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
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Nomads & Communities: Spain moves to close the temporada gapWho is Elma Saiz?
What did Elma Saiz announce about Spanish housing policy?
When did Elma Saiz announce Spain's housing decree?
Background
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.