2023-12-17 07:30:57
Becoming independent can seem like a luxury for part of the population. The rise in prices of housing makes emancipation difficult, a phenomenon that is aggravated when the person who wants to become independent chooses to do it alone. The disjunctive of renting a studio for one person or a room in a shared flat is accompanied by a big difference in price. In Girona city, specifically, this one difference is 69%being more expensive to choose the privacy of a study.
Rent a studio for one person in Girona it costs 675 euros on average, 22% more than a year ago. Renting a room in a shared flat has also become more expensive in the last twelve months, specifically by 18%, although the price is lower than a studio and is in the 400 euros on averageaccording to the Idealista real estate portal.
34.5% of the salary
If we contrast these figures with the average salary in the demarcation, we see that to rent a studio for one person it is necessary to allocate 34.5% of the gross salary. If we take into account the most up-to-date data up to the date of the average Social Security contribution bases until June of this year, the average salary in Girona’s counties in 2023 will be around 1,956 euros gross per month.
On the other hand, for a person who receives the interprofessional minimum wage (SMI), 1,080 euros per month in 14 paymentsmust allocate more than 60% of their monthly salary to be able to rent a studio for one person in Girona.
Regarding studies, the price in Girona is below the Spanish average, which is 700 euros, 12% more than a year ago. On the other hand, rooms in shared flats are more expensive in Girona than the national average, where the price is 380 euros per month.
The “boom” of rooms
In the last year there has been a “boom” in the rental of rooms, since, on the real estate portals that receive the most visits, the marketing of this type of rental, which involves a subdivision of the homes, has become in its usual offer, explains the Chamber of Urban Property of Girona. For example, according to data from Fotocasa, the offer of shared flats has grown by 20% in recent months in Madrid, while in the city of Barcelona this increase has reached up to 30%.
Renting a house by rooms is an increasingly widespread bet by landlords, because this is a way to get a higher yield from your properties as a result of the fact that the new state law does not include, for the moment, any kind of conditions or limit the price of this. A will of the owners that coincides in a time like the current one where there is a great demand from people who cannot bear the prices of the current rental market and who therefore see in the rental of a room a minimum response to their residential needs, while waiting to be able to improve the personal conditions that will allow them to access an entire property, they consider from the Chamber of Urban Property of Girona.
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