Applicants have ten days left to seek one of 401 affordable rental homes offered by state housing body Casa 47 across 23 municipalities in the Valencian Community. The online form remains open until 10 September, covering 157 properties in Castellón province, 153 in Alicante and 91 in Valencia. There is no waiting list and homes are not allocated on a first-come basis: every valid application will enter a lottery supervised by a notary.
The date matters because some early municipal notices and reports gave 15 September as the deadline. Casa 47 corrected that information, and both its announcement and the application portal now state Wednesday 10 September. Individual listings allow applicants to select specific properties and show photographs, location, floor area, monthly rent and the qualifying annual household-income range.
Castellón holds the largest share
Castellón province has 157 homes: 40 in Xilxes, 24 in Benicarló, 23 in Vila-real, 18 each in Castelló de la Plana and Peñíscola, 12 in Borriana, 10 in Sant Joan de Moró, seven in Moncofa and five in Sant Jordi. Alicante’s 153 are spread across Pedreguer, with 66; Dénia, 46; Monóvar, 18; Orihuela, 13; and Elche and Novelda, with five each.
Valencia province’s 91 homes comprise 37 in Carlet, 19 in Turís, nine in Benaguasil, seven each in La Pobla de Farnals and San Antonio de Benagéber, six in Albuixech, four in Manises and two in Oliva. Across the Valencian call, homes range from 30 to 160 square metres, with advertised rents from €350 to €1,066 a month depending on the property and municipality.
That broad range is not enough to determine eligibility. Each listing calculates the annual household income needed for that particular rent. Casa 47 requires, among other conditions, Spanish nationality or legal residence in Spain, no ownership interest in another home among future occupants —including bare ownership, usufruct or surface rights— and a suitable number of bedrooms for the household. Applicants do not need to be registered as residents in the chosen municipality, but any allocated property must become their main and permanent home.
Preference order matters more than filing early
As a general rule, applicants’ combined income must fall between two and 7.5 times Spain’s IPREM public-income benchmark. The rent of the selected property must also represent between 15% and 30% of the occupants’ combined net monthly income. This is why the portal displays a different qualifying range for each home: a household may meet the overall threshold but not the affordability test for a specific property.
The lottery will draw one application number and use it to order all candidates. Casa 47 will then allocate the first still-available home on each household’s ranked list. Filing on the opening day offers no advantage, but ordering preferences carelessly can change the outcome. After the requirements are checked, allocation will be provisional and selected applicants may view the property before accepting it and signing.
Contracts start with a 14-year term and allow seven-year extensions while conditions continue to be met, up to a maximum of 75 years. The next verifiable milestone will come after applications close, when Casa 47 publishes the lottery result and begins checking supporting evidence. Until then, the active call on the official portal is the only route into these 401 homes; an enquiry or registration for another development does not replace this application.