The owners of empty houses must pay a rent of 10 euros per square meter per year, with an increase of 10% in the coming years.
The Gipuzkoan Town of Azpeitia becomes the first city of Euskadi to apply a fee for empty houses, as announced by the municipal council of the municipality.
The mayor of Azpeitia, Nagore Alkorta, councilor Joanes Amenabar and the technical manager of Azpeitia Berritu, Iñaki Zabaleta, have indicated that from next week the owners of empty houses will be sent next week, starting with the latest real estate and elevator, a Letter who informs them about this measure included in a municipal plan to increase the rent of the municipal council. to post them for rent. Those who decide to keep their houses empty will have to pay a rent of 10 euros per square meter per year, with an increase of 10% in the coming years.
As Alkorta detailed, the plan focuses on “the social function” of houses and recalled that the 2015 Basque Country housing law establishes that if a house is uninhabited for two consecutive years, and provided that no justified causes are determined by law, not to be fulfilled, not fulfilled Social function, municipalities can initiate the declaration of uninhabited homes.
On the other hand, he clarified that the city council generally recommended allocating empty houses to the Bizilagun program because “in addition to promoting social rental, it allows owners to rent the house safely.”
Source: EITB
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