Spain's Congress Repealed Housing Decree-Laws 26/2026 and 27/2026 on 2 October
Spain's Congress voted on 2 October 2026 to repeal both housing decree-laws, and the state gazette published the agreements the same day, so the new rent rules lapse. deputies voted against decree-law 26/2026, by press count.
The facts
- Congress held an extraordinary plenary session on 2 October 2026 whose single item was the validation or repeal of decree-laws, covering files 130/000055 and 130/000056.
- Decree-law 26/2026, on the social function of housing and the expansion of affordable supply, was not validated. Press accounts of the session report 172 votes in favour and 178 against.
- Decree-law 27/2026, on the stability of contracts for renting a habitual residence, was repealed in the same session.
- The Boletin Oficial del Estado published both repeal agreements in issue 245 of 2 October 2026, signed by the President of Congress.
- Both decree-laws carried the date 29 September 2026.
What it means for your money
- The rent rules introduced days earlier no longer apply. Landlords and tenants fall back on the terms that were in force before.
- For tenants the contract-stability protections are gone; for landlords the affordable-supply obligations go with them. The repeal removed both sides of the package at once.
- Glopra's Spain entry shows a national asking rent of 17.5 US dollars per square metre a month, a portal figure for August 2026, which is to say from before the decrees existed and under the rule set that applies again now.
- The repeal agreements published in the gazette set out the repeal itself. They say nothing about leases signed during the four days the decrees were in force.
What to watch
- The vote figures here come from press accounts of the session. The gazette items publish the repeal agreements without tallies.
- Whether the government brings the same measures back as an ordinary bill, which would restart the parliamentary clock.
- How leases agreed between 29 September and 2 October 2026 are treated.
Sources: Boletin Oficial del Estado, Resolucion de 2 de octubre de 2026, derogacion del Real Decreto-ley 26/2026, BOE num. 245, 2 October 2026 https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2026-20526; Boletin Oficial del Estado, derogacion del Real Decreto-ley 27/2026, BOE num. 245, 2 October 2026 https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2026/10/02/pdfs/BOE-A-2026-20527.pdf; The Objective, El BOE publica la derogacion de los decretos de vivienda, 2 October 2026 https://theobjective.com/espana/politica/2026-10-02/boe-publicacion-derogacion-decretos-vivienda/