PERTE de la Industrialización de la Vivienda

The PERTE de la Industrialización de la Vivienda (Proyecto Estratégico para la Recuperación y Transformación Económica de la Industrialización de la Vivienda) is Spain's industrial-policy programme for scaling modular and off-site residential construction. PERTEs are Spain's equivalent of EU Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs) — state-aid-exempt programmes where public co-investment de-risks private industrial transformation.

The housing PERTE was approved under the Plan Estatal de Vivienda 2026-2030 framework. €1,300 million of the plan's total €7,000 million budget is channelled through this programme, aimed at developing and scaling Spanish manufacturing capacity for factory-built residential units. The political rationale is to bypass chronic land-supply and construction-Labour constraints: building in a factory removes the site-based bottlenecks that limit traditional housebuilding output. Spain's construction sector employs an ageing workforce, and modular construction offers a route to higher productivity with fewer workers.

The PERTE sits within the DG GROW (European Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) policy framework that has been pushing industrialised construction across EU member states. For nomads and renters, the PERTE's impact is entirely medium-term: no units will complete under this programme before 2028 at the earliest.