Tuesday 17/June/2025 – 11:43 AM
Advisor Dr. Hanafi Jabali, Speaker of the House of Representatives, referred, at the beginning of the plenary session today, a draft law submitted by the government regarding some provisions related to the laws of renting places and reorganizing the relationship between the lessor and the tenant, as a substitute for the previously submitted draft law from the government to the House of Representatives on 4/28/2025 regarding some provisions related to the laws of renting places to (a joint committee from the Housing and Public Facilities and Reconstruction Committee and the two offices of the Local Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committees And legislative.).
The following is reviewing the most prominent features of a draft law on some provisions related to the laws of renting places and reorganizing the relationship between the lessor and the tenant (the old rent) according to the last version submitted by the government to the House of Representatives on 6/16/2025:
• Report an appropriate transitional period before completing the old rental contracts, by (7 years) in relation to the leased places for the purpose of housing, and (5 years) for the leased places for natural persons for the purpose of the residential, and obliging the tenant to evacuate the leased place and return it to the owner with the end of the transitional period, with the text explicitly to cancel all the old lease laws after the end of this transitional period.
Details of a new draft law on old rent: a transitional period to end contracts with 7 years and create cases that allow the owner to evacuate
• Ending the old lease contracts and editing the rental relationship so that all rental contracts become subject to the provisions of the civil law in accordance with the will of both parties, after the end of the transitional period specified in the law.
• Increasing the legal rental value of the leased places for the purpose of housing in the distinguished areas by (twenty) such as the legal rental value in force and a minimum amount of (1000 pounds), and by (ten) such as the rental value of the units in the medium and economic regions and a minimum amount of (400 pounds) in medium areas, and (250 pounds) for units in economic areas.
• Increasing the legal rental value of the leased places of natural persons for the purpose of housing by (5 times) the current rental value.
• Increasing the rental value (for the leased places for the purpose of housing and for the non -purpose of housing) during the transitional period periodically annually by (15%).
• Forming an inventory committees within the scope of each governorate specializing in the division of areas with rented places for the purpose of housing subject to the provisions of this law into regions (distinguished, medium and economic) according to several criteria, including the geographical location, the level of construction and facilities related to the real estate, the road network and means of transportation, health, social and educational services available, and determining the rental value due based on this classification, provided that these committees end from Her work within (3 months) from the date of the law.
• Creating cases that allow the owner or the lessor to demand the evacuation of the leased property other than the cases mentioned in the old lease laws, if it is proven that the tenant is left or whoever extends the lease contract for the leased place is closed for a period of more than a year without justification, or if it is proven that he has a housing or non -residential unit according to the cases that can be used in the same purpose prepared for which the leased place.
• The tenants who are subject to the provisions of this law before their contracts are granted a right to allocate a housing or non -residential unit, rent or ownership, from the units available to the state, with a request submitted by the tenant or to whom the rental contract extended, accompanied by an acknowledgment of the evacuation and delivery of the rented eye immediately after the decision to allocate and receive the unit, provided that the precedence in allocation is for the first categories of care.
• Opening the state if it is announced by its residential or non -residential units, rent or ownership, during the transitional period that the priority in allocating the tenant or to the lease contract extended, as soon as it submitted a request to an attachment to the approval of the evacuation of the rented unit, provided that the priority is taken into account if the nature of the region has the region in which the rented unit.
