It opens after 12.30 this afternoon the platform through gov.gr for the program “Renovate – Rent” which will motivate thousands of owners to open their closed houses, the Minister of Social Cohesion and Family Sofia Zaharakis emphasized to SKAI 100.3.

Those who apply and join the program they will receive a subsidy of up to 4,000 euros to renovate a residence of up to 100 m2, which has been closed for at least three years and which they will then rent.
He also clarified that the renovation should be functional and explained that in 4 to 5 minutes the interested party who enters the platform will receive an answer and in a maximum of 15 days he will have received an advance payment of 2,000 euros cto start work.

He then posts the e-invoices and then has to rent his house for 3 years.

The minister noted that the criteria for participation in the program include that the beneficiaries have an annual family taxable income, real or assumed which does not exceed 40,000 euros etcthey have immovable property, the total value of which does not exceed 300,000 euros.

Also, the property should not have been declared as a first residence.

The minister explained that the fund amounts to 50 million euros and estimated that it will reach 12,500 properties.

Finally, he emphasized that it has a double objective to increase the available apartments but also to have an impact on rental prices.