Four news items on the new tourism law
The Balearic Islands, one of Spain's major tourist destinations, has just passed the tourist rental law that will apply new restrictions to holiday homes. Among other aspects, it prohibits the use of vacation rentals in multi-family buildings. The local councils will be able to restrict or even prohibit tourist rentals in their municipalities, a real ceiling is established for the number of vacancies on the islands (as is already the case with hotels) and neighbors will be allowed to veto holiday homes in their buildings.
The voices of those who are part of the tourist rental sector, consider it to be a "belligerent legislation against renting. It makes no sense that you have to ask permission from the neighbors to decide what to do with your own home" For the moment, in the islands a moratorium of one year has been established to give new licenses so that the municipalities and the island councils can decide in which areas holiday homes can be offered and in which not. What else has happened since the new law on holiday rentals was passed?
Local institutions of the Balearic Islands may prohibit renting apartments to tourists. This Tuesday will enter into force the vacation rental law of the Balearic Islands, approved last July 18 with contradictions due to disputes between the left-wing partners, who have now agreed to save them with a decree that the Balearic Government will approve in the following days. The controversy focuses on the rental of housing in multi-family buildings, a modality that the law leaves in the hands of the councils and Palma because they have the powers of urban planning. Continue reading.
The tourist rental law will not be modified until September. Once it enters into force, the moratorium will start, which establishes a 12-month term for the councils to draw up the zoning. It may be drawn up taking into account all building typologies, whether they are single-family or multi-family dwellings. As the law is currently drafted, the Consells will also be able to decide what kind of rental typology they want. Continue reading.
This is how the new law approved yesterday will allow renting housing to tourists. It will not be possible to register any new bed if it is not previously formalized, without exceptions, the cancellation of another one. After the reform, the only people who can rent their property to tourists are those who already have a tourist license. In addition, a moratorium will enter into force that will prevent the registration of new dwellings for a period of up to one year. For their part, detached houses and semi-detached houses that have not been registered for tourism will have to wait for the councils to decide. Continue reading.
A puzzle of laws to curb the tourist apartment boom. Each autonomous community has its own legislation to regulate the rental of tourist homes. 17 laws for 17 regions, in addition to the rules of the municipalities, for a phenomenon that continues to grow. "The new law of the Balearic Islands is the most belligerent," denounces the Spanish Federation of Associations of Tourist Homes and Apartments (FEVITUR). From the associations of homeowners for tourist rental, and also from the online platforms that market their offer, they criticize the atomization of the legislation throughout the State without a common criterion and complain that the new legislation, in most cases only seek to restrict the new offer or directly make the rent unfeasible. Continue reading.
