Zone guide · Dénia
Buying Property in Las Marinas
The beach strip running north-west along the coast road: apartment blocks, frontline houses and the second lines behind them. Legally, one of the open sides of Dénia's holiday-let map, expressly excluded from the licence suspension that covers the centre, with the Ley de Costas running along parts of the front line.
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Two names, one beach. The road signs say Les Marines, in Valencian; the agents and half the owners say Las Marinas. Same strip either way: sand running north-west from the port towards Les Deveses, blocks and beach houses a few steps from the water, packed in August, quiet in February.
Legally, two facts define buying here. Dénia has suspended new tourist-use certificates in its urban core, and Las Marinas is expressly excluded, so letting plans that stalled in the centre now point at the strip. And parts of this seafront sit within the maritime public domain and its protection easement under the Ley de Costas, so on the front line the deslinde gets checked before any deposit moves.
Our office is at Calle Ramón y Cajal 5E, in the centre of Dénia. Every file runs under Juan Antonio Bertomeu Vallés, abogado, ICALI 4643, in practice since 1991, while Daniel Bertomeu, the firm's tax adviser, AEDAF 06838, looks after what owning costs each year. Clients rate the Dénia and Moraira offices 4.9 from 104 Google reviews.
So, who actually buys on the strip. German and Dutch owners have held apartments here for decades, with Belgians and Scandinavians alongside and British buyers everywhere, as they are across Dénia. They split in two. Families and retirees want flat, walk-to-beach living, an apartment where the car keys stop mattering. Investors arrived more recently, pushed up the coast road by the suspension in the centre, hunting one of the few stretches of town where a holiday-let plan still has a route. Which of the two you are decides the homework: one file turns on the Costas line and the building's papers, the other on the licence map and the community's minutes.
Who buys in Las Marinas (Les Marines)
So, who actually buys on the strip. German and Dutch owners have held apartments here for decades, with Belgians and Scandinavians alongside and British buyers everywhere, as they are across Dénia. They split in two. Families and retirees want flat, walk-to-beach living, an apartment where the car keys stop mattering. Investors arrived more recently, pushed up the coast road by the suspension in the centre, hunting one of the few stretches of town where a holiday-let plan still has a route. Which of the two you are decides the homework: one file turns on the Costas line and the building's papers, the other on the licence map and the community's minutes.
What we actually check in Las Marinas (Les Marines)
The deslinde decides what frontline means
Parts of the Las Marinas seafront, and its continuation up at Les Deveses, fall within the maritime public domain or its protection easement under the Ley de Costas. The general rule puts the protection strip 100 metres inland, cut to 20 metres where the land was already urban in 1988, and where the official deslinde falls decides what a frontline home may ever become. We pull the official records and pin down where your plot actually sits before you sign anything.
The community votes before the town hall does
Most of the strip is apartments, and an apartment brings the neighbours into any letting plan. Since 3 April 2025, under Ley Orgánica 1/2025 and article 17.12 of the Ley de Propiedad Horizontal, a new tourist let in a block needs the community's approval by a three fifths majority. Decreto-ley 9/2024 adds the frame: the whole dwelling, ten days or fewer to the same guest, and letting by the room prohibited. We read the statutes and the minutes before the arras, not after.
The habitability paper every resale touches
Every resale here needs its segunda ocupación position confirmed. It works as a declaración responsable under Decreto 12/2021, valid ten years and renewed when the property changes hands or a new utility contract is signed, and without it water and electricity cannot be put in your name. The purchase itself triggers the renewal. We confirm it exists and still holds before completion.
Holiday lets and the Dénia suspension
Las Marinas under Dénia's licence map
Now, the fact that moved the market. The Ayuntamiento de Dénia suspended new tourist-use compatibility certificates in the urban core on 11 September 2024, extended and in force from 12 September 2025, and Las Marinas, along with Les Rotes and the Montgó, is expressly excluded. New licences here remain possible while the centre is blocked. Open does not mean automatic: the municipal compatibility report is still mandatory, the regional registration runs five years, fines under Decreto-ley 9/2024 reach 600,000 euros, and in a block the three fifths vote comes first. The map is still moving too: on 5 June 2026 the council gave initial approval to a permanent ordinance cutting urban-core licences from 639 to 344 from 2029. It is not final, it sits in public consultation, and we check the live position for the exact address before you commit money to it.
Tourist rental licences in Dénia: the zone map and our fixed feeOwning in Las Marinas (Les Marines), the tax side
Dénia does not collect its own bills. IBI, the waste charge and, when you sell, the plusvalía are all handled by SUMA, so the letters that matter arrive from SUMA rather than the town hall, and owners abroad misfile them constantly. None of that touches the national side: as a non-resident you file a Modelo 210 with the AEAT every year even when the apartment sits empty, on an imputed income of 1.1 per cent of the valor catastral if it was revised in the last ten years, otherwise 2 per cent, taxed at 19 per cent for EU and EEA residents and 24 per cent for everyone else, the UK included. We confirm the band against your IBI receipt.
Modelo 210 in Dénia: what non-resident owners file, and our feeLas Marinas (Les Marines): questions buyers actually ask
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