Ley 2/2026
Madrid's supply-side housing law, easing density and parking rules on protected rental land.
Madrid's Ley 2/2026, gazetted 28 July 2026, eases density and parking rules on protected rental land as a supply-side answer, since Madrid lacks Navarra's civil-law power over room rentals.
Last refreshed: 28 July 2026
Why is Madrid loosening building rules instead of regulating rents directly?
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Navarra writes the rule Madrid could not
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Ley 2/2026 is the Comunidad de Madrid's housing law, passed on 11 June 2026 and gazetted in the BOE on 28 July 2026. It eases density and parking rules on land zoned for protected rental housing, most of its measures sunsetting after two or three years .
It is Madrid's answer to the same rental-supply pressure behind Navarra's Ley Foral 11/2026, but from the supply side: Madrid, unlike Navarra, has no foral civil-law competence to legislate lease terms directly, so it works through planning and density instead.
Developers see the law as a rare deregulatory opening in a tightening national rental market, while Spain's national government has pointed to it as evidence regional measures are filling a gap Left by the stalled national housing decree.
Madrid answers rental pressure with supply
Ley 2/2026, passed by the Comunidad de Madrid on 11 June 2026 and gazetted in the BOE on 28 July, allows protected rental housing on tertiary-use land, with up to 20 per cent extra building capacity and 30 per cent extra density without replanning, and cuts parking requirements to one space per unit. Most of its measures sunset after two or three years .
For Ley 2/2026, the timing is the story: it landed the same day Navarra gazetted its own room-rental law and Spain's national housing decree stalled at the Council of Ministers. Lacking Navarra's foral civil-law competence, Madrid can only act on supply, not on lease terms directly.