The land owned by the Ministry of Defense that will be used, as Pedro Sánchez has promised, for the construction of up to 20,000 homes that will be used for social rent, will not simply be ceded. They must be paid with public money and the appraisal to decide the amount is decided by a group of independent experts according to the value set by the market.
This is what the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, admits, thus confirming that until the Council of Ministers approves the commercial operation, the land will not be available to be offered by SEPES to the local authorities where they are located. located to initiate real estate developments in them.
The law prevents the land assigned to the Ministry from being ceded, even when it is no longer useful for national defense. In order to give them a use other than that for which they are intended, they must be sold and the Ministry of Defense receive the corresponding consideration.
Robles claims to have carried out an intense negotiation with the Public Land Business Entity, an organization attached to the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, to reach an agreement on the global price of all the land. The appraisal at market price has been different for each lot because the value of one and the other differs considerably, not only because of its size, but mainly because of its location. The Council of Ministers will have to authorize the sale and its joint price.
Sources from the Ministry of Defense explain that it is an operation that entails a “very complicated” administrative procedure, but they limit their actions to conversations and agreements with SEPES. Subsequently, the Entity will carry out the appropriate negotiations with the autonomous communities and town halls in which the land is located either to sell it to them or to exchange it, prior agreement, for other land.
In short, only municipalities or communities in whose territory there is land owned by the Ministry of Defense will have this land and, moreover, are in a position to buy it. They will therefore be land that, before being used for the construction of public housing, will have to go through two purchase and sale operations.
The Minister of Defense assures that for her Ministry it is a “good operation” since it is about selling land that is no longer necessary but that must be maintained, originating expenses that are assumed by the department’s budget. The money obtained from the sale to SEPES will be used in the modernization plans that the Ministry has underway.
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