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Malaga gets tough on unregistered private-home holiday lets in the city

Malaga gets tough on unregistered private-home holiday lets in the city

All parties support the moves which will involve setting up a working group with local residents and increasing inspections

JESÚS HINOJOSA / PILAR R. QUIROS

Friday, 1 June 2018, 10:39

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The council in Malaga city has voted to bring in a series of measures to get tough on owners who rent out homes to tourists without official permission. Just as in many other Spanish cities, locals in the historic centre of Malaga have been complaining that the huge rise in the number of properties being let this way is intruding on their day-to-day lives and pushing up their rents.

In the package of measures, which was approved by all political parties on the council, councillors promised to work with neighbours and community leaders to report any home being privately let that isn't registered on the regional government's official self-catering accommodation list.

A city hall study has recently shown that Airbnb, the well-known online private home-letting service, had double the amount of properties listed than the number recorded on the Junta de Andalucía's official register. It said that some 2,500 are actually recorded but a search of Malaga city on Airbnb revealed 4,782. When the data is looked at by the number of beds available, the survey suggests that of the 20,128 on Airbnb, some 7,000 are illegally listed.

The study itself recommended that councillors take tougher measures, although regional legislation doesn't currently allow the council to ban or severely restrict this type of property, as has been done in Palma de Mallorca.

Councillors voted for more resources to deal with the problem, including increasing the number of inspections. A working group will be set up between the different political groups on the council, representatives of the Junta de Andalucía regional government and residents in the areas with the highest concentration of rental properties in order to monitor the situation.

The head of one neighbourhood association representing the historic city centre, Alejandro Villén Leal, highlighted that residents have no comeback when they call Local Police with complaints about tourists' behaviour in their blocks of residential flats, as officers can only act if the owners of the flats are present, whereas in a hotel when they throw a party in the rooms, they throw them out on the street.

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