Renovation money in the Valencian Community: both grants are shut, and one deadline is seven weeks away

If a builder or a reforma company has told you there is grant money waiting for your bathroom, check the date on whatever they showed you.

On 13 November 2026 the two main renovation schemes in this region are closed to new applications. Not reduced, not oversubscribed. Closed.

What is open is a tax deduction, worth more than either grant for most people, and for individual homes the works have to be finished by 31 December 2026. That is the thing to act on.

Where the money actually stands today

We checked both schemes on the Generalitat’s own pages this morning rather than on an aggregator.

Plan Renhata, the interior scheme. The last application window ran from 12 November 2025 to 12 January 2026. It is marked closed. Nothing has replaced it.

The building level energy rehabilitation grants, the Next Generation line under the recovery plan, ran from 23 January 2025 to 27 February 2026. The Generalitat’s electronic office lists the application phase as closed.

Those two are the ones people mean when they talk about renovation subsidies here. Both gone, for now.

A new Renhata cycle has been trailed for the coming years, with money set aside, but no call has been published. Until it appears in the DOGV, it does not exist in any way you can apply to.

What is still open: the tax deduction

This is the part most people on this coast do not use, and it is usually worth more than the grant they were hoping for.

It is an income tax deduction, not a payment. You pay for the work, then you take a percentage off your Spanish income tax. No queue, no scoring, no budget line that runs out.

20 per cent if the works cut the heating and cooling demand by at least 7 per cent. Annual base capped at 5,000 euros.

40 per cent if they cut non renewable primary energy consumption by at least 30 per cent, or get the home to an A or B rating. Annual base capped at 7,500 euros.

60 per cent for collective works on a residential building, with an annual base of 5,000 euros and a cumulative cap of 15,000 euros. This is the community of owners route, and it is the biggest number on this page.

Note one discrepancy. Sources differ on the base cap for the 20 per cent band, with some giving 7,500 rather than 5,000. Have your gestor confirm the figure against the current rules before you plan around it.

The deadlines that make this urgent

The extension granted last year did not extend everything by the same amount, and the gap matters.

Individual homes: works done by 31 December 2026. Seven weeks from today, including Christmas, in a country where December is not a productive building month.

Whole residential buildings: 31 December 2027. A year longer, which is realistic, because getting a community of owners to agree on anything takes most of one.

And the certificate has its own deadline. The energy performance certificate issued after the works has to be dated before 1 January 2027 for a home, or before 1 January 2028 for a whole building. Finishing the work in time and getting the certificate late is the same as missing the deadline.

You need the before certificate too. The improvement is proved by comparing an energy certificate from before the works with one from after. If you have already started without the first one, you have a problem no builder can fix.

Do not count on another extension. This deadline has moved before, which is exactly why people assume it will move again.

Plan Renhata, for when it comes back

Worth understanding now, because the window is short when it opens and the paperwork is not.

What it covers. Wet rooms, meaning bathrooms and kitchens, brought up to current habitability standards; adapting a home for disability or reduced mobility, including widening circulation space, changing doors and fitting acoustic or light signals; and home automation that improves accessibility and independence.

Who can apply. Any individual who owns, has usufruct of, or rents a home in the Valencian Community that is their habitual and permanent residence.

The twenty year rule. The building has to be more than twenty years old at the time of applying. That requirement is waived for adaptation works for people registered with a disability of more than 33 per cent, or for people over sixty.

The padrón again. Habitual residence is proved by being registered on the padrón before you apply. If you are not registered, you are not eligible, and you cannot fix that retroactively.

The budget range. The protected budget cannot be under 2,000 euros or over 12,000, whatever the real cost of the works. Your 40,000 euro kitchen is assessed on 12,000 of it.

Works can already be done. Either finished when you apply, or within six months of the award being published in the DOGV. That is unusually relaxed and worth knowing.

What Renhata actually pays

The headline figure in the adverts is not the figure most people get.

The basic grant is 5 per cent of the protected budget, up to 600 euros. Everyone who qualifies and files complete paperwork gets this.

A first additional grant is scored. One to five points gets 25 per cent up to 3,000 euros; six to ten points gets 30 per cent up to 3,600; eleven to fifteen points gets 35 per cent up to 4,200.

A second additional grant rewards sustainability. Three to six points gets 5 per cent up to 600 euros; seven to ten points gets 10 per cent up to 1,200.

The catch is in the small print. The two additional grants only go to applications that, once ranked by score, exhaust the budget line after the basic grants have been paid out. If the money runs out at your position in the queue, you get the 600 euros and nothing else.

So the honest range is 600 euros to 6,000 euros, and the low end is far more common than the high one.

What to do in the next seven weeks

Concrete, in order.

If you were going to insulate, glaze or change the heating anyway, get an energy certificate done before anything starts. It is cheap, it takes days, and without it the deduction is unreachable.

Be realistic about finishing by 31 December. If a contractor cannot start until January, the individual home deduction is gone and you should plan around the building route or wait for the next cycle instead of rushing bad work.

If you are in a community of owners, this is the moment to put it on the agenda. You have until the end of 2027, the percentage is 60, and the cumulative cap is 15,000 euros. That is the best deal available here and almost nobody uses it.

Get on the padrón if you are not. It gates Renhata and a great deal else, and it is free.

Watch the DOGV, not the adverts. New calls appear there first. A reforma company’s landing page about grant money is a sales page, and in November 2026 it is describing a window that shut in January.

And talk to a gestor before you commit. Whether a grant you receive can also sit inside the deduction base is exactly the kind of question that costs money to get wrong, and it is not one to settle from an article.

Frequently asked questions about renovation grants here

Can I apply for Plan Renhata right now? No. The last window closed on 12 January 2026 and no new call has been published.

Can I apply for the Next Generation building grants? No. Applications closed on 27 February 2026. If you already applied, the phases for correcting and justifying documents run until 30 September 2028.

What is still available? The income tax deduction for energy efficiency works, at 20, 40 or 60 per cent depending on what the works achieve.

When does that end? Works on an individual home must be done by 31 December 2026, and on a whole residential building by 31 December 2027.

Do I need an energy certificate? Yes, one before and one after, and the one after has its own deadline.

How much does Renhata pay? Between 600 and 6,000 euros, with the bottom of that range far more likely.

Is renting a problem? Not for Renhata. Tenants of a habitual residence can apply.

Where do I check? The Generalitat’s electronic office and the DOGV. More on living here is in life and work and property.

This is reporting, not tax or legal advice. Figures were checked against official sources on 13 November 2026 and the rules change.

About the authorMilo Schuijt

Milo Schuijt is an entrepreneur and DJ on the Costa Blanca. He writes about the places where he lives, works and plays: from beach bars to the housing market.