Rental management in the Costa del Sol.

Glaser offers several Costa del Sol management packages, each pairs a commitment length with a different balance of flexibility. The right pick depends on which city your property is in and what you're optimising for: short-let yield, long-stay occupancy, or a mixed model. We walk you through the options at the discovery call.

Yes, owner-use blocks are standard for every Costa del Sol property we manage. Owner-use patterns vary widely by city: coastal short-let cities concentrate around summer; Benahavís and Marbella add Easter and golf-season; Fuengirola and Málaga have steadier year-round usage. Tell us your dates and we block the calendar before the listing goes live. Reasonable owner usage is built into every Glaser management agreement; your property stays yours.

You don't until we've worked together. What we promise up front: a senior team member as your direct contact, a monthly statement that ties out to the cent, and an honest no when we're not the right manager for your block. Our network covers ten cities with very different community-vote and licensing dynamics, Mijas's strict enforcement, Marbella's aggressive municipality, Málaga's moratorium, Benahavís's development statutes, we're explicit about each.

Glaser Group operates one rental-management site per Costa del Sol city: Benalmádena (our home), Fuengirola, Mijas, Marbella, Málaga, Torremolinos and Benahavís. Active management is in Benalmádena, Fuengirola and Mijas, our daily operational triangle. We're opening in the other four with a shorter onboarding queue. Tell us where your property sits and we'll route you to the right city-specific team. Properties outside the Costa del Sol, we don't operate there and we'll say so.

Yes, at the discovery call. We share comparable figures from our active management cities (Benalmádena, Fuengirola, Mijas) and from broader Costa del Sol market data, separated by city and sub-market. We're explicit about which figures come from our operational data and which are directional from the broader market. Real numbers, real dates.

We onboard at handover or within three months of keys. Off-plan rental-readiness varies dramatically across the Costa del Sol, Marbella's Nueva Andalucía and East Side, Estepona's New Golden Mile, Benahavís's El Paraíso and Atalaya, plus the moratorium-affected Málaga municipality each behave differently. Before formal onboarding we can advise on city- and development-specific positioning. Formal management starts when the keys are in your hand.

Airbnb, Booking.com, VRBO and more. Channel mix per property varies by city: Marbella and Benahavís lean premium and direct-booking; Fuengirola and Torremolinos lean long-stay platforms; Málaga centro-historico leans city-stay channels. Direct bookings come through this umbrella site and each city's Glaser site.

Low-season patterns vary city-by-city across the Costa del Sol: Fuengirola and Málaga are most year-round; Mijas and Benalmádena have steady coastal long-stay; Marbella, Benahavís and Estepona dip more in winter but recover at Easter. We pick the operational mix per property; there isn't one Costa del Sol low-season strategy.

When the community of owners has voted in favour of short-term rental, or where the property is an individual freehold villa with no community vote required, the Junta de Andalucía declaración responsable typically processes in 1-5 working days. The same Andalusian regional process under Decreto 31/2024 applies across the Costa del Sol. Important exceptions: Málaga municipality has a 3-year city-wide moratorium on new VUT licences (existing licences are grandfathered). Benahavís premium-development community statutes often add further restrictions. The community vote itself is a separate prerequisite, not part of the licence-processing time.

Yes, the 3/5 community-of-owners rule applies across the Costa del Sol, as it does across Andalucía under the April 2025 amendment to the Ley de Propiedad Horizontal, a three-fifths majority vote is required in community buildings before any new VUT licence can be granted. Existing licences from before April 2025 are grandfathered. Enforcement varies sharply by city: Mijas and Marbella are among the strictest; Fuengirola and Torremolinos have many buildings that have voted to permit; Málaga's city-wide moratorium overrides much of the question for new applications; Benahavís development statutes often add restrictions on top. We read each comunidad's meeting minutes for every property we consider managing.

No longer. The NRUA (Número de Registro Único de Alquiler) was the national rental register created by Royal Decree 1312/2024 and briefly required from 1 July 2025. In May 2026 the Supreme Court annulled it, holding that the State lacked the competence to create it. Booking platforms must still verify a valid registration number, and in Andalucía that number is your VUT. We handle the VUT registration at onboarding: it is part of the management package, not charged separately.

Owner statements are issued in the first week of each month for the previous month's reservations. Each statement breaks out platform commission, cleaning, maintenance, and our management fee separately so you can see exactly where the gross income goes. Bank transfers go out the same day the statement is issued. Year-end summaries are prepared every January for the Spanish tax year and sent to your gestor or accountant on request.

Yes, every guest stay in a VUT property must be registered with the Guardia Civil under the SES.HOSPEDAJES system within 24 hours of arrival. We handle this for every Glaser-managed property; it's not work the owner needs to do. Failure to register guests is one of the most common causes of municipal fines for owners self-managing in the Costa del Sol. The system requires guest passport details and stay dates; everything is logged and we keep records for the legal retention period.

Glaser's the Costa del Sol management package is end-to-end, operational services that Spanish municipal law and platform algorithms both require, all included in one fee. Specifically: VUT licensing through the Junta de Andalucía · multi-portal listing on Airbnb, Booking.com, VRBO and more · dynamic pricing calibrated on the Costa del Sol comparables · guest enquiries and 24-hour multilingual support · in-person check-in (we don't use lockboxes) · welcome basket · SES.HOSPEDAJES traveller registration · cleaning · linen · maintenance coordination · monthly owner statements with platform fees broken out · and annual N2 filing each February. Photography, professional towel and linen sets, and the N2 filing itself are quoted separately at onboarding.

Yes, every VUT property is required to file the Modelo N2 declaration with the Junta de Andalucía each February for the previous year. We prepare the filing alongside your monthly statements through the year, so the data is ready when February comes. The N2 filing is a separately-quoted service rather than included in the standard management fee. For non-Spanish-resident owners, we also flag the Modelo 210 annual non-resident income tax requirement and route you to a Spanish gestor if you don't already have one.