Seasonal rentals have become an outlet used by real estate agents to avoid having to comply with the new housing law that, among other things, aims to cap prices in the main Catalan cities and municipalities. Contracts of between one and eleven months duration have been left out of the state regulations in force since May and the Catalan administration fears that it is an easy way to avoid the law. It would not be the first time, it already happened during the months after the pandemic, when the law to contain rental prices was in force, knocked down by the Constitutional Court.
“The Government will not allow the use of seasonal rentals as a way to circumvent and circumvent the limitation of the rental price,” said the recently appointed Regional Minister for Territories, Ester Capella, in her first speech in parliamentary committee since she took office. charge a few weeks ago.
This measure will be added to the consideration as stressed residential market areas of 140 municipalities, among which are all the large nuclei, 80% of the population of Catalonia). In all of them they want to apply the limitation of the rental price under the new housing law approved by the Government of Pedro Sánchez this year. Said delimitation is already on public display and, according to Capella, it is not necessary for the city councils to make a decree declaring it, as the one in Barcelona did last week.
The new councilor has also promised to carry out “a new regulation of the urban planning regime for houses for tourist use” thinking about places where “tourist use produces price tensions and does not guarantee a sufficient supply of rental housing to satisfy the needs of the resident population”, as defended by Capella.
He has done so in a speech to present the guidelines of his department, much more focused on housing than on infrastructure, unlike what his predecessors used to do. In this portfolio there is no surprise and Capella has insisted on the classic of the classics: the complete transfer of Rodalies.
