Secure your homeownership rights with these tips

The following is a series of advice and documentation that should have available homeowners in areas of tourist potential.

Firstly, actions to avoid Modernisation Plans (Plans for Modernisation, Improvement and Increased Competitiveness) which are taken to the boards disguised as works for improvement of the property, but which entail a seizure of the property for exclusively tourist use, and cannot be recovered for another use in times of tourist crisis and devaluing the value of the properties.

Recommendation for homeowners who have their properties in tourist operation so that they will not lose value by restricting them to a single use, tourism, without the possibility of rescuing them in times of tourist crisis to use them as a first or second residence, to rent them for long periods or to rent them out as holiday homes.

Modernisation Plans must be avoided at all costs so as not to leave the property tied exclusively to tourist use.

Information that should be collected by the communities to prevent further problems and to demonstrate that the properties were built as what they are, dwellings subject to the Horizontal Property Law, with a tourist potential and that they are not being tourist operated, if that is the case.

We end this series of recommendations with the documentation that homeowners need to collect.

In this link you can download the form to communicate the non-assignment of the property to the tourist operation.

And in this other one, the model to request the certificate of consolidated use from the corresponding town council.