La intermediación inmobiliaria ante los nuevos retos de la vivienda

Identifier:  TDX:3040

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX3040

Authors:  Caballé Fabra, Gemma

Abstract:
The real estate brokerage profession in Spain has been liberalized or deregulated since 2000. Since then, anyone can become real estate agent without having any academic qualification neither join any professional body. The reason for the liberalization was to promote economic growth, but the externalities this liberalization could trigger in relation to preventive legal security in real estate and housing field were not taken into account (art. 9.3 of the Spanish Constitution, hereinafter , SC); neither those related to the protection of consumers and people in need for housing (art. 51 SC), nor in terms of the right of people to access decent and adequate housing (art. 47 SC). This thesis states the need to clarify the contractual relationship with real estate agents, the necessity that they get a proper training at University degree level and their compulsory registration in a public institution. Thus, we extend their functions and responsibilities towards consumers and those in need of housing. In the end, the thesis shows the necessary restructuring of real estate brokerage profession in light of the new housing challenges that appeared due to the 2007 financial crisis.