Government spokesperson Elma Saiz said on 29 June 2026 that Spain's coalition has agreed to bring a housing royal decree-law, an emergency instrument that bypasses the full parliamentary process, to approval in July 2026.1 The text would redraw the rental contract that most long-stay nomads sign.
Temporada (seasonal) contracts, the 9-to-11-month lets remote workers use, currently fall outside the rent caps in the Ley de Vivienda (Spain's Housing Law) that apply in zonas tensionadas (designated stressed-rent zones). The decree would demand written contracts and a tighter legal test of what counts as genuinely temporary. It separately raises VAT (value-added tax) on tourist flats from 10% to 21% and offers IRPF (personal income tax) rebates to landlords who cut rents.
This repackages the rental prorroga (a forced contract extension) that Congress rejected on 28 April, now bundled with the VAT and seasonal-rental measures. As of 1 July 2026 the decree is unapproved and depends on a fragmented Congress that has already defeated the extension once.
INE (Spain's national statistics office) recorded 341,001 tourist-housing units in May 2026, a 3.4% rebound from the 329,764 post-ruling low, so supply is climbing even as the state moves to close routes.2 Hosts are relisting after the Tribunal Supremo (Spain's Supreme Court) voided the national registration number, the baseline the decree is designed to reverse.
