Barcelona’s Municipal Institute of Housing and Renovation has extended the deferment of the payment of fees for families that live in houses managed through the IMHAB.
With this new measure, the bills for the months of April, May, June, July, August, and September will be deferred until October, when their issuance will return to normal. From 1 October the deferred monthly payments will start to be paid and, to make payment more manageable, the IMHAB has established a prorated payment process over the next 54 months. In other words, prorated payments will be collected between October 2020 and March 2025, or within the valid period of the rental contract or any of its extensions or within the valid period of the mortgage loan contract.
If necessary, it will be reduced to adapt to each family’s new conditions. The moratorium will be automatically applied and almost 10,000 families will benefit.
The extension of the moratorium has been published in the City Council Decree of 28 July 2020 and is one of the extraordinary measures taken by Barcelona City Council to alleviate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.