Despite the pandemic, some of Spain’s most sparsely populated regions are seeing foreigners buy up more properties than ever before. Here are the places where they’re buying and why overseas buyers are taking an interest in areas that have long been overlooked.
At least 50,000 people took to the streets of Madrid on Sunday to draw attention to the emptying of the countryside, a growing issue for rural voters with less than a month to go before general
elections.
Up to 1,840 of these municipalities scattered around Spain’s interior are undergoing “irreversible depopulation” but some people refuse to give up on them.
