Do I need a license to rent out my apartment? Valencia region

Dear Homefinder:

I do not know how authorities work there in your region, but anyhow... even when it is not obligatory to be registered, if you do not want to get into this trouble you refer... you are always allowed to have them registered. No big deal.

Is that what you do in  your agency? In that case, it is certainly a cautious, wise thing to do.

Best wishes,

Maria

Hello again Maria

An interesting thread, thank you for your response.

Yes that is exactly the way that the authorities here work, even the town hall. They do what they think, whenever they like, and leave you to argue your way out of it if they are wrong.

Agencies in Valencia have always had to register, themselves and the properties. Now the situation has changed because the details have to be published on all promotional material. My website is well placed for local keywords and I know that I will be one of the first inspected. I don't want a red face so I am putting the details onto every rental property.

I also have to insist that collaboratiing agencies and tour operators do the same, also that my villa owners who rent directly also do it. This is no big deal for me because they are all registered anyway.

We have discussed at length the wording of the law. You say that, according to the way it is written, the owner of a single property does not have to register. I must bow to your better judgement here and have to agree but only partly. I know that their intentions were that they did expect them to register. Otherwise they had no reason to change the law because, apart from this, it is virtually the same as the old law. The wording is certaily ambiguous and I cannot understand how they could make a mistake like that. Spanish is not my natural language but the opinion of others is around 50/50. Perhaps we shoul look at the Valenciano text as well to see if it has the same ambiguity.

Consequently can we say that the opinion, yours and mine, is that it is probably best for all owners to register? As you say it is no big deal, it costs nothing and avoids a lot of hassle.

Homefinder

Dear Maria

Please permit me to "eat humble pie" and admit that you were right and I was wrong about the most important aspect of this discussion - Does an owner of a single property in the Valencia region have to register it as a Tourist Unit or not?
The answer is NO! The owner just has to register that there is tourist interest but there is no registration number or the need to quote this in an advertisment; you also correctly referred to this fact in another thread.
HOWEVER - The owner of a single property is obliged to comply with all the other conditions, which you set out in the first post of this thread.
Apart from this, anyone who comercialises TWO or more properties, whether owned directly or rented on behalf of the actual owner, is obliged to register each property and publish the registration details.

I was misled about this point by an abogada acting for my trade association. To my best knowledge she was in turn misled by an official of the Valencia Toiurist Agency. The question has now been clarified and the association sent a note to all members in this respect.

Thank you for you patience.

Homefinder