What is the first thing you have to do if you want to rent out a property for holiday let?

Before marketing tourist stays in residential homes you must submit the corresponding declaration responsible for the start of the tourist activity (DRIAT) in which you show compliance with the requirements established in the current regulations, with registration to the Insular Council of Mallorca and Palma City Council, depending on where your home is located, and pay the corresponding fee. Only new declarations responsible for the start of commercialisation of tourist stays can be submitted if they refer to a residential property that is located in the areas declared expressly suitable in the Tourist Zones outlined by the Insular Council of Mallorca and Palma City Council.

What documents do you have to accompany with the DRIAT?

Specifically, together with the presentation of the declaration responsible for the start of tourist activity, you must submit the following documentation: -

1 Photocopy of your valid identification document (NIE or passport)

2 Municipal certificate (Certificado municipal acreditativo) accrediting the property to

3 Certificate accrediting the acquisition of tourist plazas.

4 In the case of renting out a main residence (for 60 days per year max), a valid “empadronamiento” from the municipality indicating the property is the main residence of the of the owner.

5 Documentation accrediting that in the community of owners the tourist commercialisation is permitted within the bylaws of the community of owners (declaration that the statutes do not prevent the tourist lease).

6 Completed Annex 6 form of Decree 20/2015 (see below) relating to the modernisation and quality plan (Modelo del plan de modernización y calidad )for tourist stays

7 Payment of the corresponding administration fees (tasas). This documentation can be presented in the register of the Ministry (Consejería) responsible for tourism or in any of the registers provided for in Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations.

You can submit your DRIAT online via the Sede Electrónica of the Government of the Balearic Islands. The Sede Electrónica is a website that is available to citizens on the Internet and owned by the Government of the Balearic Islands (GOIB).

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