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ONE OF THE FOUR HOUSINGS IS BOUGHT BY EXTRANJEROS
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The buying and selling of housings for foreign persons in the province is from
675 million euros to the trimester, of them next to billion euros in these
operations that are realized in the Valencian Community, by the Foundation
“Ceimigra” reflecting the year 2007 « Migration in an unequal world »,
presented recently by the Foundation Ceimigra, and financed by Bancaja and the
Immigration Counsilship.
The yearbook, which gathers information of the Department of Housing during the
last trimester of 2006, extracts that they sold in the Community more than 7.200
housings to foreigners, of which 4.700 correspond to the province of Alicante
that is, a major movement of real estate operations on the part that immigrants
generate, much ahead of Valencia, registering 1.600 deals of this type, and of
Castellón, with 746.
It supposes that next to 70 % of the whole of the real estate deals of
foreigners in the Valencian Community they take place in the province of
Alicante, which concentrates 55 % of all the resident foreigners on the
autonomic territory. Alicante, also, is the province with foreigners' major
proportion of the country, with next to 390.000 citizens of other countries,
which supposes 20 % on the entire population. Of them, slightly more than the
half of inhabitants comes from countries of the European Union.
Of the whole of 4.763 housings that were an object of deal, the big majority
they corresponded to free housing and only 44 to protected housing. Equally, of
the global number of buying and selling of housings, 1.977 were housings of new
construction (41 %) and 2.766 corresponded to second hand houses (58 %). Inside
the entire real estate deals of the province-17.103 during the last trimester of
last year-, the ones that were carried out by persons of other countries meant
more than 25 %  all of deals, for what one of the four operations of this type
were realized by foreign residents, and one of every five in the Community.
Other of the information that is gathered in the yearbook of resident
foreigners in Spain shows a preference from Alicante localities and ads that 18
% of the foreign population of the whole Spain chooses this province to buy
housing, ahead of others as Madrid, Barcelona or Valencia.