The Journal of Financial Crises Volume 3 Issue 2 2021 Spain: Sociedad de Gestión de Activos procedentes de la Reestructuración Bancaria (SAREB) David Tam Yale Program on Financial Stability Sean Fulmer Yale Program on Financial Stability Follow this and additional works at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/journal-of-financial-crises Part of the Economic Policy Commons, Finance and Financial Management Commons, Macroeconomics Commons, Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation Commons, Policy History, Theory, and Methods Commons, and the Public Administration Commons Recommended Citation Tam, David and Fulmer, Sean (2021) "Spain: Sociedad de Gestión de Activos procedentes de la Reestructuración Bancaria (SAREB)," The Journal of Financial Crises: Vol. 3 : Iss. 2, 726-756. Available at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/journal-of-financial-crises/vol3/iss2/30 This Case Study is brought to you for free and open access by the Journal of Financial Crises and EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Spain: Sociedad de Gestión de Activos procedentes de la Reestructuración Bancaria (SAREB)1 David C. Tam2 and Sean Fulmer3 Yale Program on Financial Stability Case Study June 23, 2021 Abstract In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis, the Spanish real estate market struggled to recover, which posed significant issues for savings banks that had an outsized exposure to the real estate sector. The Spanish government created Sociedad de Gestión de Activos procedentes de la Reestructuración Bancaria (SAREB) in 2012 to buy impaired real estate assets from troubled banks and sell them over a 15-year period using funds from an up to €100 billion ($123 billion) loan from the European Financial Stability Facility.