There is increasing confusion about what can and cannot be done with rental housing. Tenants and owners are lost in this market in which misinformation and roguery intermingle.

The Ministry of Housing presented, on February 27, the state price reference system, which sets limits on rent in Spain. The new price index will be applied on March 13 in 140 municipalities in Catalonia. In the rest of Spain it does not currently apply, since it is the autonomous communities that must declare the stressed areas and no one else has done so.