There is now a period of twelve months during which licences will not be issued for any type of property. The island councils and town halls will use this period to determine zones for additional holiday rentals' places.
The government says that in addition to regulating the commercialisation of tourist accommodation, a genuine ceiling will be placed on the number of places available in all accommodation. A "balanced solution" has been sought between addressing housing needs and coexistence between residents and tourists.
According to the government, the ceiling on places, established for the first time, will tackle "the unlimited growth" of tourist accommodation places.
The legislation also creates the means for prosecuting illegal supply, establishes a clear definition of the channels through which tourist accommodation is offered, and demands that a tourism ministry licence registration number is included with property advertisements. If there is no number, the property is deemed to be illegal, leaving websites and owners liable to heavy fines - a maximum on 400,000 euros for websites and 40,000 euros for owners.
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The people who give tge negative comments to genuine problems expressed by the locals below are utter filth. Get back to your cold country and take your outdated colonial views with you. We dont want or need your €20 euro per day spends on beer and an all day english breakfast.
Louisa, call the cops. It's illegal. Or call "Conselleria de Turisme", tell somebody who speaks Catalan or Spanish to do it. Fines can be huge. I also live in Palma and my hood is being turned into an undercover hotel. I'm a local BTW. It's completely illegal (in plurifamiliar buildings, the others need a license) and it has to stop. Steve, sites won't be taken down, but the home owners will be fined heavily, which will stop it. And not all Mallorcans rely on tourism for wages. And when we do, we don't want drunks who trash the streets and jump off the balconies, please.
I live in Anna Catalina and almost every apartment is rented out on holiday rentals. I was watching two men pee against a wall yesterday and when I asked them why they were doing this they told me they were renting 39 Calle st magin ' Santa Catalina and that there were 6 people in a two bedroom apartment with one bathroom !!!! The noise from this property was so loud, and after five minutes I saw two of them just dumping their rubbish in the street , bags of rubbish as the owner had not explained where the rubbish bins are allocated in Santa Catalina. I have lived here since 2004 and it's a nightmare with suitcases up and down the streets in what is called a non tourist area but in fact most of the properties are rented an di have no idea why the town hall does not stop these rentals. There is a distinct lack of long term rentals and normal families cannot find any long term rentals. A ban is a great idea unless one own a house and it does not disturb your neighbours and that a licence is granted. If this were the case, and the owners paid taxes the government would make a lot of money from the illegal rentals. In the meantime we can't sleep at night due to 8 Italians renting from a company who do not care about the law or the people who live and work here and need their sleep. It's a disgrace the streets due to these holiday people, and it's not fair on one people who want to live a normal life without being woken up by a bunch of Germans renting a property more than often way to small for the amount of people in the property .
Is this the start of those in power saying WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH of tourism , tourism is the life blood of Mallorca BUT THOSE FEW IDEALIST who want it capped are going to be judged by the effect the Moratorium will have on the lives of those Mallorcans that rely on tourism for wages.
I shall wait with bated breath for the first website or owner/s to be taken to court.