The Barcelona City Council continues to fight to regulate the rental market in the Catalan capital. As mentioned above, the Plenary of the Barcelona City Council has approved declare Barcelona as a "tense housing market area" . This measure was initially approved in...
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Barcelona City Council declares the city as a tense housing market area
The Barcelona City Council continues to fight to regulate the rental market in the Catalan capital. The Plenary of the Barcelona City Council has approved initially to declare Barcelona as a "tense housing market area" . This declaration will allow the regulation of...
The impact of rent regulation in Barcelona
Nine months after the approval of the rental law in the Catalan Parliament which regularized the control of rental prices in Barcelona and other 60 towns with more than 20,000 inhabitants, the market continues to consolidate The three main consequences that idealista...
How to find the perfect tenant?
"When I found what I thought was the perfect tenant, I realized he was cheating on me. He showed me 4,000-euro payrolls and I thought he was a good candidate. I was wrong. The payroll was fake and I had to hire a lawyer to try to get rid of it " This phrase comes from...
Income 2021: Do I have to declare the income of the communities of owners?
One of our main tasks as Collegiate Property Administrators is to ensure compliance with the tax obligations of the communities of owners and report on the procedures and deadlines to comply with them. For this reason and before the end of the 2020 income campaign in...
Errors when changing from seasonal homes to flats for tourist use: fraud of the law
In the year of the pandemic, many owners decided to withdraw their homes from the vacation market to use them for long-term rental. In fact, the latest data from the INE show a decrease of 27,000 flats for tourist use in Spain only between August 2020 and last...
Repealed the article of the mortgage law that could leave a buyer without a home, but with a mortgage
The Government has repealed Article 28 of the Mortgage Law which, from time immemorial, had become a toothache for real estate agencies, since established a Two-year period in which the sale of a home of the deceased without forced heirs had no effect in the Land...
New reference value of the Land Registry for when buying a home
Congress has given the green light to a bill that will completely change the way in which the Capital Transfer Tax (ITP) is calculated, the tax paid by those taxpayers who buy a used home. And it is that the buyer will not pay taxes for what the house has cost, but...
The Government will appeal the rental law of Catalonia and ask for its suspension
The Minister of Territorial Policy and Civil Service, Miquel Iceta, hinted this Wednesday in Congress that the Government will appeal the rental law of Catalonia that regulates prices, responding to a Bildu MP, who moved the question from the Tenants' Union, after...
New light bill: Can my neighbors complain if I turn on the washing machine at night? Can they fine me?
Putting the washing machine at night has become an alternative for many consumers following the entry into force of the new electricity bill, which distinguishes three time slots depending on their cost, being from 00.00 to 08.00 hours on cheaper. However, the noise...
These are the requirements that must be met in community pools this summer of 2021
On June 12, the RESOLUTION SLT / 1840/2021, of June 11, by which the measures in public health are extended and modified to contain the epidemic outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the territory of Catalonia, and in article 9.5 he talks about swimming pools with...
Ikea Rental: allows you to rent your furniture and decorative objects
This business model is called Ikea Rental . The concept, focused on 'renting' and 'leasing', allows you to rent your furniture and decorative objects for IKEA Business clients. With Ikea Rental you can rent the furniture in two modalities. In the first, the client...