Spain Pushes Ahead With Plan to Tax Non-EU Home Buyers 100%

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-22/sanchez-pushes-ahead-with-plan-to-tax-non-eu-home-buyers-100

by bloomberg

27 comments

  1. What are non-EU immigrants supposed to do? They just can’t realistically buy a house anymore in Spain?

  2. Buy citizenship in Hungary or Slovakia than buy a house. Profit

  8. I remember seeing a documentary where a group of elderly English retirees were living in Spain, but voting for Brexit…. It boggles my mind how stupid some people can be……

  13. Good. In my country 1 single jewish business man owns multiple apartment blocks! His own mini jewish city. He then sells or rents them for astronomic prices. My country should also tax such shitty business practices.

    Edit: Also worth mentioning, normal citizens in my country, including myself, can’t possibly afford to buy these “modern” poorly built apartments because they are way too expensive 🙂 Only the wealthy build them and then extort the poor with idiotic prices. Not to mention, if like me, you want to buy a house instead of a shitty 1 bedroom apartment. You`re shit out of luck.

  14. I guess they’re sick of all the Anglo retirees buying up everything.

  16. The loop hole is the Brits, Russians, Canadians and US citizens. Apply for residency in Hungry which has thee lowest tax rate in the EU Personal Income Tax (IRPF) @ 15%, Spain is 54%.
    Paying the bare minimum tax in Hungry and then simply buy a house in Spain, don’t even bother paying the SUMA as nothing will happen, they go “home” for medical treatment if needed.

  17. About time. It would be beautiful if this were retroactive for those who bought and don’t live in Spain.

  18. As long as the uk government matches he law, no worries.

    I suppose it won’t really have the same impact, Spaniard can’t buy a house in their own country let alone a second one in the UK

  19. Is this actually a solution? Seems like scapegoating and political diversion.

    Cant help but think its not tackling the underlying issues that Spain just isnt building enough houses. Even if you stopped all foreigners buying Spanish property, theyre not building enough to meet demand at which point, theyre only ever getting more unaffordable for locals.

    Feel like investing in local property developers, the skilled workers needed, freeing up land and building more houses is more of an actual solution. Like theres actual economic benefits in terms of more jobs, better pay, more local investment etc versus what seems to be the potential to create animosity between other nations who, for the most part, contribute a fair amount.

    Appreciate if its a case of dont want foreigners but given the rise in tourism, doesn’t seem to be going that way. And wont this just reduce higher spending other countries in favour of generally lower spending EU nationals (excluding the Nordic countries who are about on par with UK, US etc)?

    Understand im a brit and arguably could affect me but for what its worth it just doesnt really appeal to me as a country to move to or have a holiday home. I know its a favoured destination for a lot of brits and weve a bad rep (probably why it doesnt appeal to me) but is the issue actually Brits (and other non EU countries) or is it actually just bad governance? And how effective do locals think this will be? I can imagine its something thats pretty easy to get behind but the benefits dont seem particularly obvious. Feel like its the equivalent of us blaming migrants when the underlying issue is more about shit government.

  20. I do have to ask the obvious question about their plans for Gibraltarians who live and work across the border.

  21. It should be 100% for Non-Spaniards, just look at the recent protests in the Islands.

  22. I’m British and I think this is a brilliant idea. Perfect way to impact mostly people who voted for Brexit without impacting us who voted remain as I would guess most UK ‘expats’ in Spain would be of the older generation who voted for Brexit.

    Also great for the locals who are being priced out / out competed by people who earn a higher wage from another country.

    To make it better / more impactful for the Spanish people I would say it’s better to put the tax on holiday homes?

    Then you could cover German, Dutch etc that are also taking houses that locals need but can’t be specifically targeted because of the EU. Would impact the Spanish rich but I mean who cares they’re rich.

    At least the expats live there and pay into the local economy hopefully.

  23. Does the plan also tax people buying 2nd/3rd+ homes? Otherwise it’s just the Spanish rich who will buy the homes and the housing situation won’t improve much.

  24. if something might push the Brits to return to EU it has to be this

  25. Purchase or ownership?
    Cant the just use a middleman or coownership to get around it?

  26. How about just build more housing??? In socialist Europe the solution is always some sort of a tax.

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