MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he would propose to ban purchasers from outside the European Union from buying properties, as the government seeks to curb rising housing prices, which have become an increasing source of friction.

Spain's Prime Minister has justified taxing or even banning non-EU non-residents from buying Spanish homes because they only want "to speculate", but the stats prove there are far bigger fish to fry in Spain's housing crisis.

Non-residents from outside the EU bought some 23,000 houses and flats in Spain in 2023. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Spain is planning a raft of measures to address its brewing housing crisis, including an up to 100% tax on properties bought by people who are neither citizens nor residents of the European Union.

Spain is working on implementing a tax as high as 100 percent for houses purchased by non-EU citizens to mitigate its housing crisis.

Spain is planning to impose a tax of up to 100% on the value of properties bought by non-residents from countries outside the EU, such as the UK. Announcing the move, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the "unprecedented" measure was necessary to meet the country's housing emergency.