guarantees for landlords provide

Other proposed measures include a 100% tax on real-estate purchases for buyers from non-EU countries, higher taxes on Airbnb-style holiday rentals, a programme to refurbish vacant housing and public guarantees for landlords who provide ‘affordable’ rentals. ‘In 2023 alone, non-residents from outside the EU bought 27,000 houses and flats’, said Sánchez. ‘Not to live in them, but mainly to speculate. Something that, in the context of the shortages we are experiencing, we cannot afford.’ The 27,000 purchases account for a miniscule 0.1% of the total 27 million homes. The Bank of Spain says 1.5 million social rental dwellings are needed to bring the country up to the EU average (7% of the housing stock). Providing them will be a Herculean task. It will also require much closer cooperation between the central, regional and municipal governments สล็อต