The bank chaired by Carlos Torres has contacted four companies specializing in real-estate refinancing to negotiate with the landlords the reduction of the rental contract. According to El Secreto, citing official sources of the bank, BBVA has asked the owners of about 1,200 branches of its property to reduce by 20% the price of the monthly rent, approximately half it has in the Spanish State.
According to official data, the entity based in Bilbao had 2,593 offices in the Spanish State on 30 June, 50 fewer than at the end of 2019 and 141 fewer than a year ago.
According to El Secreto, negotiation is not going to be easy. BBVA managed four years ago to lower its rental contract and informed its owners that it would close its offices if conditions were not lowered. Now, BBVA, in addition to the drop in the rental price, intends to introduce qualitative changes such as the cost of the guarantee, guarantees and compensation in cases where the bank decides to cancel the contract unilaterally.
The BBVA Group received a profit of 4,830 million euros in 2019 (2.7% more than in 2018), since 2009 handiena.Halere, closed the first half of 2020 with losses of 1,157 million euros and its contribution has decreased by 50%.
BBVA, champion of evictions and empty homes
BBVA, Bankia, Santander and Caixabank were the promoters of 59% of the evictions that took place in the Spanish state between 2011 and 2013, when the figures of evictions driven by banks were very high on the pretext of the economic crisis. According to a report by the Mortgage Affected Platform (PAH), 84% of the people tried to negotiate with the banks the situation generated by the inability to pay the rent or mortgage. The results of these tests were negative in 93.1%.
Statistics from the first quarter of 2012 reveal that the daily average of evictions in the Spanish State was 517 so far this year. In 2019, nearly 60,000 families left homeless.
In the case of vacant housing, BBVA is also one of the main owners of public housing in the State. Gemma García, journalist at La Direct, pointed out that in Catalonia he has most of the empty floors: BBVA has 5,949 empty homes and has evicted six families this week.
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