Beware! Tourist licence warning. - Page 3

Useful information here re long lets. I agree that there's clearly a strategy to encourage long lets at the expense of tourist lets. This is part of national government policy and definitely will encourage landlords to move over to long lets as the rules for obtaining tourist lets are so difficult and fines are so punitive for non compliance.  My only point of concern regarding long lets is around tenants' rights versus landlords' rights. I haven't done much research yet and as usual with everything, rumours abound. I've been told that tenants with children can stay on indefinitely once they are in. I've also been told that 11 month leases get around this and 11 month leases have been common for that reason but I've also now heard that 11 month leases are actually illegal, so the comment above about 3 year minimum leases sounds credible to me. Another potential nightmare!  More research on my part needed, methinks. 

Thanks very much for your informative reply. I wrote the question as a tenant not as a landlord. It sounds good news to me as I have rented before but had to leave after 5 months because the landlord wanted holiday lets.

Hopefully landlords will look at it for the future as not everybody can live in Spain full time even though its a great place to be. Thanks.

Actually the landlord had no right to eject you for holiday lets! But I suppose that's history. The 11 month idea is an old myth. If you take a lease for 11 months and the landlord trys to evict you, you can go to court and resist the eviction. Since you would have made it your home, the "vivienda" rules apply and you can enforce the three years stay. He can only evict you earlier if he personally wishes to live there AND  for family reasons has nowhere else to go. The rules are overwhelmingly in favour of the tenant though this is slowly changing.

Can you advise who can apply for a tourist licence for my property and the approximate cost.Would it be a lawyer or architect?

Hi Meyer and welcome to the forum,

In the first instance, you need to check that San Fulgencio Ayuntamiento (Town Hall) would issue the Certificate of Conformity required to apply for the Tourist Licence; no need to incur the cost of a lawyer or an architect at this first stage.  If your Ayuntamiento advises that they would issue a Certificate of Conformity, then either you can apply for the Tourist Licence yourselves, or appoint a gestoría (cheaper than a lawyer) to do this on your behalf.

We have a member, Davebev1, who is very knowledgeable on this matter - search in "Spain Tips and Guides", at the top of the page, for their guide on how to apply for the Tourist Licence.

Kind regards, 

Kim

Hi

You may find this useful from page 6191 onwards  which sets out the requirements. It's in Spanish, but you can copy and translate page.

Good luck.

https://dogv.gva.es/datos/2021/02/08/pdf/2021_999.pdf

Hi

Thanks for the information so far

It seems you can either do a long term rental (potentially 5 ) years or holiday rental subject to tourist licence.Nothing in between?