The Ibiza Town Hall has approved a new sanction of 417,000 euros for illegal tourist rental, after initiating a sanctioning file against the owner of a property located in the neighborhood of Es Viver, which was detected in 2024 exercising this activity without the required license.
The decision was adopted on Tuesday by the municipal Government Board, which considers the facts a serious infringement, to use the property for a use contrary to that established in the town planning of the municipality. The proposed penalty amounts to 75% of the market value of the property, as provided for in the current regulations, and is processed through the urban planning process, independently of possible sanctions of a tourist nature that may be imposed by other administrations.
The Consistory stresses that this type of action is part of the fight against illegal tourist rentals, one of the main municipal priorities in view of the serious problem of access to housing suffered by the municipality.
The regulations applied in this file are based on Law 12/2017, of December 29, on Urban Planning of the Balearic Islands, on the revision of the General Urban Development Plan of Ibiza and on Decree 1/2024, of January 5, approving the Regulations of the sanctioning procedure of the Administration of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands.
The mayor of Ibiza, Rafael Triguero, has assured that the City Council will be “relentless in its fight against intrusion in all areas, and especially in the tourist housing“. In this regard, he recalled that the file was initiated in 2024 and warned that there are more sanctions in the pipeline.
“We have a very serious problem of access to housing and we are still finding houses being used for a purpose other than that for which they were built. Inspections are working and anyone who thinks they can come to the city to break the law is mistaken,” said the mayor, who said that new sanctions will be announced soon.
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