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10 ILLEGAL vacationer flats in a Palma house block have every been fined €80,000 for not having a licence and the house owners have been advised 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 will likely be handed over to the Prosecutor’s Workplace.
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It’s not recognized whether or not the identical particular person or firm owns the entire 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 comparable 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 concerning the variety of vacation leases through the Airbnb platform, with claims that not less than 70% of them are unlawful.
Over the most recent fines, Mallorca’s head of tourism, Jose Marcial Rodriguez Diaz, stated unlawful letting isn’t just unfair competitors, however ‘a horrible downside for coexistence, which is one thing we wish to cease’.
He stated 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.
