Rental prices in Spain in 2021

How much does it cost to rent in Spain? Prices drop during the pandemic

How much is rent in Spain? The good news for those who are planning to rent property in Spain in 2021, a great alternative if you're not ready to buy, is that the price of housing rental in Spain has fallen by 3.8% during the 12 months of the pandemic, according to a report published by idealista.
Tourist lets in Barcelona

Barcelona to ban the rental of rooms for less than a month

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic where the tourism sector has been heavily affected in Spain, Barcelona City Council has announced that it plans to ban the rental of rooms for less than a month to prevent the proliferation of tourist rentals in the city. Tourist or short-term rentals h
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Rent to buy: All you need to know about this business deal in Spain

Renting with the option to buy is one of the most recurrent contracts today in Spain, although it isn't as easy as it seems. It is an atypical complex contract, which has no specific legal regulation, as it is a contract that contains two legal businesses (renting and purchase option).&nb
Be sure to follow all the legal steps to cancel your rental agreement in Spain / Gtres

How to formally end long-term lease agreements in Spain

For many this topic may seem rather pointless or futile; but the fact of the matter is that if you fail to cancel a lease agreement properly in Spain, it may have serious legal (and financial) repercussions for the tenant. In Spain, long-term contracts for rental properties which act as the pe
These are the tax breaks you can receive for short-term holiday lets in Spain / Gtres

Buy-to-let in Spain: landlord tax reliefs

As you are probably aware by now, one of the best, if not the best, businesses in Spain as of late is to rent out property, specifically as a holiday home (short-term).
To ensure a landlord gives you back your deposit, make sure it is protected in an official tenancy deposit scheme / Gtres

Rental deposit scheme: how to get your deposit back

In point five of our previous blog post (Renting in Spain? Five clauses you should be mindful of), we discussed how some devious landlords in Spain, after a lease is over, like to pocket a tenant’s one-month deposit and do not hand it back, giving all sorts of lame excuses.
If you lease property in Spain, you may be eligible for reductions in your income tax / Gtres

Declaring your income tax for rented property in Spain

As the deadline for the 2018 tax returns draws nearer, we remind you of the importance of doing your income tax returns in Spain and how to declare the IRPF if you rent your house to tourists and long-term tenants. The Spanish Tax Agency, the Hacienda, demanded that thousands of taxpayers pay