Spain vows to show 50,000 vacationer lets into long-term leases

Spain’s Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda has knowledgeable vacation let platforms that there are an additional 50,876 unlawful lets on their websites and has requested that they be faraway from on-line listings.

Since July 1st 2025, all landlords in Spain who need to let loose their properties as vacationer or seasonal leases will need to have registered on the Spanish authorities’s Single Rental Registry.

Those who didn’t won’t have a compulsory registration quantity and due to this fact are banned from promoting their properties on on-line platforms.

Companies akin to Airbnb have been requested to take down any advertisements that should not have this quantity.

At a PSOE occasion in Málaga on Sunday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez acknowledged that these unlawful lets will now be rented “completely, by younger individuals and households in our nation.”

In essence, the Socialist-led authorities’s objective is for these properties to be integrated into the long-term residential rental market, though Sánchez didn’t state how this may be achieved.

Increasing regulation has backfired up to now, with many landlords preferring to depart their properties empty slightly than put them on the long-term market.

Since Spain’s Single Registry of Temporary Accommodation was launched at the beginning of 2025, 336,497 purposes have been registered, of which 264,998 (78.75 p.c) are for vacationer leases.

Of these, 53,786 vacation lets (20.3 p.c) have been rejected, which means that they’ll now not function as vacationer lets.

READ ALSO: Nearly half of Spain’s vacation lets not registered with authorities earlier than deadline

The cause for not registering or for having purposes rejected is commonly the truth that they’re working illegally. In Sánchez’s phrases, “1000’s of irregularities” are being dedicated.

Many declined purposes don’t meet the necessities for vacationer leases of their metropolis or area and haven’t been granted a vacationer licence with which to function.

This might point out the properties don’t have separate entrances, the native neighbours have voted in opposition to them, or that they’re positioned in historic central areas of cities the place licences are now not issued.  

Accommodation within the Spanish capital of Madrid might be notably affected as authorities have recognized a “main anomaly” within the registration course of, with 83 p.c of purposes for short-term registration and solely 17 p.c for vacationer leases.

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One third of the three,513 purposes for vacationer rental registrations in Madrid have been revoked as a consequence of non-compliance with the legislation.

Seville tops the record with 2,289 revoked purposes. This is adopted by Marbella with 1,802 and Barcelona with 1,564.

The areas with probably the most unlawful lets and due to this fact revoked purposes are Andalusia with 16,740, the Canary Islands with 8,698 and Catalonia with 7,729.

Back in May of this 12 months, Spain’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs ordered Airbnb to take down 66,000 vacation let advertisements for properties that had failed to offer their vacationer license on the advert.

At the time of the July deadline to register properties on the brand new system, information from Spain’s Ministry of Housing confirmed that solely 25.6 p.c of the complete vacationer and short-term lodging market in Spain had authorisation to function. This signifies that a whopping 74.4 p.c had been deemed to be unlawful.

It appears that many of those properties which had did not register didn’t the truth is take away them from promoting platforms, which means that they’re now being pressured to take action.

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Spain is within the midst of a extreme housing disaster with many unable to entry reasonably priced lodging. Many locals blame vacationer lodging for the skyrocketing costs and lack of availability. To try to resolve the state of affairs, the Spanish authorities, together with regional authorities, have been introducing measures to chop their numbers over the previous couple of years. 

European laws additionally now require all lodging that is not long-term to have an identification quantity.