The Association of Tourist Housing and Apartment Professionals of Andalusia (AVVAPro) has shown the Malaga City Council its concern about the request it has made to the Junta de Andalucía to cancel the registration in the Andalusian Tourism Registry of a total of 1.120 housing for tourist use.
“This retroactive measure implies, in practice, “the revocation of the right of owners to exploit their properties for tourism”, says the vice president of AVVAPro Juan Cubo. For this reason, The association requests the Councilor for Urban Planning, Carmen Casero, a meeting to be transparent with the sector.
“We need the municipal corporation to share with us all the steps it is taking and its roadmap, because this is what was promised to us in its day. We have been working with the City Council for more than four years and making positive proposals. We need maximum transparency in everything that affects our sector, which is key for the city. "We still do not know the study that the City Council refers to for the adoption of such measures.", add Cube.
The Malaga City Council argues that this measure is necessary to detect and sanction illegal homes, as well as to address rising house prices. AVVAPro shares the objectives of the Consistory, but rejects the measures adopted because, in addition to not being proportionate or adequate from a legal point of view, they will not solve the problem.
And for this AVVAPro uses the objective data of the National Institute of Statistics (INE), which in their latest housing census show that tourist homes are not the cause of the rise in prices and the limited supply of long-term rentals in the city. Tourist accommodation is only the 2,6% (7.038) of the total housing stock in Malaga capital (261.857), while completely empty homes monopolize the 6,3% (16.638). If we add those for very sporadic use to the empty ones (less than three months a year) This figure increases to 14,6% (a total of 38.405). That is to say, For every tourist accommodation there are five that are uninhabited and do not provide a home for anyone., neither economic impact nor job creation.
