Holiday rental management in Estepona

We manage your tourist dwelling from start to finish: listing and photos, pricing and calendar, guest communication and incidents, resolved by our own plumbing, electrical, air-conditioning and building team. You follow everything from your owner area. Estepona has 8,194 registered tourist dwellings with 45,217 places, and it is the only town we work in whose record year for new registrations is 2025, with 1,216.

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   1. Tourism: a responsible declaration to the regional government

   Andalusian tourism registration is not a licence: you file an electronic responsible declaration and the home is registered with a VUT/MA/ code plus five digits, which must appear on the receipt given to the guest. It does not replace planning, owners' association or tax obligations.

   Decreto 28/2016 (texto consolidado) · Junta de Andalucía
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   2. Planning: the home must comply with the local plan

   The responsible declaration states that the home complies with planning and holds the occupancy or habitability certificate it requires. If that proves inaccurate, the registration is cancelled. It is checked home by home.

   Decreto 28/2016 (texto consolidado) · Junta de Andalucía
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   3. Owners' association: three-fifths approval

   Since 3 April 2025, the Horizontal Property Act requires the association's prior express approval by three fifths of owners and quotas. Anyone already letting under the tourism rules before that date may carry on.

   Decreto-ley 1/2025 de Andalucía (BOJA 41, 03-03-2025)
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   4. Technical requirements

   14 m² of built area per place, with a minimum of 25 m² for the home, and up to 15 places for whole-home lettings. Cooling is compulsory if it is marketed from May to August, heating from December to March.

   Decreto 28/2016 (texto consolidado) · Junta de Andalucía
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   5. Duties while letting

   A 24-hour contact line, cleaning on each guest's arrival and departure, and official complaint forms with their notice on display. Which of these we take on is set out in the written proposal.

   Decreto 28/2016 (texto consolidado) · Junta de Andalucía
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   6. Guest registration

   Each stay is reported to SES.Hospedajes within 24 hours of the booking or its cancellation, and the entry form is signed by every person over fourteen.

   RD 933/2021 · registro de viajeros (SES.Hospedajes)
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   7. The national registry was annulled

   In judgment 620/2026 the Supreme Court annulled the national Single Registry for short-term lets. The Digital Single Window and the Andalusian registry remain in force — the latter is the one you need.

   Tribunal Supremo · sentencia 620/2026 (nota del CGPJ)
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   Local rules in Estepona

   Something happened in Estepona that has not happened in any other town we work in, and it is worth telling in full. While the 2025 waste charge was being processed, a formal objection asked expressly for the «raising of the rate for tourist dwellings», and the council **rejected it** on 27 December 2024. So today waste is paid on the property's cadastral value, on a nine-band scale running from €26.78 to €220.71 a year, and the ordinance does not mention tourist use once. That is a different mechanism from Marbella's, which has a heading of its own, and from Torremolinos's, which bills it as a business activity: do not carry over what you hear about one town to the next. Otherwise, as of 23 September 2026 there is no record of Estepona invoking Decree-law 1/2025 —neither its article 2 nor its article 6— nor of any moratorium, zoning or municipal change-of-use requirement. The planning in force is the 1994 General Plan, partially adapted to the Andalusian planning act in 2010.

   BOP de Málaga núm. 250, 31-12-2024 · tasa de residuos de Estepona (edicto 5445/2024)