“Prices will reach a level where demand is said to be ‘up to this point’.”

University Vice-Chancellor and Public Relations Officer Valencia real estate agentVicente Diez. Last Thursday, Luis Fabra, Chairman of the Real Estate Market Committee of the University of Zaragoza, and Luis Planelles, member of the APIVA Board of Directors, published the Real Estate Market Report with the latest housing costs.

Specifically, the price per square meter of housing in the Valencian region is 1,595 euros/m2, representing an increase of 2.6% quarter-on-quarter and 11% year-on-year, while the price in the city of Valencia is 2,585 euro/m2up 2.8% for the quarter and 14.1% year-over-year.

Vicente Diez, spokesperson for the Valencia Association of Realtors, said:The owner is now very grown up.” So, as is already happening in the student apartment rental market, it is the buyers who have to put on the brakes, and they are not willing to pay for anything. “Prices will slow down as demand reaches a point where it says ‘here we are,'” he said.

Valencia’s real estate market remains “very strong, active and robust” in terms of activity, despite some deviations in the third quarter. The Valencian region recorded a record number of sales and purchases, the highest since 2007, while the capital’s real estate market continues to perform well. downward trend “The market is not price insensitive, because it penalizes where the greatest intensity is recorded.”

Luis Fabra, Chairman of the Real Estate Market Committee of the University of Zaragoza, explained that “there is a significant fact that the supply of new homes, 6,620 construction permits and existing homes remains in short supply”, adding that “the same amount is continuously decreasing”, while the state added 15,000 homes last year, which “partly explains the upward pressure on prices”.

In fact, he notes that he expects home price increases to continue into the next quarter of 2025. Even at the beginning of 2026Because, given these data, “sellers are not willing to accept any other reality than reaching the highest possible price, even if they are willing to raise the selling price.” “If a seller sees that they have very little product and can easily sell it by raising the price, logically they will try to take advantage of that market reality,” he noted.

10,491 operations in Q3

The number of home sales in Valencia region reached 10,491 in the third quarter, ending the negative streak of the previous two quarters. This number represents a strong quarterly growth of 7.3% and a year-over-year increase of 2.5%. During the past 12 months, 40,731 sales were recorded in the Valencian region, an increase of 12% year-on-year and the highest ever recorded since 2008. These data account for 37.3% of the total sales operations in the Region of Valencia.

Meanwhile, the City of Valencia recorded a growth of 4.9%, with 2,135 sales and sales completed, with a quarterly decrease of -8.3% year-on-year and an adjusted -16.5%, with 9,774 sales completed for the year. Nevertheless, these annual sales represent 9% of the total sales of the Valencian region and 24.1% of the entire Valencian region.

by regionthe highest percentage of buys and sells were in Albal (+136.1%), Burjassot (54.9%) and Algemesí (44.7%). Conversely, Gandia (-16.6%) and Sueca (-15.4%) saw the largest decrease in the number of transactions.

The distribution of housing sales in the Valencia region has relaxed the traditional dominance of existing housing (82.9%) and improved the proportion of new housing (17.1%). Regarding, Foreign demandthis group accounts for 27% of all purchases in the region, compared to 12.8% in the state. In absolute numbers, sales were just under 7,500 units, down 2.7 units last year.

rent continues to rise

Similarly, in the rental market, “prices just keep going up.” The average rental price offered in the province is 1,663 euros, while in Valencia it is 1,663 euros. 1,508 euros. The number of rental properties for tourists continues to increase in the Valencian region, with the supply of rooms outstripping the supply of housing.

Considering this situation, as long as people have their own funds or guarantees to take out a mortgage, the “average rental price is twice the average mortgage payment” (approximately 500 euros for rent and 600 euros for mortgage), leading to an “expulsion” from the rent-to-buy market.

In the home loan sector, the number of home loans in the state was 25,494 in the third quarter of this year, an increase of 15.7% year-on-year. The average mortgage debt per house in the Valencia region amounted to 128,556 euros, with a quarterly growth rate of 2.7%. The average amount last year was €123,118, an increase of 10.2% year-on-year and the highest amount since 2008.