In 2025, 75 in 100 evictions in La Rioja were for unpaid rent: 105 of 140.
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In 2025, 75 % of evictions in La Rioja were for unpaid rent (105 of 140). In Spain as a whole, it was 74.6 %.
In La Rioja, landlords are asking about €820 a month today to rent a 86 m² flat. Tenants already renting a flat like that pay €483. Per square metre, today's asking rent is 61 % higher.
Someone who saves 20 % of what they earn would need 7 years to put together the deposit for a 70 m² flat in La Rioja. With taxes, the deposit comes to about €31,000: 30 % of a €102,000 flat. We assume they earn €20,650 net a year, a typical income in the region. After that, they would still have to pay a mortgage of about €380 a month. And the average payment on a new mortgage already equals 25.1 % of average labour costs (Land Registry).
In Spain, 67.1 % of young people aged 18 to 34 live with their father or mother. Among those aged 26 to 34, 44.3 % still do (INE, 2025).
In La Rioja there are 1,371 tourist flats and 179 public rental homes owned by the region, not counting municipal ones. That's 7.7 tourist flats for every public home.
In La Rioja there are 1,371 tourist homes, 0.7 % of all homes. In Spain they make up 1.3 %.
The most extreme figures among the 20 cities and the regions. Each one with its source.
In A Coruña there were 185 evictions for unpaid rent and only 10 mortgage evictions in 2025. In 2015 the ratio was 3.5 to 1. In Vigo it is now 17 to 1.
In 2025, 93 in 100 evictions in Vigo were for unpaid rent: 171 of 183. Across Spain, it was 75 in 100.
In Palma, the asking rent today is €19.6 per square metre, double what sitting tenants pay (€9.8). In Valencia it is 99 % higher.
In Madrid, someone who saves 20 % of what they earn would need 24 years to put together the deposit for a 70 m² flat. In San Sebastián they would need 23, and in Barcelona, 22. This is our own calculation.
In the Balearic Islands, the average payment on a new mortgage is €1,342 a month, equal to 55.8 % of average labour costs. In Madrid it is 44.5 %, and in Spain, 34.3 %.
In Barcelona, 30,789 rental contracts were signed in 2025, 40 % fewer than in 2019, when 51,294 were signed. And 57 % of the flats advertised for rent are now short-term lets.
In San Sebastián, the number of flats advertised for long-term rent has fallen by 52 % in one year. Of the listings left, 62 % are short-term lets. In Barcelona it has fallen by 22 %.
In the Balearic Islands there are 21,304 tourist flats and only 2,362 public rental homes owned by the regional government, not counting municipal ones. That’s 9 tourist flats for every public home.
In Mallorca, a single host has 780 listings on Airbnb. In Barcelona, one host has 579.
Some of the originals from CASA NOSTRA.
A year ago we invited Javirroyo to paint this wall in Barcelona, which is a house. He chose to talk about housing and made more than forty cartoons and five mural proposals. He painted one: a vulture flying off with a house and a crowd of people running after it. You can see it from Avinguda Meridiana.
The rest go into the book CASA NOSTRA. And since the drawings seemed exaggerated, we went looking for these figures.
Because everyone should have a home. The book is being crowdfunded on Verkami until 4 December.
