With the year about to end, there are many housing tenants who wonder how much their landlord will be able to raise their rent next 2025. The Ministry of Housing clarifies that the rent “It is not subject to annual update unless expressly agreed between the parties.” This means that If the rental contract does not state that the amount can be updated, they will not be able to increase the price.
For this same reason, the first thing to do will be to review the lease contract, since in most cases they do include some reference to updating the rent.
Once it has been verified and the contract reflects that the rental income may be updated, from the approval of Royal Decree-Law 7/2019 on urgent measures regarding housing and rental, said toThe update will be limited to the variation of the CPI for that period.
How much can the landlord raise the rent in 2025
He Article 18 of the urban leasing law is what regulates possible rent increases for tenants.. This first establishes the moment in which the landlord can raise the rent, which will be “on the date on which each year of validity of the contract expires.”
For example, if the contract was signed in May, the landlord cannot raise the rent in January, he will have to wait for the landlord to pay the annuity in May.
Another key point when applying the rental price increase is that The parties can agree on the terms of the update, and if this has not been done, the income will be updated according to the annual variation of the Competitiveness Guarantee Index.
In any case, as the ministry recalls, and as established by the Law, the increase In no case may it exceed the variation of the CPI.
As of today It is not yet known what the value of said index will be for 2025. Therefore, we will have to wait for the National Institute of Statistics (INE) to publish its value to know how much landlords will be able to raise the rent next year at most.
Can the landlord raise the rent in 2025 if he has not done so in 2024?
In the event that the rental contract provides for rent updates, If the landlord has not increased the rental price in 2024, he may do so in 2025 by updating the rent for the two years.
It is important to note that the increase in rental prices in the year 2024 is not conditioned to the CPI, but rather the Housing Law set it at a maximum of 3%.
This means that the rent could increase, as long as the landlord notifies it, by 3% plus the part that corresponds to the 2025 update index.