Editorial: El País

• The Ministry of Housing published the national price reference system for the rental market to regulate rentals in tense zones.
• This index will be mandatory for large holders and for flats that enter the market or have not been rented for five years.
• Communities governed by the Popular Party announced they will not apply this new system considering it as a market control.
• Only Catalonia has begun the procedures to declare a tense zone.
• There is no consensus on the results of establishing rental price caps, but it may favor access to housing.
• This measure does not eliminate the need to develop others, such as expanding the public housing park for rent and additional measures.

Conclusion: The new rental price index was presented as a tool to regulate a tense market and favor access to housing, but its results are uncertain and not all autonomous communities accept it.

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