If you are thinking about renting out your home in Gran Alacant, Alicante for holiday rentals, make sure you are legal!
Since 2015 in the Valencian community (of which Gran Alacant, Alicante is a part), it has been compulsory for all types of tourist accommodation including viviendas turisticas (tourist dwellings) to be registered with the Tourist Business Register, or as it is known in Spanish ‘Registro de Empresas, Establecimientos y Profesiones Turísticas
Holiday Rental Laws In Alicante
Many who own a property and wish to use it as a rental home for holidaymakers seem to have a misconception that registering your property legally for holiday rentals is an expensive and difficult thing to do in Alicante, which is far from the truth. Registering a property as a rental home, is a straightforward business in Alicante and the Valencia region. If you do decide to rent your holiday villa for tourist purposes in Gran Alacant, Alicante, it would be classed as Vivienda Turistica and in the Valencian region since 2009, you have an obligation to register your property and obtain a Tourist Licence. This also gives potential renters peace of mind to know that the holiday property they are renting a) exists b) meets safety standards and c) is properly and legally insured.
Not Registering Your Property For Holiday Lets In Alicante
If you decide to use your property for holiday rentals without registering your rental in Alicante, remember you are breaking the law and it is seen as a very serious infraction of the law, with fines of up to €110,000 being levied against those who fail to disclose/register their property with the local tourist board in Alicante and even the possibility of a prison sentence. If you are paying for your property to be listed on a holiday rental web site, your registration number is required. Even if you place your property to rent on a free to list holiday rental web site, your legal registration number should also be placed. Please bear in mind that there are Spanish government departments who monitor holiday rental web pages and Facebook pages for holiday rental availability advertisements.
Registering Your Property For Holiday Lets in Alicante – Alicante Holiday Villas
Alicante Holiday Villas can help with all aspects of rental registration of your holiday property in Alicante and indeed, we will not accept any properties onto our website without the owners agreement to obtain a licence for them. All Alicante Holiday Villa’s rental properties in Alicante, clearly show the Official Tourist Licence number for the property on each property’s webpage.
Gaining A Rental Registration Number In Alicante
There are several sets of data that are required from the owner to enable us to apply for your registration and then we can complete with the necessary form and present all documentation to the Registro del Servicio Territorial de Turismo in Alicante. Once we have registered your property, it will then be classified by the Servicio Territorial de Turismo, your property’s details and data will be entered into the Registro and you as the owner will be given a document confirming your registration. All properties that are registered and legal to be used as a holiday rental in the Alicante, Valencian region must display its status vivienda turistica along with the registration number which will look similar to this – VT123456A.
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