Overview
- The Sánchez government approved two emergency decrees that Congress must validate, with one consolidating eviction protections and anti‑speculation rules and the other proposing indefinite‑duration rental contracts.
- The first decree extends the 'scudo sociale' eviction moratorium to 2030, freezes annual rent updates until 2028, bans speculative purchases by investment funds for two years, and tightens rules on short‑term and room rentals.
- The package pairs tenant measures with fiscal steps such as a 10% VAT on tourist flats, higher tax on undistributed Socimi profits, powers for municipalities to tax vacant homes, zero‑interest first‑home loans, and tax breaks for landlords.
- Tenant groups and some left parties denounced splitting the bills as weakening demands and have kept mass encampments, caceroladas and calls for strikes to press deputies to approve the full agenda.
- Parliamentary arithmetic is fragile so the first decree is viewed as likelier to pass while the indefinite‑contract reform is politically precarious, and failure or amendment of the texts could shape Spain’s housing politics and fiscal outlook going forward.