Renting a home long-term

Long-term rentals (alquiler de vivienda habitual) give strong tenant protections: contracts are typically annual but you can stay up to five years if you keep paying (seven if the landlord is a company). Expect to provide NIE, proof of income, and one to two months' deposit (fianza) — by law the basic fianza is one month for unfurnished housing, and it must be lodged with the regional registry. Get everything in writing: inventory, who pays which utilities, and how the deposit is returned. Holiday-licence properties advertised for winter often aren't valid long-term lets — a proper contrato de arrendamiento (tenancy agreement) matters for the padrón and residency paperwork. If a dispute arises, a burofax is the formal first step before anything legal.

Updated 12 Sept

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