Elma Saiz
Spain's government spokesperson, who announced on 29 June 2026 that the coalition would bring a July housing royal decree-law regulating seasonal rentals.
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Who announced Spain's July 2026 crackdown on seasonal rental contracts?
Timeline for Elma Saiz
Set the original July target on 29 June
Nomads & Communities: Mentioned in: Spain rent decree stalls on party splitAnnounced the coalition's July housing royal decree-law
Nomads & Communities: Spain moves to close the temporada gapBackground
Elma Saiz is Spain's government spokesperson. On 29 June 2026 she announced that the ruling Coalition had agreed to bring a housing royal decree-law to approval in July 2026, regulating temporada (seasonal) and room rentals with a forced-extension prorroga and IRPF rebates, while raising VAT on tourist flats from 10% to 21%.
The announcement repackages the rental prorroga that Congress voted down on 28 April 2026, this time bundled with the VAT rise and the temporada-contract measures. By 8 July 2026 the decree had stalled on a fracture inside the Coalition itself: Podemos secretary-general Ione Belarra refused to accept the IRPF landlord tax deductions that Junts was demanding in exchange for its 176-vote majority. The Ministry of Consumer Affairs pushed its approval target back from July to end-August 2026, and nothing had reached Spain's Boletin Oficial del Estado by 11 July.
For nomads and other long-stay renters, Saiz's 29 June announcement remains the clearest signal that Madrid intends to close the seasonal-contract route around Spain's rent caps, but the decree's slide from a stated July target to end-August underscores how FAR its fate still rests on a Congress arithmetic Sanchez does not control.