Zone guide · Dénia
Buying Property in Les Deveses
The far end of Dénia's sand, where the beach runs on towards Oliva and a budget tends to stretch further than it does nearer town. Two things decide a purchase here: where the coastal line falls, and how far back from it you are willing to sit.
4.9 from 104 Google reviews · Juan Bertomeu, abogado ICALI 4643 · Our Dénia office: Calle Ramón y Cajal 5E · Legal position last reviewed July 2026
So, Les Deveses. Drive north out of Dénia, past Les Marines, and keep going until the blocks thin out and the beach bars sit further apart. This is the last of Dénia's sand before Oliva. Flat, open, quiet out of season. People come for the walk, which goes on and on without asking you to make a single decision, and for the price, which is why buyers who started their search nearer town end up out here.
Legally the zone splits along one line, and it is not the one on the agent's map. Under the Ley de Costas, parts of the Les Deveses seafront fall within the maritime public domain and its protection easement, which shapes what a frontline property may ever become. Step back a street and the question changes completely. That is exactly why the second lines here deserve a serious look, and why we check the deslinde before you put a euro down.
Our office is in Dénia itself, Calle Ramón y Cajal 5E, Oficina 1, so this stretch of coast is not a map reference to us. The legal side of every file runs under Juan Antonio Bertomeu Vallés, abogado, ICALI 4643, in practice since 1991, and the firm holds 4.9 from 104 Google reviews across the Dénia and Moraira offices.
Who buys in Les Deveses
Value hunters, mostly, and they usually know exactly what they are doing. This is where a British or German buyer who has been looking nearer town finds a beach house inside budget, and where Dutch and Belgian owners have quietly held on to apartments for a long time. Kitesurfers turn up whenever the wind does. The buyers split cleanly. Some want the frontline and the view, and accept the homework that comes with it. Others want the second or third line, a shorter conversation and a lower price. Both are reasonable. They are not the same purchase.
What we actually check in Les Deveses
The deslinde comes before the deposit
Under the Ley de Costas the coastal protection strip runs 100 metres inland as a general rule, and 20 metres where the land was already urban in 1988. Parts of the Les Deveses seafront fall within the maritime public domain and its protection easement, and where the deslinde falls decides what a frontline property may ever become. Two houses on the same road can sit on opposite sides of that line. We establish the position from the official records before you pay a deposit, not after.
Older beach stock and the habitability paper
A good deal of what sells out here is older stock. Every resale needs its second-occupation position confirmed: a declaración responsable under Decreto 12/2021, valid ten years, renewed on transmission or on a new utility contract. Without it you cannot connect or transfer water and electricity, which turns a bargain into a stalled project. We confirm it exists and still holds before completion.
Which town hall the property answers to
You are at the northern edge of Dénia up here, and the municipal boundary does more work than it looks on an agent's map. The national side ignores it: the buying taxes and the Modelo 210 read the same either way. The local side does not. The urban compatibility report a tourist let needs under Decreto-ley 9/2024 comes from the town hall of the municipality the property actually sits in, and that is the same town hall your declaración responsable goes to. Properties on what feels like one long beach can answer to different councils. We confirm from the records which municipality a plot falls in, because that answer sets the route for everything after.
Holiday lets and the Dénia suspension
Les Deveses and the Dénia licence map
Here is the honest position. Dénia suspended new tourist-use compatibility certificates in the urban core from 11 September 2024, and the suspension was extended and is in force from 12 September 2025. Les Marines, Les Rotes and the Montgó are expressly excluded from it, so new licences there remain possible. Les Deveses is not something we will place on either side of that line from a webpage, and neither should anyone else. On 5 June 2026 the council gave initial approval to a permanent ordinance cutting urban-core licences from 639 to 344 from 2029, and that is not final either; it sits in public consultation. So no, we will not tell you Les Deveses is open. We check the live position for the exact address before you rely on it. If the property is an apartment, the neighbours vote first: since 3 April 2025 a new tourist let needs approval by a three-fifths majority under article 17.12 of the Ley de Propiedad Horizontal. And if anyone waves a national register number at you, the Supreme Court annulled that single register on 19 May 2026. The regional VUT registration is the live requirement.
Tourist rental licences in Dénia: the zone map and our fixed feeOwning in Les Deveses, the tax side
Dénia hands its local tax collection to SUMA, so the IBI, the plusvalía when you sell and the waste charge all reach you from SUMA rather than from the town hall itself. None of that touches the national side. As a non-resident you file a Modelo 210 every year even when the house sits empty all winter, and paying the IBI does not cover it. The imputed base is 1.1 per cent of the valor catastral where it was revised in the last 10 years and 2 per cent where it was not, taxed at 19 per cent for EU and EEA residents and 24 per cent for everyone else, the UK included since Brexit. The timing has just moved: imputed income accrued from 2026 onwards is filed between 1 April and 31 December of the following year, where anything accrued up to 2025 could go in at any point in the following calendar year up to 31 December. One small mercy for British owners. The 24 per cent hits the imputed and rental income, but a gain when you sell is still taxed at 19 per cent.
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