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We Can Accuse The Psoe Of “succumbing To The Real Estate Employer” And Rejects Its Rent Bonuses

The PSOE has begun to put figures on its proposal for bonuses to lower rents and United We can already have its rejection clear. The Socialists propose to discount up to 90% (compared to the current 60%) the rents to the owners depending on the characteristics of the house, the conditions of the tenant or the tension of the market.

The purple formation, however, considers that its partner’s approach “flagrantly violates the Government agreement” by not including the regulation of rent and they believe that it is, in addition, “antisocial, by promoting that who else has and the more it has contributed to inflate the bubble, benefit more from these incentives sustained with everyone’s money “.

After a new meeting of the teams led by David Lucas (on the part of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda) and Ione Belarra (on the part of the Vice-presidency of Social Rights), the differences between both partners on the future Housing Law return to become patent and the agreement seems, for now, unlikely.

The Socialists definitively abandon the line of directly limiting prices -main requirement of the purple ones- and, on the contrary, they bet on incentivizing sales to favor regulation without damaging supply.

With this objective, the Department of Josà © Luis Ãbalos puts on the table to reduce the current tax reduction of 60% that applies to all rentals up to 50% and from there, increase the percentage of discounts in function of the characteristics of the market.

The greatest incentives would be established in the so-called stressed market areas, where owners would obtain a 90% bonus if they agree to lower their rents by 10% compared to the previous contract. To land the measure, from Transport they resort to an example: “assuming a rental contract of 700 euros per month, if you sign a new contract for 630 euros, you would be entitled to a tax benefit in personal income tax of about 950 euros per year” , they assure.

In the case of landlords who rent to young people between 18 and 35 years of age, the reduction would be 70%, the same as for those owners who add their properties to the regular rental housing market.

“Based on this proposal, the more expensive the rent and the more homes an owner has, the greater the tax benefit he receives,” they argue from United Podemos. In addition, they criticize that the approach only takes as a reference to private owners and “does not include any measure directed at large owners constituted in companies such as Blackstone and the rest of the vulture funds, which could continue to collect abusive rents as they have been up to now and speculate with the right to housing “. The purple ones believe that in this way the PSOE is “succumbing to pressure from the real estate employers.”

Stressed market areas

In its proposal, the PSOE also establishes the declaration of stressed residential market areas on the basis of the state rental reference indices. These areas, characterized by a notable increase in prices in recent years and a higher surcharge for paying rent, will be valid for three years and the Administrations affected to “test Action Plans in that period to reverse the situation, applying effective mechanisms to contain and lower prices “.

In addition, it establishes that in these areas large homeowners must collaborate and provide information to ensure the effective use of their properties.

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