The complex in Valencia, Spain’s third-largest city, was made up of a 14-story building and a shorter building, with a total of 138 apartments, according to Mr. Sendra.

At least nine people were killed by a huge fire that ripped through an apartment block in an affluent district of Spain's third largest city, Valencia, authorities said on Friday.

In 2021, he made the move more permanent by purchasing a 90-square-meter (about 970-square-foot) apartment in a Modernist building from the mid-1920s in Barcelona’s lively Sant Antoni neighborhood.