The municipality meets the requirements established by the government in the recently published rental price benchmarks
San Bartolomé de Tirajana could be declared a “tensioned area” due to rental prices. A measure included in the new housing law and that aims to “relieve” those municipalities in which, at the discretion of the national Executive based on the information provided by the State Tax Administration Agency, the rental price is above what which should.
A “stressed area” is understood to be those municipalities where more than 30% of income has to be allocated to rent. To consult this data, the Government of Spain has provided a web application in which you can consult those areas in which, on average, rental expenses exceed 30% of monthly income.
If we take as a reference the Minimum Interprofessional Salary prorated in 12 payments (1.325 euros), we can see how the majority of areas of the municipality exceed 40% with the exception of the area of El Veril and part of San Agustín, where it is located at 37 %.
If we go down to the SMI prorated in 14 payments (1.125 euros) the situation is much more critical. In this case, we would allocate more than 40% of our salary to a rental in San Bartolomé de Tirajana regardless of the area, even going as far as having to allocate 55% of the monthly income in El Tablero or Playa del Inglés.
The “positive” part is found in El Castillo del Romeral and the upper area of the municipality, where in both cases the percentage is “only” 28% and 33%, respectively. Although it is also true that this area (the largest in the municipality analyzed by the web application) only includes 16 rental homes.
At the moment, the Canary Islands Executive does not seem to have special interest in requesting this measure from the State. Especially considering that a few days ago it approved its own housing law decree with twenty measures that also include actions to facilitate access to rentals for the Canarian population.
