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Renting a 90 m² home costs less each month than owning it. Owning counts interest, running costs and the return the deposit could earn, at the appraised value; rent is the mean of new leases. Repaying the loan is saving, so it is left out.

Rent per month
€710
Owning per month
€960

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Starting from the average appraised value of €3,016/m², and the mean rent of leases signed in 2024, €7.9/m² a month, in Almuñécar, and a mortgage rate of 3.0%.

Assumptions
90
3
1
Property tax (IBI), insurance, maintenance and the community of owners.
3
What the deposit and purchase costs could earn if invested instead.
7
Transfer tax or VAT, stamp duty, notary and land registry, paid once.

Renting costs less each month than owning.

Rent a month
€710
Owning a month, not recovered
€952
Interest
€611
Running costs
€226
Return given up
€115
Cash out a month, if buying
€1,256

The comparison counts only the costs of owning you never get back: interest, running costs and what the deposit and purchase costs could earn elsewhere. Loan repayments build equity, so they are left out. So is any rise in the home's value, because nobody knows it in advance. Rents here are the mean rent of leases signed in the year, from landlords' income tax returns (AEAT); prices are appraised values, not sale prices.

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At the average appraised value, a 90 m² home costs €271,422. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,035 a month. Spain sets no cap on the payment; lenders must assess each borrower's solvency.

Payment, two incomes
41%
Payment, one income
83%

Figures for Granada province: Almuñécar has no reliable figures of its own.

38.6% more homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.

Licensed, 12 months
2,235

Figures for Granada province: Almuñécar has no reliable figures of its own.

Buyers living abroad bought 3.4% of the homes sold here in the four quarters to Q2 2026.

Bought by buyers abroad, 12 months
3.4%

Appraised values have fallen by 3% or more 3 times since 2020. The deepest began in Q2 2022.

Deepest fall
−8.9%
Recovery from the low
9 months

15.1% of the 29,769 homes counted in the 2021 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.

Empty, 2021 census
15.1%
Empty homes
4,507