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There are now more than 50,000 private pools in Murcia, an average of one pool for every 30 people
The construction of homes with swimming pools, whether communal or private, continues to grow in the Region of Murcia, practically tripling in the last three years.
The number of new build properties in Murcia with pools went from 162 in 2019 to 454 up to August 2022. In fact, these 454 projects registered up to last month is more than all of those approved in 2021 (402).
This is according to statistics from the Association of Architects of the Region of Murcia, which reveals an upward trend over the last few years in terms of projects approved for the construction of homes with swimming pools.
Murcia is now the autonomous community in Spain with the fifth most swimming pools per inhabitant, only behind the Balearic Islands, Valencia, Castilla y León and Andalusia. Murcia has more than 50,000 swimming pools – an average of one pool for every 30 people, as reflected in the data provided by the Spanish Association of Professionals in the Swimming Pool Sector (ASOFAP).
The love of swimming pools is evident in places such as Molina de Segura, where there are 75,000 residents and 4,748 pools – only 23 fewer than in the entire municipality of Alicante, which has 4,771 and more than 330,000 inhabitants.
The dean of the Association of Architects of the Region of Murcia, María José Peñalver, believes that this trend in the construction of private swimming pools in the Region of Murcia has to do with several factors.
First and foremost are the type of housing people want following the Covid-19 pandemic, with outdoor leisure spaces, but it is also down to the rising cost of living.
“Families have fewer and fewer holidays,” says Peñalver, “it is more expensive to travel together, and private housing is more highly valued to cope with longer and more intense periods of heat.”
In addition, he says, “people used to build a single-family home and after three or four years they would decide to build a swimming pool. Now they are built from scratch.”
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