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Andorra
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Andorra

Andorra has Europe's most distinctive housing market — a small Alpine principality with substantial tourism and tax-residency-driven foreign demand. The contemporary Llei de l'habitatge framework anchors the country's affordability response.

Andorra's housing landscape

Andorra combines micro-state housing-system + Pyrenees-region context + French + Spanish housing-traditions cross-influence.

Andorra's housing system reflects its distinctive national context within the broader European housing-policy landscape.
Diari d'Andorra

Cooperative + social housing context

Cooperative-housing tradition in Andorra operates within the broader regional housing-policy framework. The contemporary cooperative-housing-revival opportunity sits alongside the established housing-finance + governance institutions.

Andorra la Vella + national housing policy

Andorra's housing politics runs through municipal + national channels. Diari d'Andorra, BonDia, Andorra Difusió cover from different angles.

Andorra housing policy arc
  1. Contemporary[source]

    Current housing-policy framework

    Andorra combines micro-state housing-system + Pyrenees-region context + French + Spanish housing-traditions cross-influence.

  2. 2025-03-06[source]

    Omnibus law caps foreign buyers and halts new tourist flats

    Parliament passed the Llei del Creixement Sostenible i Dret a l'Habitatge (Sustainable Growth and Right to Housing Law): foreign buyers limited to 2 flats, developments at least 50% affordable rental, no new tourist licences.

  3. Jan 2026[source]

    Omnibus Law 2 doubles tax on foreign property purchases

    Parliament passed Omnibus Law 2 by 16 votes to 8, raising the tax on foreign property purchases to 6% on the first and 10% thereafter, and passive residency to €1 million.

  4. 2026-06-03[source]

    Law ends Andorra's rent-contract extensions by 2030

    Parliament passed the llei de desintervenció progressiva dels lloguers (progressive rent deregulation law): about 20,000 of 25,000 rental contracts lose automatic extensions gradually between 2027 and 2030.

Lighthouse city in Andorra: Andorra la Vella

Andorra's housing-policy + cooperative-housing initiatives run primarily through Andorra la Vella. Library still building out.

References

Statistics3Click on any number to see the source

Housing market

Population & migration

Further sources5

Funding & land tenure

What a housing cooperative could actually build on here
Cities researched1Andorra la Vella
Best affordable-housing supportNo verified scheme3 researched programmes across this country
Office→housing conversionNone foundStrongest change-of-use incentive found here

Land tenure has not been assessed for Andorra yet — that is a gap in the research, not a finding.

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