Housing opens up to five million per project to industrialize housing

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda has established the regulatory bases for subsidies aimed at promoting the industrialized construction of housing, with amounts of up to five million euros per beneficiary entity and project. Order VAU/1195/2026, dated November 6, signed by Minister Isabel Rodríguez García, is published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) no. 280, dated November 10, 2026, in Section III of other provisions, with the official reference BOE-A-2026-23591. The regulation enters into force on November 11, one day after its publication.

The order develops the PERTE for the Industrialization of Housing, approved by the Council of Ministers on May 6, 2025, as a public-private collaboration framework under Chapter II of Title II of Royal Decree-Law 36/2020. The Executive justifies the measure on the grounds that industrial capacities “have not yet been fully implemented” in construction processes, which still depend on labor-intensive work and poorly mechanized procedures on-site.

The subsidies will be granted on a competitive basis, will be considered State aid, and are covered by Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 or, where applicable, the de minimis regime of Regulation (EU) 2023/2831. The call for applications will be the responsibility of the Secretary of State for Housing and Urban Agenda, while the administration will fall to the Technical Office of the PERTE for the Industrialization of Housing.

Three lines of aid with caps per project

• Line 1, innovation in processes and organization of the production of industrialized components: maximum of €5,000,000 per entity and project, reserved for SMEs and micro-enterprises (large companies are excluded) and with a minimum eligible budget of €500,000.
• Line 2, research, development, and innovation: up to €1,000,000 for industrial research projects and up to €2,000,000 for experimental development, with minimum thresholds of €250,000 and €500,000 respectively.
• Line 3, technical evaluation and validation of innovative products: up to €50,000 per project, with a minimum of €35,000 and subject to the de minimis regime.

Projects must be executed in Spanish territory and, as a general rule, in a single industrial establishment, although tests, demonstrations, and pilots in other locations are permitted when they are necessary phases of the project.

Who can apply and what are the deadlines

Beneficiaries may be commercial companies with their own legal personality, legally constituted in Spain, that can prove at least two years of activity linked to industrialized construction and have filed the annual accounts for the last two financial years. Public administrations and entities of the state, regional, or local public sector are excluded.

• Application period: as established by each call, with a maximum of two months from the day following the publication of the summary in the Official State Gazette (Boletín Oficial del Estado).
• Maximum period to resolve and notify: six months; if no express resolution is issued after this period, the application is understood to be rejected.
• Payment: a single advance payment for the full amount, with a prior guarantee deposited in the General Deposit Fund (Caja General de Depósitos) within fifteen business days.
• Subcontracting: may not exceed 90% of the amount of the subsidized activity.
• Justification: maximum of three months from the end of the execution period, via a justification account with an auditor’s report.

Scale, commission, and expenditure control

Each application will be scored from 0 to 100 points: up to 20 for the economic and financial viability of the entity (minimum threshold of 8) and up to 80 for the quality of the project (threshold of 35). In the event of a tie, preference will be given to the application submitted first, and the credit will be distributed in descending order of score until exhausted.

The evaluation will be the responsibility of a Valuation Commission chaired by the holder of the General Secretariat for Urban Agenda, Housing and Architecture, with the General Directorate for Urban Agenda and Architecture as vice-president and members from the PERTE Technical Office and the ministries of Industry and Tourism, Economy, Trade and Enterprise, and Science, Innovation and Universities.

The order further establishes that non-compliance is presumed total when the execution of the eligible budget is less than 60% of what was approved. In its final provisions, it modifies Order VAU/1186/2024, regarding the rules for the Casa de la Arquitectura awards, to adjust the required qualification and remove the publication of the award resolution in the BOE. The annex identifies activities especially linked to CNAE-2025 codes 16.29, 23.68, and 25.14 and takes the UNE 41610:2026 standard as a reference.

With these rules, developers, construction companies, and manufacturers of industrialized systems now have the legal framework to compete in future calls, which are yet to be published with their budget allocations. The stated objective is to reduce construction times and uncertainty, increase sector productivity, and expand industrialization beyond the initial phases of work.

Source: Official State Gazette, no. 280, of November 10, 2026, Sec. III. Other provisions, page 151985 (official reference: BOE-A-2026-23591).