In order to speed up the payment of compensations based on COVID declarations concerning real estate subleases, by decision of the Governor of the Independent Public Revenue Authority Mr. Giorgos Pitsilis announced on 20.12.2021 the following are provided for:

– from on December 21, 2021 until January 10, 2022, landlords of properties, whose properties have been sublet, can submit an initial or amending “Covid Declaration” and/or amending (not initial) “Property Lease Information Statement” for the months of November 2020 through July 2021.

POMIDA expresses its thanks to the Minister of Environment and Energy Mr. Kosta Skrekas, because in response to her relevant requests, in the “SAVE 2021” Guide that he published, such a significant increase in the subsidy rates for rented houses is foreseen, from 40% to up to 65%, as well as the possibility of subsidizing homes purchased within 2021.

“>Unfortunately, no “SAVE” can alone effectively deal with the flurry of mandatory upgrade measures – in other words complete obsolescence – of buildings that will be announced on 14.12 by the European Commission, which we revealed in our letter yesterday. In view of these, we inform the owners, lessors and home buyers of the following:

The Ministry of Finance on October 18 makes a payment of a total amount of approximately 9.2m. euros, to 5,618 property owners (Unit A.F.M.) for reduced rents for the period January-June 2021. In particular, they are credited to the bank accounts:

A three-month extension of the validity of the engineer’s certificate for drawing up contracts was announced by the deputy minister of PEN, Mr.Nikos Tagaras,responding once again to the public appeals of POMIDA , of notaries but also of the technical world. In fact, he made it clear that the specific date (31.12.2021) will be strictly final and that no further extension will be given.

The government’s response to yesterday’s appeal by POMIDA, regarding the need to remove obstacles for tax-free parental benefits, was immediate. As announced, an amendment has been submitted by the Deputy Minister of the Interior Mr. Stelios Petsa to open the KEDE platform until 31.12.2021!

We expect a similar immediate positive government response from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the issue of extending the validity of the engineers’ certificate for the same period of time (31.12.2021), so that the need to issue an “electronic identity” does not inconvenience them unnecessarily citizens, and not to undermine the excellent government initiative on parental benefits. 

Particular and important were the references of the Prime Minister Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis in his speech at the opening of TIF 2021, to the following measures in favor of property owners, who bore and still bore enormous tax burdens:    

The AADE platform is open for the July declarations. Credit of a total amount of 7.5 million euros to 15,805 property owners (natural and legal persons) for reduced rents in July 2021 and to 359 beneficiaries of State Aid. On September 7, 2021, the Ministry of Finance paid a total amount of 7.5m. euros , to property owners, for reduced rents for the month of July 2021. In particular, the bank accounts of the beneficiaries of 15,805 property owners were credited with a total amount of 5.96 million euros, with which the State covers up to 80% of the rent reduction for July 2021. Of the above amount, 4.59m. euros concern 14,985 natural persons and 1.37 million euros concern 820legal entities.

According to an announcement by the Ministry of Finance on Wednesday, August 18, 2021, the online platform arogi.gov was launched .gr through which those affected by the recent catastrophic fires will be able to apply for compensation.

Especially, as stated in the announcement of Ministry of Finance:

Through the platform, households, businesses and property owners affected by the fires that occurred in areas of the Greek Territory from July 27, 2021 and until August 13, 2021, they can submit an application, in order to be granted an extraordinary one-off financial aid, as first aid from the Ministry Finance.

The waste bill included the amendment extending until 30.9.2021 the validity of the engineer’s certificates, whose autopsy had been carried out until 31/01/2021, the which was already submitted for processing to the competent parliamentary committee on Thursday, July 15, 2021.

Specifically in Chapter VII of s.n. “para. 5 of the eighteenth article of n. 4787/2021 (A’ 44) is amended in terms of the period of validity of the certificates of par. 1 of article 83 of n. 4495/2017 (A’ 167) and is formulated as follows: “5. The period of validity of the certificates of par. 1 of article 83 of n. 4495/2017 (A` 167) with an autopsy date from 1.1.2021 to 31.1.2021 is extended until 30.9.2021, with the possibility of being subject to regulation after 1 February 2021, without the obligation to register building/divided property identification information.” .