Zone guide · Moraira
Cap Blanc Moraira
Coastal Moraira, where two questions decide most of it: where the Coastal Law falls on your plot, and whether the habitability paperwork was ever kept up.
4.9 from 104 Google reviews · Juan Bertomeu, abogado ICALI 4643 · Our office in Moraira: Calle del Dr. Calatayud 39 · Legal position last reviewed July 2026
So, legally, Cap Blanc is a coastal address in the municipality of Teulada-Moraira, and that sentence carries most of what matters. Coast side means the Ley de Costas can reach the plot, and the line that decides it was drawn by an official survey rather than by an agent's map. Which is why the checks here belong on your actual address, not on the postcode.
The other one that keeps coming up is the age of the paperwork. Where a house here dates back decades, the habitability position has often lapsed quietly somewhere along the way, and nobody notices until the water contract is refused. And then there is something buyers arriving from Xabia or Denia do not expect: this town hall has not closed the door on tourist licences.
Our office is in the village, Calle del Dr. Calatayud 39. Juan Antonio Bertomeu Valles, abogado, ICALI 4643, practising since 1991, sees buyers there. Daniel Bertomeu, tax adviser (AEDAF 06838, APAFCV 3080), handles the tax side. Across the Moraira and Denia offices we hold 4.9 from 104 Google reviews. Bring the address and the escritura and you will get what we actually find, including the times the honest answer is that we need to ask the town hall first.
Who buys in Cap Blanc
Quiet money, mostly. British and German couples buying the house they mean to keep, with Dutch, Belgian and Nordic owners on the same streets. In our experience they are rarely first-time buyers in Spain and rarely in a hurry. That shapes the legal work. The questions we get here are about what can be extended, rebuilt or kept, not about how fast the deal can close.
What we actually check in Cap Blanc
Where the Coastal Law falls
Cap Blanc is on the coast, so the Ley de Costas is live here. The protection strip runs 100 metres inland as a general rule, or 20 metres where the land was already urban in 1988, and the deslinde, the official boundary line, decides which applies to your plot. A villa can be perfectly legal to buy and still be restricted in what you may later extend or rebuild. We check the deslinde position for the exact address before you commit to anything.
Older houses and the segunda ocupacion
Where a house here dates back decades, the habitability paperwork has usually lapsed since. The segunda ocupacion is a declaracion responsable under Decreto 12/2021, valid ten years, renewed on transmission or when a new utility contract is taken out. Without it there is no water and no electricity in your name. That is normally the moment a buyer learns it exists. We deal with it before completion, not after.
What the purchase costs, and one trap
Resale ITP is 9% from 1 June 2026 under Ley 5/2025, rising to 11% on the part of the price above 1,000,000 euros. Note the wording: the higher rate bites only on the slice above that figure, not on the whole price, so if you are anywhere near the mark it is worth modelling properly rather than assuming the worst. Deeds signed before that date paid 10%. New build is 10% IVA plus 1.4% AJD, which was 1.5% before 1 June 2026. Notary approximately 0.2 to 0.5%, Land Registry approximately 0.1 to 0.25%. And if the seller is non-resident, which here is common, the duty to retain 3% of the price and pay it on Modelo 211 within one month of completion is yours as buyer, not theirs.
Holiday lets in Teulada-Moraira
Letting a Cap Blanc house out
Here is the real advantage, said plainly. Teulada-Moraira has no tourist-licence moratorium. Xabia has capped every zone and provisionally frozen apartment lets, Denia has suspended its urban core, and this town hall kept the door open, so a new licence is possible. Then the rules. Under Decreto-ley 9/2024, in force since 8 August 2024, a VUT is a whole dwelling let for ten days or fewer to the same guest, letting by the room is prohibited, the municipal urban compatibility report (ICU) is mandatory, registration lasts five years and fines reach 600,000 euros. The ICU fee here is around 60 euros, but treat that as an estimate drawn from neighbouring town halls until we confirm it on your file. If the property is a villa rather than a flat in a block, the community approval by three fifths majority that has applied to apartment lets since 3 April 2025 under Ley Organica 1/2025 does not arise. What we cannot do is answer from a street name. Whether a specific address qualifies turns on the property, its classification and the Coastal Law position, so we check the live position for the exact address. And ignore anyone selling you a national registry number: it was annulled by STS 620/2026 of 19 May 2026. The regional VUT registration is the live requirement.
Tourist rental licences in Moraira: no moratorium here, and our fixed feeOwning in Cap Blanc, the tax side
Once it is yours, the bills come from two directions. The local ones, IBI among them, arrive through SUMA, because Teulada-Moraira delegates its tax collection to the provincial body, so do not expect the town hall's name on the envelope. The state side is yours to file: Modelo 210. Empty or in your own use, you declare imputed income at 1.1% of the valor catastral if it was revised in the last ten years, otherwise 2%. Rates are 19% for EU and EEA owners, who can deduct expenses against rental income, and 24% for everyone else including the UK, on the gross. Brexit left British owners one consolation: 24% on rental and imputed income, but capital gains on a sale still go at 19%. Deadlines moved under Orden HAC/623/2026. Imputed income accrued up to 2025 files any time in the following calendar year to 31 December; from 2026 onwards the window is 1 April to 31 December of the following year. Rental income from 2026 onwards has a single window, the first twenty calendar days of April. Now, wealth tax. It is worth checking rather than assuming either way: the Valencian exempt minimum rose from 500,000 to 1,000,000 euros from 31 December 2025, and non-residents are taxed on Spanish assets only.
Modelo 210 in Moraira: what non-resident owners file, and our feeCap Blanc: questions buyers actually ask
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