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Spain's real estate sector starting to hum

Property prices, rents rising; construction sector adding jobs; Reits doing well

Published Fri, Sep 4, 2015 · 09:50 PM

Madrid

SERGIO Berdion lived his whole life in Madrid until 2012, when Spain's real-estate collapse drove him to Chile in search of work. Last year, he came back.

The 36-year-old, who works as an intermediary between architects and building contractors, said: "Things are definitely better. I don't know if we'll ever get back to the boom days, but there's more and more work."

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