrovacesa announced yesterday that it has begun marketing its Aelia development, a new construction project located in the Alicante neighborhood of Benalúa, a complex where it plans to invest 13.2 million euros.

It is a building with 46 homes distributed in two, three and four-bedroom apartments, with the largest measuring 168 square meters, as well as a garage. This is Metrovacesa’s fourth development in the city of Alicante, and it will have a community pool on the roof of the building.

Precisely yesterday and today, an international meeting was held at the University of Alicante that brings together property registrars, professors and professors of Civil and Private Law from different Spanish and European universities to debate housing.

The rector of the University of Alicante, Amparo Navarro, inaugurated it yesterday, highlighting that “when we talk about housing there are always current issues because it is an area that arouses a lot of interest, not only because it is a constitutional right, but because of its dimension in the field. of Law and society.”

It is, he added, a “very cross-cutting issue because it covers issues as diverse as guaranteeing access to housing, especially among young people, small investors who have rental homes, the tax issues involved in housing, as well as the tourist rental, which affects property owners and managers.”

During the congress, the specialists gathered analyze issues such as the existing protection against illegal occupation of homes, the challenges and opportunities that rental of tourist homes brings, as well as housing policies in Spain and Europe.

Mortgage financing, the contractual restrictions introduced by the Housing Law, experience in the application of the law on real estate credit contracts, insolvency and irresponsible credit, or the protection of buyers of homes under construction will also be addressed.

Among the participants in the congress, the interventions of the acting president of the Supreme Court, Francisco Marín, the president of the Spanish Mortgage Association, Santos González and the dean of the College of Registrars of Spain, María Emilia Adán, in charge of the closing of the congress stand out. .

Representatives of the UNESCO Housing Chair, property registrars, professors and professors of Civil and Private Law from different Spanish and European universities, students and professionals from the academic world also participate as speakers.