Rationalize the biggest purchase of a person's life. This is the maxim of a personal shopper real estate, a fairly unknown professional profile that has a single objective: to defend the interests of the buyer. One of them, Jordi Clotet, co-founder of Nexitum, publishes The 7 doors to buying your home and getting it right, having visited more than 15,000 apartments throughout his career and participated in 6,000 sales. Here's some of the advice he gives.

What do Catalans think about the construction of 50,000 public housing units? And about the rent cap? How many of them want to buy a home? How concerned are they about the housing crisis? Does it affect them directly? All these questions and many more related to housing now have concrete answers. The Center for Opinion Studies (CEO) published a dedicated survey on the subject this Friday to gain an in-depth understanding of Catalans' housing preferences.