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Housing in Spain

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Since I’m in Spain, here is some heartening Spanish news:

If you’ve got a rented apartment in Spain, congrats

Now it belongs to your tenant

Sánchez dropped a decree that says you can’t raise the rent by more than 2% until 2027. That you also can’t evict them until 2030 if they’ve got nowhere to go. And that the contracts you already had signed get extended two more years, whether you like it or not

The second decree says the tenant can renew forever. If you want your place back, you’ve gotta explain what for, and if you can’t explain it, you pay them compensation to get them to leave (I doubt this one’ll pass Congress)

But hey, no worries, the title’s still in your name. The property tax too.

https://x.com/arquiguru/status/2105108484756807782

How is it heartening? Well, the rest of the news is worse.

At this point in time, I don’t understand how anybody can vote for liberal/leftist/whatever they call themselves parties.

4 responses to “Housing in Spain”

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    Anonymous

    Yea they did that where I live during the covid nonsense. My family does rentals on both sides. The area we live in is not a white majority area by any stretch of the imagination. So despite the best efforts to make sure our tenants were the best we could get (and this was about 50/50 whites and blacks) during that time, we still had several who refused to pay for months that we could not throw out due to that nonsense.

    I offered the solution of hiring some local rednecks to remove the doors and throw the parasite’s belongings into the streets, but my solution was turned down by the rest of my family. (Keep in mind this was 2020/21, not 2026 where it would have likely been actually considered.) Thankfully the situation was turned around as a judge said this is moronic and told the city to lift such procedures, and we immediately got rid of the ones who had been refusing to pay.

    As a side note most of what we rent out is 3 bedroom 2 bath duplexes in the better half of town. Our rental prices typically ranged from 650 to 900 depending upon how big and new the place was. We also tended to keep most tenants for ten plus years at a time, and generally didn’t go up on the rent while they were there. Most of the other rentals in the area at the time which were of the same size were renting for 800 to 1100. This was a decent price for the area. Before the madness that swept through America raising rental prices by 100% or more in a year or two.

    If you want to absolutely wreck people’s ability to rent this is how you go about it. From the landlord’s point of view. If I am forced to watch someone essentially live for free via government decree in a property that I or my family paid tons of money to have built, have paid endless property taxes, insurance, repair bills, etc. on. I would rather burn it to the ground while they were gone than allow such a situation last for more than a day.

    Frankly, there are only three types of people who support this sort of madness. Those who have never owned property and either cannot or will not consider how things look from the other side. Those who want political power and are willing to sink to any low to get it. And those who are just too stupid to realize the consequences of their demands.

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    PaulS

    He’s standing up for the people against the greedy landlords. How is this not the most leftist thing ever?

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      Clarissa

      The number of rental listings immediately dropped off a cliff. Landlords will no longer rent to the people in question. Do you know who they will rent to? The government. The whole scheme exists for one reason: to create housing supply for migrants who will be housed for free by the government.

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        PaulS

        So win win?

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