Can holiday flats in Granadilla de Abona now be let freely?

That is not established. According to ASCAV, the TSJC annulled the ordenanza, but finality, an appeal and any new rules are open. Most sources say the regional law Ley 6/2025 has applied since 13 December 2025.

Do I need to change my booking in Granadilla de Abona as a holidaymaker?

No effect on guests, prices or bookings is documented. If in doubt, ask your landlord.

Who brought the case against the ordenanza?

The Asociación Canaria del Alquiler Vacacional (ASCAV) brought it, having announced its claim in August 2025. According to the association, the TSJC sided with it.

What rules did the annulled ordenanza contain?

New holiday flats were to be possible only on ground and first floors of buildings with their own entrance, or in isolated buildings outside built-up areas. They were banned in protected or subsidised housing and in tense areas.

Does the ruling affect other municipalities on Tenerife?

That is not established. ASCAV considers the ruling a possible precedent and calls it the first of its kind in the Canary Islands; neither claim has been independently confirmed.

Tenerife: court scraps Granadilla holiday rental rules

What changes for guests, landlords and buyers?

Holidaymakers have so far noticed nothing: no effect on bookings, prices or cancellations is documented. Anyone who has booked in Granadilla de Abona should ask the landlord directly if in doubt.

Landlords are likely to feel the ruling first. ASCAV sees it as a route for owners who were already letting before the ordenanza took effect, and says the rules curbed their rights.

The report mentions no new rules for anyone wanting to buy a flat in Granadilla for holiday letting. Whether any will come, and whether a cut-off date applies to existing or new holiday flats, is still open.

Legal uncertainty hangs over landlords in the municipality, the report says. The only point on record is ASCAV's account that the ordenanza no longer has effect.

Why did the court overturn the ordenanza?

The TSJC declared the municipality's “Ordenanza Provisional” invalid, siding with ASCAV. The association had argued that the procedure was flawed.

According to ASCAV, the town hall skipped a key step: the strategic environmental assessment (evaluación ambiental estratégica). Without it, the rule is “nula de pleno derecho”, meaning void from the outset.

In August 2025, ASCAV announced its claim on a different argument: it called the ordenanza void because the restrictions were not justified. It cited case law of the Tribunal Supremo (Spain's Supreme Court) and the principle of proportionality.

ASCAV calls the ruling especially important because, it says, it is the first on this topic in the Canary Islands. That is the association's view, as is its claim that the ruling could set a precedent for other cases.

What did the ordenanza in Granadilla de Abona regulate?

The municipal plenary council passed the rules unanimously in October 2024. According to the notice in the provincial gazette (BOP) on the town hall's transparency portal, the final text followed on 27 February 2025.

New holiday flats were to be allowed only on the ground and first floors of buildings with their own entrance. Isolated buildings outside built-up areas were also allowed, though reports do not word this rule consistently.

Holiday flats were banned in properties “fuera de ordenación” (outside the planning), in protected or publicly subsidised housing and in “zonas tensionadas”. An area counts as tense when housing supply is too tight, rents exceed 30% of average local income and prices rise faster than regional inflation.

Granadilla had 1,918 homes for holiday letting, about 9% of its housing stock, according to reports on the decision. The figure has no cut-off date or official source, so it remains unchecked.

Promotur puts Granadilla's share of Tenerife's holiday homes at about 6% in September 2025 and about 7% in February 2026, based on ISTAC data. It gives no exact figure for the municipality.

How does the ruling fit with the new Canary Islands law?

The regional law Ley 6/2025 of 10 December 2025 replaces Decreto 113/2015. Most sources give 13 December 2025 as its start date.

It appeared in the BOC (Canary Islands official gazette) no. 246 on 12 December 2025. The BOE (Spain's state gazette) followed in no. 308 on 23 December 2025.

According to summaries of the law, a home may be used for tourism only if local planning expressly allows it. Councils must therefore decide for themselves where holiday letting is permitted.

Sources contradict each other on the percentage caps, and none has been checked against the legal text. Figures on the transition period for existing holiday flats also differ.

Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, director general for tourism regulation, announced a model ordenanza that councils can request. How the ruling sits with the new law is not yet clear.

In March 2024 the plenary council decided to seek “zona tensionada” status under the state law Ley 12/2023. Granadilla also commissioned the Universidad de La Laguna for a first housing diagnosis due in about a month, reports of 3 June 2026 said.

What is still open?

Key documents are still missing: the date of the ruling, the case number and the wording of the judgment. There is also no reaction from the town hall or from mayor Jennifer Miranda (PSOE).

Whether the council will lodge a cassation appeal is open, as are the deadline and the date the ruling becomes final. No source gave dates.

Miranda had earlier turned to the regional government. Through the municipalities' association FECAM, she asked for a moratorium on holiday letting and an inspection unit for illegal building.

Owners and prospective buyers should wait for the text of the ruling, which the TSJC press office or the CENDOJ case-law database could supply. Until then, everything rests on the account of the claimant association.