Towards the implementation of the registry of rent defaulters ten years after Law 4/2013, of June 4

Abstract

Reflections on the need to implement the registry of rent defaulters that was approved in the reform of the LAU by Law 4/2013, of June 4, on measures to make the rental market more flexible and promote housing, in which article third, the creation of a Public Registry of Defaulting Tenants was established, and, for this, the publication of a royal decree that would regulate the organization and operation of said registry so that when an owner of a property was in a position to lease it to a third party, he could have a system of «acknowledgment» about the evidence of the possible history of non-payment of rents of the applicant to occupy the property. This avoids subsequent inconveniences about the need to go to a new legal proceeding against the same tenant who was already a debtor to other landlords by forcing them to also go to court to recover possession. The existence of other previous registries with similar data control objectives supports the possibility of establishing this registry.