Ley Foral 11/2026
Navarra's regional law regulating room rentals, creating habitual-residence, seasonal and hospitality-style categories and a rental registry.
Navarra's room-rental law, passed 2 July 2026 and gazetted 28 July, creating three tenancy tiers and a mandatory registry, resting on foral civil-law competence that predates, and is unconnected to, May's short-let registration ruling.
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Passed by Navarra's Parliament on 2 July 2026 and gazetted in the BOE on 28 July, Ley Foral 11/2026 sets three room-let categories. A habitual-residence let carries full tenancy protection: minimum duration, rent ceiling, deposit rules and succession rights. A seasonal room, let for a touristic, recreational or other leisure purpose, carries only minimal protection, and a third, hospitality-style category bundles the room with services.
Any contract running beyond twelve months converts automatically into a permanent tenancy, and every let, of whichever category, must be logged on a new regional registry. The reform ends the free-contract arrangement that had applied to Navarrese room lets since the Fuero Nuevo was recast in 2019, articles 587 to 596 of the region's civil code.
Its legal footing comes from the pre-1978 civil-law competence that sets Navarra apart, a power entirely separate from the Tribunal Supremo's May 2026 short-let registration ruling, which reached all seventeen regions rather than only the six, Navarra included, that still hold their own civil law.
Ley Foral 11/2026 creates rental categories
Ley Foral 11/2026, passed by Navarra's Parliament on 2 July and gazetted in the BOE on 28 July, ends the free-contract regime that had governed room lets since 2019, replacing it with three tiers: full protection for habitual residence, minimal protection for seasonal or leisure lets, and a hospitality-style category bundled with services.
Registration on the new regional rental registry becomes compulsory for every contract, and any temporary let stretching beyond twelve months converts automatically into a permanent tenancy. Authority for the law sits in Navarra's own Fuero Nuevo, a foral civil-law power that predates, and has no bearing on, May's Tribunal Supremo ruling on short-let registration.
