Present and future of the real estate sector according to experts

Experts from the Spanish home buying and selling market give their opinion on the situation of the real estate sector in 2019. At Ibiza Country Villas we have collected their statements, follow the full article to read them.

Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of Fotocasa, this website has conducted interviews with the most prominent personalities in the sector. The panorama with the emergence of the Internet, the role of real estate portals or changes in the profession are some of the topics covered.

Evolution in training: a key aspect

In the last two decades, the real estate sector has been the protagonist of a strong and determined professionalization. In the words of Gonzalo Bernardos, director of the Master's Degree in Consultancy, Management and Real Estate Promotion at the University of Barcelona and collaborator in various media, "now we have top executives with university training, including masters, and with a very broad interdisciplinary capacity.

The expert also believes that "20 years ago it was very difficult to find someone trained" but now "training is valued more and more. Ibiza Country Villas shares this analysis and that is why we give so much importance to our multidisciplinary and multi-language team.

The importance of the Internet and being up to date

Bernardos also highlights the need for real estate companies to embrace new technologies. "Today many real estate agencies in Spain deserve a great suspense, because they do not sell anything over the Internet," he says to Fotocasa.

Although he stresses that agencies have to work together online and offline, it is very interesting to highlight this aspect. After all, most clients "are in front of a mobile phone computer all day," says the teacher.

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A much more transparent and accessible real estate market

María José Corrales, real estate expert and president of vivienda2 in Madrid, makes a balance for Fotocasa on the second hand real estate market. For her, it is clear that "the evolution has been great".

According to her, the new technologies "have built a much more transparent, more accessible and professional sector". And in this new panorama, clients seek the intermediation of real estate professionals, making the visibility of the profession is much greater.

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Future and challenges of the mortgage market

Santos González, president of the Spanish Mortgage Association (AHE), has also participated in the interviews conducted for Fotocasa. The executive comments on the challenges facing the mortgage market in the near future.

"To stabilize the production of mortgages giving solution to the difficult problem of accessibility to the youngest" is, for González, the main and most important challenge for the mortgage market in Spain.

In our blog we already talked to you about the extraordinary situation of interest rates.

You can read all the full interviews in the Fotocasa's professional blog.