Apartment owners in the south of Gran Canaria have been receiving fines of £2,000 for living in the homes rather than renting out the flats specifically built for tourists.
They received fines for not renting out apartments specifically built for tourists. Have YOU been hit by a fine? Email: [email protected] and Irish second home owners in the Canary Islands have been hit with £2,000 fines for refusing to rent out their holiday properties to tourists.
Reports in April last year identified a Spanish OAP as the first person fined under a controversial tourist law by the Canary Islands Regional Government. Although some of the people who received the fines have appealed, Mr Hefferman complained he had been left with no option to pay because he only found out about it three months after it was issued when it was too late to fight.
'If we can't do that maybe we have to sell it. Certainly this apartment will be devalued if this rule is enforced.
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