This is the result of the financialisation of homes. Dirty money, be it from developing nations or the rich in the advanced economies is seeking secure havens. And what is more secure than nations, like those of the EU, which protect such transactions via weak regulatory systems. That this has occurred has to do more with a few judges and prosecutors in Spain than a efficient rule of law.
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