- On 26 May 2026, the plenary of the Congreso de los Diputados admitted for debate the reform of the LPH to permanently legalise remote and hybrid owners’ meetings.
- This is not the final approval: the text is still in the legislative pipeline and may receive amendments. The majority was overwhelming: 306 votes in favour.
- The reform also legalises the electronic domicile and the digital minutes book with full legal certainty.
- The rule does not simply ask you to “hold a video call”: it requires verifiable quorum, accredited voting and minutes with legal traceability.
- The CGCAFE has welcomed the progress as a “historic demand” of the sector and is already working on a more ambitious modernisation of the LPH.
On 26 May 2026, the plenary of the Congreso de los Diputados admitted for debate a bill to amend the Ley de Propiedad Horizontal of 1960 and to expressly allow owners’ meetings to be held remotely or in a hybrid format. The initiative also provides for designating an electronic domicile for communications between owners and for incorporating the digital minutes book with full legal certainty.
What exactly Congress approved on 26 May
Admission for debate means the text enters the parliamentary process and the window opens to table amendments. The political message, however, is unmistakable: digitalising owners’ communities is no longer an option but a regulatory expectation.
The vote was emphatic: 306 votes in favour, with support from PP, PSOE, Vox, ERC, PNV and part of the Mixed Group. Sumar and Junts voted against; Bildu and Podemos abstained. A majority of that scale shows the text has real momentum in Parliament.
From a pandemic exception to a permanent right
During lockdown, video-conference meetings worked out of sheer necessity, without any specific legal coverage. Once the emergency passed, that practice was left in a grey area: widely accepted in the business, professional and administrative spheres, but with no clear place within horizontal property law.
That contradiction is precisely what this reform aims to resolve. The Consejo General de Colegios de Administradores de Fincas de España (CGCAFE) has welcomed the progress as a “historic demand” of the sector, and stresses that the pandemic experience already proved that remote meetings make participation easier and speed up decision-making.
Who benefits from this reform
The reform is not a legal technicality. It solves real problems that any property manager knows by heart:
- Owners with mobility difficulties, who until now had to rely on delegating their vote or being left out of decisions affecting their own assets.
- Residents in another city, region or country, an increasingly common profile among foreign owners with a home in Spain.
- The communities themselves, which gain agility in exceptional situations: from a new health emergency to a natural disaster.
In all these cases, mandatory in-person attendance was not a guarantee of good governance: it was a barrier.
The problem is not just the law. It’s the tool.
Here is the nuance many overlook. A law that allows remote meetings is of little use if the tool used to hold them turns every meeting into chaos.
Improvising with generic video-call platforms creates more problems than it solves: how do you verify the quorum when half the attendees are connected from home? How do you record a remote vote with legal validity? How do you guarantee that the minutes faithfully reflect what was agreed and are signed in accordance with the law? Who keeps the digital minutes book, and under what safeguards?
The new rule requires that the meeting has previously approved it or that it is set out in the community’s bylaws, and that the digital format of the minutes book enjoys full legal certainty. In other words: the law does not just ask you to “hold a video call”. It demands traceability, verifiable quorum, accredited voting and a record that can withstand a legal challenge.
You can read more about all this in our guide on how to convene an online owners’ meeting and in the article on remote voting in extraordinary meetings.
Why FixrOS has long been ready for this moment
At FixrOS we didn’t design a video-call module and call it a “virtual meeting”. We designed remote meetings from the ground up with the logic of the Ley de Propiedad Horizontal embedded in the product itself: real-time quorum control, legally valid voting, hybrid attendance (in person and remote) managed within a single proceeding, and generation of the minutes linked to the community’s digital book.
We have long worked under one conviction: horizontal property in Spain needs to stop being managed with 1960s tools patched together over the years. It needs an operating system of its own. This legislative reform does not surprise us; it confirms the direction in which the market and the regulator had long been pointing.
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What’s coming: the CGCAFE is aiming higher
The CGCAFE has been clear: this is only the first step. The Council itself has presented the parliamentary groups with a more ambitious draft to update the Ley de Propiedad Horizontal, with further reforms needed for communities to operate in keeping with the century we live in.
Digitalising owners’ communities has stopped being a conversation about “whether” and has become one about “when” and “how”. And once the law finishes catching up, the question for every property manager and every community will be very concrete: which tool lets me get it right the first time?
That is exactly the question FixrOS was built to answer.
Frequently asked questions about remote owners’ meetings
Are remote owners’ meetings already legal in Spain?
The reform has been going through the parliamentary process since 26 May 2026: Congress admitted it for debate, but it is not yet in force. The text may receive amendments before its final approval. The current legal situation is explained in our guide on the updated Ley de Propiedad Horizontal.
What is the difference between a remote meeting and a hybrid meeting?
In a remote meeting, all participants connect remotely. In a hybrid meeting, some owners attend in person and the rest join by video conference. The reform covers both formats.
Can any owner demand that the meeting be held remotely?
Not directly. The reform requires that the meeting has previously approved it or that it is set out in the community’s bylaws. It is not an individual right: it is a format that the community must enable collectively.
What happens to the minutes if the meeting is held remotely?
The minutes must meet the same legal requirements as any in-person minutes: quorum, agreements adopted, votes, and the signatures of the secretary and the president. The reform provides that the minutes book may be kept in digital form with full legal certainty. See our guide on owners’ meeting minutes for the current template.
Which tool should I use so that the remote meeting is legally valid?
The law does not specify a particular tool, but it does require verifying attendees’ identities, accrediting the quorum and recording votes with traceability. Generic video-call platforms are not designed for this. The FixrOS meetings module is built on the logic of the LPH from day one.