During the first year that loans for under-35s to buy their first home have been in operation, the Catalan government has distributed 91.4 million euros out of the 100 million euros annually it had planned to allocate to the measure, as the ARA has learned. The Catalan Institute of Finance (ICF), which manages the program, has emphasized that they have "responded to all eligible applications".

The real estate franchise Tecnocasa has turned to the thousand offices it has throughout Spain to analyze the housing market situation and conclude that "clearly, there is a change in cycle", in the words of the company's CEO, Paolo Boarini. "It is very difficult for prices to continue rising," he warned at the presentation of the report prepared by the Tecnocasa-Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) Chair this Wednesday.

"I live through torture: all evictions are a very hard experience, but you don't live the same way at 30 as you do at 60." The speaker is Elena Olivella, 62 years old. She is, most likely, one of the last "lifelong" residents left on Ferran street in Barcelona, ​​next to the emblematic Sant Jaume square. She holds a title that also has an expiration date, because her eviction is scheduled for March 4.