10 ILLEGAL vacationer flats in a Palma residence block have every been fined €80,000 for not having a licence and the house owners have been instructed to cease renting them out.
The penalty has been imposed by the Consell de Mallcora’s tourism division following a protest by residents exterior the block on Calle Gaspar Bennazar final July.
Inspectors will examine if the closure order has been complied with and if that doesn’t occur, the matter shall be handed over to the Prosecutor’s Workplace.
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It’s not recognized whether or not the identical individual or firm owns all the flats which have been sanctioned.
Final August, €80,000 penalties had been doled out to 12 flats in the identical constructing within the Levante space of Palma.
An extra seven flats had been hit with related fines in November.
As of final autumn, solely 621 properties in Palma had official licences to lease to vacationers.
The authorities in Mallorca are notably involved in regards to the variety of vacation leases by way of the Airbnb platform, with claims that a minimum of 70% of them are unlawful.
Over the newest fines, Mallorca’s head of tourism, Jose Marcial Rodriguez Diaz, mentioned unlawful letting is not only unfair competitors, however ‘a horrible drawback for coexistence, which is one thing we need to cease’.
He mentioned the order to shut the ten vacation lets and the fines had been the results of ‘lengthy work’ by his division which has ‘scrupulously complied with all administrative processes’ and allowed it to behave legally.
The vary of fines on Mallorca for unlawful vacation leases begins at €40,001 with the highest stage being €400,000.
