For the last two years, the Spanish banks have been slowly but surely turning themselves in to the biggest property owners in the country. The amount of “debt for equity,” swaps and bank repossessions is almost impossible to calculate. In fact, there is a suggestion that the banks themselves do not know exactly how much property they own. Obviously the intention behind this practice has been to artificially inflate the value of property and prevent a complete collapse.
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