The minimum wage that employers may pay their employees. The Spanish government revises this wage each year, following discussions with the country's most representative business associations and unions, and on the basis of the rise in the cost of living (the retail price index, which is called the IPC in Catalonia), the national average in terms of levels of productivity, the proportion of the national income represented by work and the general economic situation.
Obligations applicable to a property, such as allowing the passage of a pipe through its cellar, electricity cables, inherited financial encumbrances, etc.
A situation that involves more people living in a home than its Cèdula d'habitabilitat / Certificate of habitability permits. Such situations are illegal and are a health risk.
The act of renting out part of a home where you are a tenant (renting out rooms, for example). It is illegal to rent out just a single room. The amount paid by a person to whom part of a home is sublet should never be more than the main rental fee. Subletting arrangements must be authorised by the lessor.
A home's water, electricity and gas. If a home's supplies have not been activated, you will need its Cèdula d'habitabilitat / Certificate of habitability.
The transfer of rights under a rental contract to children, brothers or sisters, parents, grandparents, a spouse or a partner, provided that they have lived with the contract holder for the 2 previous years.