Sareb has up to a year to adapt 12,000 rental apartments

Sareb has a total of 21,000 homes available to the public administration for purchase that could be used for social rent, of which 9,000 have already been completed and are ready for occupancy, and almost 12,000 will be within “between six and twelve months”.

The company calculates that this time is needed to adapt the homes, which in some cases includes solving procedures, such as an energy certificate or certificate of habitability, and in others undertaking small reforms, Sareb sources explained to EFE.

However, And 9,000 houses that have already been completed and are in normal used conditions, as well as almost 12,000 that are awaiting adaptation, have a permit for first use..

This would dispel the idea that some apartments are half-built or do not comply with regulations. However, it does not rule out that many properties need work to bring them back to habitable conditions, which could have an average cost of around 18,000 euros per property.

Location of 21,000 homes

Until now, it was known that the areas with the largest supply of Sareb homes were the Mediterranean Arc and some provinces of Galicia, Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla y León. The community of Valencia alone concentrates 4,950 properties, followed by Catalonia with 3,539 homes; Castilla-La Mancha, with 2,288 or Andalusia with 2,040.

Information updated this Friday by the company itself offers more detail, as it breaks down the 20,768 available homes by province. Valencia leads the classification, with 2,266; followed by Murcia, with 2,093; and from Castellón, with 1,769.

Above 1000 homes are Tarragona, with 1364; and Toledo, with 1,231.

Below a thousand but above 600 properties are Alicante (915), ACoruña (896), Lérida (863), Barcelona (858), Almería (750), Ciudad Real (613) and Cantabria (611).

Next, between 500 and 200 apartments, Zaragoza (485), Madrid (455), Gerona (453), Huelva (415), La Rioja (388), Valladolid (301), Granada (281), Las Palmas (275), Guadalajara (270), Ávila (260), Pontevedra (249), Salamanca (229), Segovia (228).

Below 200, but above one hundred: León (196), Badajoz (193), Sevilla (176), Asturias (171), Málaga (167), Burgos (163), Cádiz (160), Balearics (120), Cáceres (112) ), Lugo (108) and Cuenca (104). With less than 100, Soria (79), Albacete (70), Álava (63), Palencia (59), Córdoba (56), Huesca (55), Teruel (40), Jaén (35), Ourense (32), Santa Cruz de Tenerife (28), Navarra (25), Zamora (19) and Vizcaya (18).