WHY ADVERTISE WITH US?
Ours is the only online advertising portal dedicated to properties in Minerva and Jupiter.
We bought the domain names www.minervaapartments.com and www.minervapartments.co.uk in 2003 after buying our first studio in Minerva. Since then, we have used the sites to advertise our studios and those of friends and family. We soon realised how valuable these websites were when the enquiries came flooding in. In fact, almost 70% of our rental business came from enquiries through these 2 sites - more than Holidaylettings, Owners Direct, TripAdvisor and HomeAway - and without all the hassle. Believe me, we know - we spent a fortune over the years paying for ads with all those sites.
TOP LISTING IN SEARCH ENGINES
Minerva and Jupiter are such well-known and well-loved urbanisations that if potential customers type ´Minerva apartment Benalmadena´ or anything similar into any of the top search engines, our website always comes up within the first few listings (after the subscription adverts):
4th on Google
1st on Bing! and Yippy
Have a go for yourself! It´s pretty impressive. And as we all know, people rarely move on from Page One of a search engine.
BUT I ALREADY ADVERTISE ON THE BIG SITES
Although most of these sites are now commission-only, they can work out more expensive for both the holiday maker and the owner with the fees that they charge. And...they don't allow you direct contact with your client - all correspondance must go through their websites.
New regulations have made short term rentals in Spain far more complicated and restrictive. As of 2018, all the 'collaborative platforms' that process payments on behalf of owners like AirBnb, HomeAway, Owners Direct, TripAdvisor etc have to be more transparent. They now have to make quarterly declarations to Hacienda (Spanish Inland Revenue) giving details of all payments made to individual property owners. It's Hacienda's way of checking what income tax is being paid (or not!) by property owners.
As it stands, owners cannot advertise their property on these sites without providing a valid registration number. Soon these sites will be asking for more personal details so they can file the quarterly declaration (Modelo 790). If the figures they provide to Hacienda don't match with what owners themselves declare, there could be large fines to pay!
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