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  • Self-promotion housing, the new tendency construction

    The pandemic has modified the preferences of the majority of people as to their tastes in housing. So much so that the demand for construction management permits for single-family houses has increased 37% during the year. But this isn’t the only data that has grown in the area on single-family housing. According to the Notary Council, sales are 78% over and prices 16.5%

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  • Tenders in Catalonia, far below the pre-crisis numbers

    According to data from the Official Chamber of Building Contractors of Catalonia (Cambra Oficial de Contractistes d’Obres de Catalunya - CCOC), the number of bids of all the Public Administrations of Catalonia is way below those reached before the crisis of 2008. This downward trend was seen even before the health crisis of the coronavirus

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  • The steady pace of the construction sector slows down (news from October 2019)

    The balance of the first nine months of 2019 shows that numbers are slightly higher than those of 2018, but show a slowdown when compared to the previous quarter. The Industrial Observatory of Construction takes stock and explains the reasons for this tendency in the figures of some of the indicators.

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  • Increase in permissions for new buildings during the first quarter of 2019

    According to data from the Ministry of Development, the construction sector is stabilizing itself. During the first quarter of 2019, permissions granted increased nearly 20%. However, the sector continues far below the numbers attained during the housing boom

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