Letting

Since the law on apartments to rent and the illegal lettings has been enforced over the last 8 years or so, it's become more and more difficult to decide if buying a property on a legally rentable complex, to provide an income, is actually a good idea. The laws on short term rental are extremely complex...in fact, some of them are still being changed and decided upon as this article goes to...

Recently there has been loads of information released about the letting of property both legal and illegal.  The laws have been in place since 1995, but only when the crisis hit and the hotels realised that they were no longer full and that their main competition was actually private owners letting their apartments and villas, did the Canarian Government actually intervene and start enforcing...

Are the letting laws changing in Tenerife? At the end of 2014, there was a draft written that may well change the current short term letting laws in Tenerife. What you read here is still law until any changes have been made, but things may well progress over the next couple of months in 2015. Basically, the new law needs to be checked over by lawyers and will no doubt take longer than 2 or 3...

Hot news for any of you that have been considering illegal letting appeals.  Janet Anscombe has reported on her blog that the first of the illegal letting appeals have been heard in court. Before the court hearing the judge wanted to speak with Jose Escobedo who is currently leading a team of solicitors that are fighting the judgements and appealing in court on cases of illegal lettings....

Short term rental - Holiday letting law in Tenerife. Edit: As of December 2014, there has been a draft law written that may well change things later in 2015, click the link to find out about the possible changes to the short term letting laws in Tenerife. Subject to "Ley 7/1995", the short term commercial letting of property i.e. holiday letting, in the Canary Islands is illegal, unless the complex...