Holiday Home Rental Dilemma

It has been proven with the Algarve Resident’s recent report that the law shows no sign of being altered or slowed down as the news on the complex licensing legislation affecting holiday rental properties.

Now there is one Algarve villa resort which has stepped up to the challenge. The Caspo Business, located in Praia do Carvoeiro has initiated and launched a service which offers their clients a license application for their benefit. Just like any service, this service has some mundane cost, and is not for free: on an average, the price is from 1,000 to 1,200 per property. Already, around 15 Germans clients have gone on to register and although the first applications have been submitted to the Camaras two months ago, no licenses have been issued – as of late.

These Portugal properties are supposed to be checked and detailed upon by the Autoridade de Segurança Alimentar e Económica (ASAE), a seed of the government which inspects and enforces this legislation, but the President of the Algarve Tourism Board, Helder Martins, said during his brief conference on January 13, that ever since the legislation has been implemented by the ASAE, there is about 10 villa owners in the whole Algarve region had managed to get their license from the local camara.

It was also revealed last month that an owner from Quinta do Lago had already finished with all his requirements (especially the paperwork), but had his license rebuked and denied simply because the resort’s lvara do loteamento (the master planning document submitted when the resort was first developed) only allows that the properties are used for habitation and not for tourism. And this only means that in order for you to get a license, the master planning of your property must be altered, an unlikely move that needs to be done.

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