“I commit the complaint for you, managing the record of the complaint and maintaining your anonymity.” With this message on the new website Quenotetiren.com Compromís declares war on tourist apartments in Valencia, a year after leaving the municipal government. Yesterday, the Valencian party presented its new campaign, “Don’t let them throw you away,” which includes the creation of a website where any user can register the address of a tourist apartment that could be reported for its illegal status.
Beforehand, the website allows you to check if the complainant is correct, since the platform includes a search engine to access each of the 5,786 tourist homes that are currently registered in the city of Valencia according to the official registry of the Valencian Community . Listed by postal address and town, the user is invited to first check if the home is correctly registered and, therefore, if it is legal, and then to include it so that the training can execute the complaint.
The platform comes in parallel with the new campaign in defense of access to housing, since the training blames the current difficulties in the Valencian real estate market on the rise of tourist apartments.
According to the municipal spokesperson, Papi Robles, the “lack of control” of tourist apartments, in addition to causing an increase in prices, is reducing the number of residential rental homes: while there are 1,300 residential rental homes in Valencia, there are more than 2,100 apartments. “short-term rental.” She also insists that the problem is difficult to calculate because there are many other tourist apartments that are “irregular” and that “do not appear in any registry.”
Among their proposals, a moratorium on licenses that, they say, ended in the previous mandate; the declaration of Valencia as a city under tension to be able to limit rental prices, a plan to “drastically” restrict tourist apartments with a sanctioning regime, mandatory registration and a progressive rate for owners and, finally, the modification of the Plan General Urban Planning of Valencia, from 1989, which currently does not include any indication on tourist housing. His approaches revolve around the idea that housing prices are mortgaging the lives of all the residents of València.
In this scenario, yesterday it was known that the average amount per home purchased in the Valencian Community during the last twelve months has been 144,756 euros, which represents a quarterly increase of 1.63% and a year-on-year increase of 3.84%, reaching levels from 2010. The figures are part of the Real Estate Statistics released yesterday by the College of Property and Commercial Registrars of Spain, which places the price per square meter of housing at 1,553 euros in the first quarter of the year. , which represents a decrease of 0.2%.
According to what they establish, the price in the Valencian Community is the ninth cheapest price in Spain, which rises on average by 0.8% to reach 1,998 euros/square meter. Alicante scores 1,746 euros per square meter on average, Valencia 1,398 and Castellón 1,159 euros/square meter.
