Holiday rental management in Marbella

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. Marbella has more registered tourist dwellings than any other town in the province: 15,773, ahead even of the capital.

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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 Marbella

   Marbella is one of the few towns whose waste ordinance names tourist dwellings explicitly. Since 1 January 2026 there is a specific heading, «E bis) Tourist dwellings», which does not replace the residential rate: it is added to it, at €39.96 per room per year, and it is triggered by being registered with the regional registry on 1 January, not by trading. Separately, planning is about to change: the council gave final approval to the new General Municipal Plan on 18 September 2026, but as of 23 September it does not appear published in the provincial gazette, and until it is the 1986 plan remains in force, reinstated after the courts annulled the 2010 one. If your home holds older permits, it is worth checking which plan granted them. We have not read the new plan's text: we will not tell you what it says about tourist accommodation until it is published. Having searched the provincial gazette on 23 September 2026, no moratorium, zoning or municipal change-of-use requirement appears.

   BOP de Málaga núm. 248, 30-12-2025 · tasa de residuos de Marbella, epígrafe «E bis) Viviendas turísticas» (edicto 5204/2025)