Real estate agents warn that limiting the rental price will incentivize the black market and it will cause a totally different objective than the one intended with the measure: Make the market more expensive.
This is stated by the president of the Official Association of Real Estate Agents of Castellón (COAPI), Francisco Nomdedu, who explains that rental prices are not stressed in the province of Castellón despite the high demand. ‘
At this time, the Government’s forecast is to be able to approve it in Congress within about four monthss the law to contain new or existing rental pricesAs recalled this week at a press conference by the Podem deputy for Castellón, Marisa Saavedra. The deputy considers that the law that set a cap on rental prices it will go into effect in less than a year.
This new State Housing Law will act on private rentals and will give the autonomous communities the ability to establish a rental price index and contain or lower prices in new contracts for other existing ones in stressed areas where there is a abusive and sustained increase in rents, said the deputy of Podem.
The president of COAPI considers that in Castellon there are no stressed areas as maybe it happens in the big capitals. Furthermore, Nomdedà © u recalls that  «most of the owners of rental homes are small owners and not large holders.
Real estate agents affirm that the non-existence of a public rental parkr is the responsibility of public administrations and not private owners, and they add that it is necessary that the public administrations seek the right balance between the protection of the tenant and the legitimate defense of the interests of the owners.
 «We do not believe that this measure of fixing a maximum in the rental price will help because we have seen it that way, in addition, in other territories,» says the president of COAPI. And he points out that Europe has shown more than enough evidence that the control of rental prices not the right measure. Although at first it may give the impression that, indeed, the price of rent is under control, the reality is that in the course of time it involves the appearance of problems of various kinds that have a negative impact and cause a decrease in income. offer, such as problems affecting the quality of the supply, and the maintenance of the houses.
The current context of Covid makes the measure even more counterproductive. The sector is, like the economy as a whole, working to resist, so this is not the time to generate uncertainties that can cause the totally opposite effect on the rental market, which is a reduction in supply, Nomdedà © u concludes.
THE RISE OF THE IBI TO EMPTY FLOORS, ONLY FOR THE ‘GREAT’
The 50% increase in IBI for owners of empty houses proposed by the Castellón City Council will only apply to large holders, that is, to those who have more than 10 properties and, in addition, have homes empty for over a year.
In this way, from the Official Association of Real Estate Agents of Castellón (COAPI), they consider that the measure will have practically no effects on the market, since most of the apartments for rent are owned by small owners .
The Castellon City Council plans to apply the 50% surcharge of the Real Estate Tax (IBI) to 4,300 empty homes of large holders (owners of 10 possessions) from 2021. The figure represents slightly more than 33% of the 13,000 vacant flats in the city. The properties, which must have been uninhabited for more than a year, belong to vulture funds, Sareb, the real estate companies of financial institutions and the banks themselves.
This measure is included in the Strategic Housing Plan, which emphasizes that number of dwellings since it practically coincides with the demand for social homes, 4,260, an amount that shows the current lack of municipal resources, taking into account account that the consistory barely has 288 properties.
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