Green light to the declaration of new tensioning areas to put a brake on the escalation of rental prices. 21 municipalities in Navarra are added to mechanism, in addition San Sebastián and A Coruña, the first city in a community governed by the PP for which it is requested to activate the procedure, according to the Official State Gazette (BOE). Today, there are 301 municipalities declared as hot points in four different autonomous communities ,.
The declaration of tension zones is a prerogative contemplated in these are areas where real estate prices have risen to the point that they are expelling citizens, in practice, the statement intervenes the market with the introduction of a price control: it limits the possibility of making renting contracts more expensive at the same time that it establishes fiscal bonuses for the owners who reduce the income for their urnts.
The authorities empowered to declare these areas are the autonomous communities, the competent administration in housing. This administrative and regulatory bicephaly – but the territories have to be applied – is impacting on the scope of the law, since several regional barons of the PP, which governs in 11 of the 17 communities, have shown their rejection of implementing it.
. He has requested it for the vast majority of its municipalities and brings together almost all of the population that lives in these perimeters (more than seven million people). The Basque Country and Navarra accepted the mechanism last year, requesting its implementation in several locations. Galicia, where the right governs, has just activated it for A Coruña, and Santiago de Compostela will soon join that statement. Asturias is processing it, as well as other Basque municipalities.
The criteria for defining these perimeters, usually small areas equivalent to the census districts, are two, and do not have to occur at the same time: that the average cost of rent or mortgage, more expenses and supplies, exceeds 30% of the average income of the households in the area or that the purchase or rental prices have exceeded in more than three points the IPC of the community where they are located in the five years before Tensioning.
In these areas, small owners who formalize a new rental contract are obliged to maintain the price of the precedent – at the margin of the, which is based on a new index – and will not be able to add costs or expenses that were no longer contemplated. They can only raise the rent, with a maximum limit of 10%, if they carry out certain rehabilitation or accessibility works or commit to the tenant staying in the house for 10 or more years. In addition, those lessors who lower the rental price by at least 5% can be deduced up to 90% of the taxes that pay for these returns.
that to be qualified as such they must concentrate more than 10 urban properties in their hands or a built area of more than 1,500 square meters of residential use – it is also possible to include small owners in this category that have more than five homes in tension areas. When setting the prices of the new rental contracts, they must be governed by which the Housing Law also creates. The same reference is worth the small owners who take their properties for the first time or who have not leased them in the previous five years. The standard also forces administrations to execute measures to increase the offer of rent and cool prices in these perimeters with a three -year plan.
The Ministry led by Isabel Rodríguez defends that the new legislation works, and does so using the data of Catalonia. It emphasizes that in Barcelona rental prices have been reduced by 8.9%, 4.9% in the areas declared tension in the community and 4.7% in the whole of the autonomous territory. At the same time, it emphasizes that the offer has not been reduced by the new regulations, since in Catalonia, 11,807 contracts have been signed.
The new declared areas tension and collected in the BOE published on Tuesday are A Coruña, in Galicia, a condition requested by the City Council (PSOE) and was resolved by the community (PP); In the Basque Country, San Sebastián, the first capital of the province of Euskadi in doing so, and the municipality of Galdakao (District 2). The Navarrese localities that have activated the mechanism are Pamplona, Tudela, Valle de Egüés, Burlada, Barañáin, Zizur Mayor, Estella-Lizarra, Aranguren, Berriozar, Tafalla, Ansoáin, Villava, Corella, Valle de Elorz, Cintruénigo, Baztan, Altsasu, Huarte, Berriopla, San Adrián and Peralta.
