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Alicante tourist rental license

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 9:29pm
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Dear all

Recently I read in the Euro paper that Alicante have joined two other major cities to impose a 3 years ban on short term rentals 

My question is does this apply to all Alicante regions such as Benidorm, Calpe, and so on?

As the article in the Euro paper was not very clear, any advice would be much 

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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 9:38pm

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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 9:38pm

Published on 6 January 2025, Alicante City Council has imposed a two-year ban on new licences for short-term holiday rentals in order to address concerns over mass tourism and local available housing supply.

The moratorium in the city comes into force with immediate effect.

Other cities with similar bans  include  MadridBarcelonaSevilleMalaga and Valencia.

The ban only applies to the cities.

https://shorttermrentalz.com/news/alicante-two-year-ban-holiday-rentals/#:~:text=Spain%3A%20Alicante%20City%20Council%20has,into%20force%20with%20immediate%20effect.

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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 9:53pm

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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 9:53pm

John123456 wrote on Fri Jan 24, 2025 9:38pm:

Published on 6 January 2025, Alicante City Council has imposed a two-year ban on new licences for short-term holiday rentals in order to address concerns over mass tourism and local available housing supply.

The moratorium in the city comes into force with immediate effect.

Thx John

Very helpful 

Cheers 

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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2025 8:16pm

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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2025 8:16pm

Ince July 2018 part of the License application process has involved obtaining a Certificate of Compatibility from the Town Hall (effectively their agreement for the application to go ahead). So every Town Hall in Valencia region has been able to stop new Licenses being issued in their Municipality whenever they have wished to do so since July 2018. In fact San Fulgencio (covers La Marina urb) had a complete ban for several years, only lifting it about 18 months ago. Algorfa have had a ban for six and half years. Town Halls can also restrict areas within the municipality or the types of properties permitted to obtain a Tourist License. The current ban in these three cities is because they have agreed to too many Licenses in recent years, but they are dressing up as too many foreigners buying holiday rentals rather than admitting they were to blame.

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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 1:30pm

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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 1:30pm

Davebev1 wrote on Sat Jan 25, 2025 8:16pm:

Ince July 2018 part of the License application process has involved obtaining a Certificate of Compatibility from the Town Hall (effectively their agreement for the application to go ahead). So every Town Hall in Valencia region has been able to stop new Licenses being issued in their Municipalit...

...y whenever they have wished to do so since July 2018. In fact San Fulgencio (covers La Marina urb) had a complete ban for several years, only lifting it about 18 months ago. Algorfa have had a ban for six and half years. Town Halls can also restrict areas within the municipality or the types of properties permitted to obtain a Tourist License. The current ban in these three cities is because they have agreed to too many Licenses in recent years, but they are dressing up as too many foreigners buying holiday rentals rather than admitting they were to blame.

Thx 

Very helpful and informative 

Cheers 

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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 1:33pm

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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 1:33pm

Davebev1 wrote on Sat Jan 25, 2025 8:16pm:

Ince July 2018 part of the License application process has involved obtaining a Certificate of Compatibility from the Town Hall (effectively their agreement for the application to go ahead). So every Town Hall in Valencia region has been able to stop new Licenses being issued in their Municipalit...

...y whenever they have wished to do so since July 2018. In fact San Fulgencio (covers La Marina urb) had a complete ban for several years, only lifting it about 18 months ago. Algorfa have had a ban for six and half years. Town Halls can also restrict areas within the municipality or the types of properties permitted to obtain a Tourist License. The current ban in these three cities is because they have agreed to too many Licenses in recent years, but they are dressing up as too many foreigners buying holiday rentals rather than admitting they were to blame.

But we have received sales notification from a company building apartments in centre of Benidorm that their apartments come with tourists license!! Which given the current noises around banning such licences was strange 

And we did not know whether this is correct or there is some hidden conditions attached 

Just thought to let you know

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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 2:03pm

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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 2:03pm

alavib wrote on Sun Jan 26, 2025 1:33pm:

But we have received sales notification from a company building apartments in centre of Benidorm that their apartments come with tourists license!! Which given the current noises around banning such licences was strange 

And we did not know whether this is correct or there is some hidden conditions attached ...

...

Just thought to let you know

Cheers 

No idea how they are working this now, maybe an aparthotel complex, which are different as the owners are tied to the management company who own the License. 

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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 6:27pm

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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 6:27pm

John123456 wrote on Fri Jan 24, 2025 9:38pm:

Published on 6 January 2025, Alicante City Council has imposed a two-year ban on new licences for short-term holiday rentals in order to address concerns over mass tourism and local available housing supply.

The moratorium in the city comes into force with immediate effect.

Would make more sense if Spain applied a tourist accommodation tax to the main tourist destinations e.g. 3/5 percent this would bring in hundreds of millions of Euros that could be used for affordable housing.

Tourist tax is common in many counties.

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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 7:12pm

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Alba5 wrote on Sun Jan 26, 2025 6:27pm:

Would make more sense if Spain applied a tourist accommodation tax to the main tourist destinations e.g. 3/5 percent this would bring in hundreds of millions of Euros that could be used for affordable housing.

Tourist tax is common in many counties.

Hotels and other services were up in arms about that. Valencia government under PSOE introduced one for all tourist accommodation including hotels, campsites, private rentals, hostels and even ship passengers visiting for the day.

One of the first things PP did when voted in was to get rid of it before it was even implemented.

Some areas in the Balearics charge a tourist tax, many places in Italy charge it and hoteliers actually hate it and apologise for having to stick it on your bill. 

This is not about making money, it's about making housing available and keeping rents down so locals can actually afford it after being driven out of the main cities due to not being able to afford the rents. Barcelona has seen rents reduce by 4 to 6 percent since introducing similar legislation in quite a short time. OK, the locals probably couldn't afford the high cost of housing but as Spain is traditionally a rental economy then this is designed to help them. A tourist tax, which even the Spanish have to pay, would simply put rentals up.

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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 8:48pm

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Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 8:48pm

marcliff wrote on Sun Jan 26, 2025 7:12pm:

Hotels and other services were up in arms about that. Valencia government under PSOE introduced one for all tourist accommodation including hotels, campsites, private rentals, hostels and even ship passengers visiting for the day.

One of the first things PP did when voted in was to get rid of it before it was even implemented....

...

Some areas in the Balearics charge a tourist tax, many places in Italy charge it and hoteliers actually hate it and apologise for having to stick it on your bill. 

This is not about making money, it's about making housing available and keeping rents down so locals can actually afford it after being driven out of the main cities due to not being able to afford the rents. Barcelona has seen rents reduce by 4 to 6 percent since introducing similar legislation in quite a short time. OK, the locals probably couldn't afford the high cost of housing but as Spain is traditionally a rental economy then this is designed to help them. A tourist tax, which even the Spanish have to pay, would simply put rentals up.

Good point, however the locals housing issues will not be solved by such tourist tax, as the money raised will simply used for other things except building more affordable homes

spain as a country do not have a robust housing policy, the government doesn’t build affordable homes in any form or shape, and until this is changed and more affordable homes are build specially for the first time buyers the country will always suffer from affordable homes for low and medium income people 

And let’s face it the country’s economy is fully tied to tourists and foreigners buying homes here they have no other reliable source of income, there is no major industry here which can bring in billions and country is heavily reliant on EU help with budget 

So the answer is not more tax on tourist but a clear policy to tackle the question of affordable homes directly within the annual budget 

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