Once the destination and type of house have been selected, it is advisable to know the requirements that the dwelling must meet, such as the surface area of the rooms or the capacity. In this case, the guidelines are established by each Autonomous Community, so they may vary from one region to another. Therefore, you need to go to the Ministry of Tourism to know the technical and aesthetic characteristics that the house must meet and inform you about possible subsidies and subsidies for the creation of the company. Accommodation establishments in rural areas in accordance with the requirements of Article 9.1 of Decree 20/2002 of 29 January on Rural Tourism and Active Tourism in Andalusia must visibly affix the logo of rural tourism outside the property, depending on the type, group, category, modality and specialty that may belong to it. When you become the new owner, you will be responsible for it and will have to cover the costs of legalizing the house. It is obvious that you do not want to take any risk in your investment. I also don`t think he wants to worry about the problems created by the previous owners. All this assuming that this hypothetical buyer is still interested in your home after discovering that it is not legal. A specialized technician will visit your rural accommodation to measure and refine the details with you. We make the plans of the house; we process your statement of liability; We add the attached documentation and everything is ready. It`s as simple as that! In general, there are nine basic requirements that all rural housing must meet.

The redevelopment project is not only located in a rural core, but must also be built in an existing traditional building (still before 1940), but must also be checked by the responsible travel agency to ensure that all its characteristics are respected. Among other things, all rooms must have a private bathroom or toilet and all facilities must have common areas such as social lounge, kitchen and dining room, with the minimum height of all rooms being 2.5 meters. In addition, it must be open to the public for at least eight months a year – always in June, July, August and September – and can be rented in full or from apartments. Delgado reformed the façade, preserved the slate wall typical of the old houses of the area and threw the entire interior. A year later, the work resulted in three complete apartments with a capacity of two and four people and at prices between 50 and 70 euros per night. The ground floor has been reserved for common areas and the check-in counter – check-in is not done here. His name, La Boticaria, is a tribute to his grandmother, who practiced this profession in the same place. The key to legalizing a house on rustic land is whether the house has ever had a first-use permit (formerly known as a certificate of habitability). If you have it, everything is fine; Even if it has expired, it will be possible to renew it. And if the available documents do not include it or do not mention it, we must try to find it in the land register or finally in the town hall itself, where in addition to the original file, a copy must be kept. If, after all this research, it is not possible to find it, the only alternative is to legalize the construction of housing.

For example, in Extremadura, rural accommodation must be located in the countryside or in nuclei with less than 10,000 inhabitants. Similarly, they must also meet a number of architectural, structural and building materials that must meet the peculiarities of each area in order to integrate the building into the environment, whether old or renovated houses. Rural tourist accommodations are considered a country house that: If your home has never had a first-use license, the only solution is to fix this situation. A legalization file must be established. At this point, it is inevitable to face the most delicate point: not all constructions are legalizable. In addition, the cost of legalizing a home can be significant, depending on the severity of the case. Each case must be examined individually to determine whether it is feasible or worth the investment. In 2001, when this form of tourism appeared in Spain, there were 5,865 country houses in our country.

In just over a decade, the number has tripled, surpassing 15,800 installations. Today, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE), in 2017 there were 17,596 rural houses in Spain with a capacity of more than 172,000 tourists, which corresponds to an average of about 10 places per dwelling, employing 27,400 people. By municipality, Castilla y León focuses on the largest number with 3,710 dwellings. * Remember that if your house does not match as a VTAR, you can also register it as accommodation for tourist purposes (VFT) and the requirements are lower (practically any apartment or detached house can be a VFT) These are rural accommodation tourist houses that meet the following requirements: Conditioning a traditional building for a rural tourist house is a beautiful, but complex task. The first thing I need to analyze first is whether the beautiful country house I inherited or want to buy or rent is vã¡lida to develop this business. And if it`s valid, I have to© ask myself the big question that everyone is asking: how many rooms do I have? Last year, more than four million people stayed in this type of establishment, including 3.23 million Spanish citizens. Together, they have exceeded 11 million overnight stays. That is, each tourist stayed an average of 2.75 nights in country houses at the price of about 26 euros per night. Castile and León was also the preferred destination with more than 4.6 million overnight stays.

This is followed by Andalusia (1.21 million) and Catalonia (1.19 million). Overall, rural tourism has a bill of about 200 million euros per year. As is the case with other types of facilities (hotels, guest houses, hostels, etc.), we need to know if there are specific regulations for the business we want to start. Usually, tourist facilities of all kinds depend on the autonomous communities, and therefore it is likely that there is a specific autonomous regulation for rural tourism facilities. As indicated by terrenos.es, the financing margin granted by banks is between 40 and 50% if the house is located on rustic land. There are no specific requirements for mortgages for rustic real estate, as each bank sets its own conditions, evaluates the location of the property and the use that is given. Rural tourist accommodation means buildings that meet the following requirements: in practice, the nuances are diverse and this is not always easy. If you own a home with a long history of inheritance and some documentary uncertainty, it can be difficult to determine what your legal situation is. Payment of the IBI is also mandatory for illegal accommodation, so it is not a valid indicator. It is important to have a title deed signed before a notary, but it also has no value in terms of urban legality. Registration in the land register is a useful fact, but it is only an indication that it is not fully valid. This is a tricky point, as many struggle to get financing for building a property on rustic land.

Most banks have a policy that does not allow them to finance the total number of buildings in rural areas, although they allocate a percentage of the amount needed to carry out the work. At the same time, the State Treasury must carry out the procedures for registering the institution for tax purposes in the category of rural housing. The last point is to register it in the provincial register of tourist accommodation establishments. The total investment can vary from 50,000 to 300,000 euros, depending on whether it is a house already renovated or whether major work needs to be done.