Post by account_disabled on Mar 12, 2024 10:58:57 GMT
The Housing Law has eclipsed the new edition of the Madrid Real Estate Fair (SIMA) a few hours before its entry into force. Given its arrival, political authorities and different voices from the real estate world have taken advantage of the opening of the largest fair in the sector in Spain to put on the table one of the most controversial regulations for the housing market in recent times due to measures such as the cap to rents.
The Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda Mitma), David Lucas, has defended during the institutional visit to the fair the content of this regulation that has been stuck in the Congress of Deputies for more than a year and that will be a reality tomorrow, after being published in the BOE this May 25.
"Despite many doomsayers who say that the sector Cambodia Telegram Number Data may enter into crisis, see the sector in very good health, with a great desire to build housing , with a great desire to build to rent and with a great desire to build social housing. and affordable housing. And, above all, with the stability that Spanish legislation provides so that they can achieve it. That is what we are seeing ," he stressed.
The Secretary of State has also insisted that, with the proximity of the regional and municipal elections on May 28, a political and public debate is taking place on the regulations, but that in terms of housing "there are many proposals above the table, both of city councils and autonomies, and of course of the State with 184,000 homes that we are promoting and will promote in the coming years . think that in that field the sector is very comfortable and it has moved .
Lucas has assured that he feels "positive and optimistic", and has stressed that Pedro Sánchez's Government is "working well." And he has criticized the main opposition party. "We are doing what perhaps we should have done in previous legislatures of the Popular Party, which was not promoting any public or affordable housing. We are doing that now and we are doing it thinking about making affordable housing for citizens and also with stable legislation that guarantees legal security ," he said.
It does not reinforce legal security and penalizes competitiveness, according to the sector
However, politicians, investors and economists have given a different view of the regulations. Mariano Fuentes, delegate of Urban Development of the Madrid City Council, within the framework of the conferences aimed at professionals in the sector (SIMAPRO), has been especially critical of two of the measures contemplated by the Housing Law: the limit on rents in stressed areas and the IBI surcharge on empty homes.
"Madrid has become the economic engine of Spain and southern Europe and in the city we are not going to apply a cap on rents nor are we going to increase the IBI on empty homes." Regarding the limit on rents, Fuentes has insisted that "there is not a city in the world where it has worked" and has defended that the Municipal Housing and Land Company (EMVS) has delivered 4,000 public homes in recent years. "We make 50% of the housing project in Spain and we have managed to get the investment to be fixed in Madrid," she insisted.
According to Fuentes, the Housing Law represents a market intervention, something that he has described as "completely wrong", and has highlighted the need for the public sector to go hand in hand with the private sector.
The Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda Mitma), David Lucas, has defended during the institutional visit to the fair the content of this regulation that has been stuck in the Congress of Deputies for more than a year and that will be a reality tomorrow, after being published in the BOE this May 25.
"Despite many doomsayers who say that the sector Cambodia Telegram Number Data may enter into crisis, see the sector in very good health, with a great desire to build housing , with a great desire to build to rent and with a great desire to build social housing. and affordable housing. And, above all, with the stability that Spanish legislation provides so that they can achieve it. That is what we are seeing ," he stressed.
The Secretary of State has also insisted that, with the proximity of the regional and municipal elections on May 28, a political and public debate is taking place on the regulations, but that in terms of housing "there are many proposals above the table, both of city councils and autonomies, and of course of the State with 184,000 homes that we are promoting and will promote in the coming years . think that in that field the sector is very comfortable and it has moved .
Lucas has assured that he feels "positive and optimistic", and has stressed that Pedro Sánchez's Government is "working well." And he has criticized the main opposition party. "We are doing what perhaps we should have done in previous legislatures of the Popular Party, which was not promoting any public or affordable housing. We are doing that now and we are doing it thinking about making affordable housing for citizens and also with stable legislation that guarantees legal security ," he said.
It does not reinforce legal security and penalizes competitiveness, according to the sector
However, politicians, investors and economists have given a different view of the regulations. Mariano Fuentes, delegate of Urban Development of the Madrid City Council, within the framework of the conferences aimed at professionals in the sector (SIMAPRO), has been especially critical of two of the measures contemplated by the Housing Law: the limit on rents in stressed areas and the IBI surcharge on empty homes.
"Madrid has become the economic engine of Spain and southern Europe and in the city we are not going to apply a cap on rents nor are we going to increase the IBI on empty homes." Regarding the limit on rents, Fuentes has insisted that "there is not a city in the world where it has worked" and has defended that the Municipal Housing and Land Company (EMVS) has delivered 4,000 public homes in recent years. "We make 50% of the housing project in Spain and we have managed to get the investment to be fixed in Madrid," she insisted.
According to Fuentes, the Housing Law represents a market intervention, something that he has described as "completely wrong", and has highlighted the need for the public sector to go hand in hand with the private sector.
