{"id":100000,"date":"2026-02-11T08:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/sin-categoria\/va-a-prohibir-espana-comprar-casa-a-extranjeros-no-residentes\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:55:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:55:58","slug":"spain-ban-foreign-non-resident-home-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/buyers\/spain-ban-foreign-non-resident-home-buyers\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Will Spain ban foreign non-resident home buyers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"370\" data-end=\"669\">In 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/buyers\/taxes-for-foreigners-buying-property-in-spain\/?lang=en\">access to housing<\/a> remains one of the main concerns among Spaniards. According to the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cis.es\/es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barometer of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociol\u00f3gicas (CIS)<\/a>, <strong>42.6% of the population considers housing to be one of the country\u2019s main problems,<\/strong> a figure that reflects growing social concern over rising prices and the lack of available homes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"370\" data-end=\"669\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"661\" data-end=\"1060\">In this context, property purchases by foreigners have come under political scrutiny, although the data shows a more nuanced reality. Specifically, according to figures collected between January and September 2025 by the <strong>Colegio de Registradores<\/strong>, <strong>only 13.58% of home buyers in Spain were of foreign nationality<\/strong>, compared to <strong>86.42% of Spanish nationality<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1062\" data-end=\"1350\">Even so, in 2025 the Government publicly raised the possibility of introducing restrictions on home purchases by foreign non-residents, which led to doubts about whether Spain could end up banning this type of transaction. But what is the real situation today? Can Spain ban foreign non-residents from buying property?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1062\" data-end=\"1350\"><span data-sheets-root=\"1\"><section class=\"mini-posts\"><div class=\"row align-items-center\"><div class=\"col-4 col-md-3 pt-2 pb-2\"><div class=\"mini-posts__image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/buyers\/how-to-buy-a-house-in-spain-as-a-non-resident-foreigner\/?lang=en\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/How-to-buy-a-house-in-Spain-as-a-non-resident-foreigner-355x230.png\" alt=\"How to buy a house in Spain as a non-resident foreigner\" title=\"-\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"col-8 col-md-9 pt-2 pb-2\"><h3 class=\"mini-posts__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/buyers\/how-to-buy-a-house-in-spain-as-a-non-resident-foreigner\/?lang=en\">How to buy a house in Spain as a non-resident foreigner<\/a><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fotocasa is the expert real estate portal if you are looking for your home in Spain and want to resolve your doubts about housing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":100006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"yes","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13472],"tags":[13692,13548,13552,13551,13549,13550,13547,13800],"class_list":["post-100000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buyers","tag-buy","tag-buy-in-spain","tag-housing-doubts","tag-housing-experts-in-spain","tag-housing-purchase-market-spain","tag-live-in-spain","tag-real-estate-market","tag-spain-ban-foreign-home-buyers"],"modified_by":"Patricia Andr\u00e9s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotocasa.es\/fotocasa-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}