The average age for purchasing an appartment for the Spanish was thirty-three years of age during the first half of 2009, which indicates that the buyers are becoming younger and younger, according to a survey carried out by the Expofincas Group, a specialist in real estate intermediation. According to the report, the average age of purchase in 2008 was thirty-five, two years more than the average recorded in the first half of 2009, which makes clear a progressive tendency of recovery of the real estate market and indicates the need felt among the Spanish to become independent at ever-earlier ages.
The city that has the youngest purchasers is Barcelona, with an average customer aged thirty. At the other end of the scale, Madrid stands out with an older average buyer, aged thirty-five. In the Canary Islands, the average was situated at thirty-four years of age.