Landlord compliance, without the paperwork fog

Rent out professionally. Keep the legal trail as tidy as the listing.

ClickProperty is built around the full tenancy record — property, applicant, agreed terms, contract, deposit status and evidence — so important obligations are not left in scattered emails.

Start as a landlord See the compliance checklist

Before you list

Four checks prevent a surprising amount of trouble.

Spanish residential letting rules are not one single checklist, but these national requirements are a sensible starting point before a habitual-home tenancy is advertised or signed.

Prepare accurate property information

Keep ownership or authority to let, property details, rent, included costs and any material conditions consistent from advert to contract.

Evidence and contract consistency

Have the energy information ready

Rental advertising must include the property’s energy-efficiency rating. For an existing property, the energy label is annexed to the tenancy contract and the tenant receives the user recommendations document.

Royal Decree 390/2021, Articles 15 and 17

Separate landlord costs from agreed tenant costs

Real-estate management and contract-formalisation costs are for the landlord. Other non-individualised property costs can only be passed to the tenant when validly agreed in writing with the annual amount stated.

LAU Article 20

Plan the statutory deposit before signing

A habitual residential tenancy requires a cash deposit equal to one month of rent. The autonomous community may also require the landlord to lodge that deposit with its designated body.

LAU Article 36 + Additional Provision 3

Rent, charges and security

Make every euro explainable.

The contract should make it obvious what the tenant pays, what the landlord pays and what is security rather than rent. These are the national baseline rules for habitual residential tenancies.

No more than one month of rent in advance

The landlord cannot require advance payment of more than one monthly rent instalment.

LAU Article 17.2

One month statutory cash deposit

At the start of a residential lease, the statutory cash deposit is one month of rent.

LAU Article 36.1

Additional security has a limit in standard terms

For housing contracts of up to five years, or seven years where the landlord is a legal person, additional guarantees cannot exceed two months of rent.

LAU Article 36.5

Management and contract costs stay with the landlord

Real-estate management costs and the costs of formalising the housing contract are borne by the landlord.

LAU Article 20.1

Deposit discipline Collect it, record it, then check the regional rule.

Spain’s Urban Leases Act allows autonomous communities to require statutory deposits to be lodged with the competent public body. There is no honest one-registry answer for the whole country.

1 Record the statutory deposit separately from rent. 2 Identify the autonmous community for the property. 3 Follow the applicable regional lodging and return process, keeping proof.

The next ClickProperty compliance layer is jurisdiction-aware regional deposit guidance. Until then, this page deliberately flags the regional step rather than pretending it is uniform.

During the tenancy

Professional management is mostly evidence plus timely action.

The same record that gets the tenancy started should make the ongoing duties easier to see and prove.

Keep the home habitable

The landlord must carry out repairs needed to keep the dwelling fit for the agreed use, without increasing the rent for that reason, unless the deterioration is attributable to the tenant.

LAU Article 21.1

Distinguish repairs from ordinary-use wear

Small repairs required by ordinary wear from use are borne by the tenant, while necessary habitability repairs remain the landlord’s responsibility.

LAU Article 21.4

Use traceable rent payments and receipts

Rent is generally paid electronically. Where the agreed payment method does not itself evidence payment, the landlord must provide a receipt showing the amounts paid by concept.

LAU Article 17.3–4

Put the tenancy terms in writing

Either party can require a written contract stating the parties, property, duration, initial rent and other agreed clauses.

LAU Article 37

Safeguards, not theatre

A good platform should help prove what happened.

ClickProperty’s landlord journey is organised around records that matter if a question appears later — not badges that merely look reassuring.

Property record

Keep listing facts, rent and property data attached to one home rather than recreating them at each step.

Application record

Keep applicant information and the selection trail attached to the tenancy decision.

Contract record

Keep the agreed terms and signed contract connected to the same property and people.

Deposit + compliance record

Record deposit status and the evidence behind required actions so follow-up does not depend on memory.

Ready to let

Start with the property. Build the tenancy record from there.

No admin maze before you need one. Begin the landlord journey and add the details required to move the property safely toward a tenancy.

Start landlord journey

This page is practical platform guidance, not individual legal advice. Rules can depend on tenancy type, contract date, landlord status, property location and autonomous-community law. ClickProperty links the official sources and dates its legal review.