Housing has already requested the withdrawal of greater than 86,000 ads for vacationer flats with out official registration numbers | Housing | Economy | EUROtoday

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda has requested actual property portals to take away greater than 86,000 ads for vacationer and seasonal flats as a result of they don’t meet the necessities established by regulation for such a lodging. This determine represents the whole rely of claims posted on totally different platforms since January of final yr, when the state registration of such a property started, as confirmed by the division headed by Isabel Rodríguez. The ads discuss with properties which have requested the short-term rental registration quantity, however haven’t obtained it as a result of they haven’t met the mandatory necessities to acquire this license.

The single registration of vacationer and seasonal leases got here into pressure on January 2, 2025 and requires homeowners to course of a registration quantity on the Digital Single Window for Rentals earlier than promoting their house on digital platforms. Although the rule started to function at the moment, the duty to have this credential didn’t start till July 1 of that very same yr, since a transitional interval was established. However, from twelve months in the past till at the moment, Housing has situated a complete of 86,275 properties marketed on totally different portals that lack the related registration quantity regardless of having requested it.

The necessities that should be met to acquire this important numbering require the homeowners to offer the cadastral reference, tackle, distinctive license plate, sort of rental and deliberate occupancy of the property. They should even have the licenses required by regional or municipal rules resembling tourism, habitability or city planning. Once they obtain the registration quantity, it should seem in all printed ads, whereas they need to hold the information up to date if related features of the property or its rental regime change.

In the final twelve months, 412,253 registration requests have been acquired, largely akin to vacationer leases (320,620, 78%); whereas the remaining 91,608, 22%, needed to do with non-tourist leases (that’s, seasonal). A ministerial spokesperson acknowledges that almost all of rejected requests and, consequently, detected irregular ads occurred from July onwards. In reality, Housing acknowledged having rejected nearly 35,000 trip flats between July and August of the 69,000 that attempted to register. “Once this Ministry notifies, the different platforms that operate in this sector must proceed to the mandatory withdrawal of advertisements related to these properties, which may be marketed on several of them at the same time,” Rodríguez’s division defined in an announcement.

Most of the rejected requests got here from properties situated in Andalusia (21,872), which heads the record, forward of the Valencian Community (14,387) and the Canary Islands (13,726). However, Madrid – fourth within the territorial classification, with 21,978 of the 26,355 functions acquired for seasonal lodging and 4,377 for vacationer lodging – is the municipality with probably the most denials (5,344), forward of Barcelona (5,005) and Málaga (2,993). These three cities are historically very popular spots by way of focus of vacationer housing.

“Thanks to the impetus of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda, the mandatory registration of short-term accommodation is already operating with the aim of pursuing and putting an end to fraud in short-term rentals while activating other mechanisms so that these homes can be incorporated into the residential rental market,” Rodríguez’s division defends within the assertion. Some of those flats could also be marketed for a time period as a result of, earlier than acquiring the ultimate registration quantity, they’re assigned a short lived one.

Monitoring and surveillance

The data supplied by actual property portals resembling Idealista, Fotocasa or Airbnb is being monitored and monitored by totally different organizations. The Ministry of Consumer Affairs not too long ago introduced the opening of an investigation into these platforms after verifying that varied printed claims didn’t adjust to the Housing Law for being supplied at costs that exceeded these allowed within the areas declared as burdened. According to the ministry, these practices may very well be violations of client rules as they’re “unfair because they are deceptive”, and the minister, Pablo Bustinduy, then burdened that they may search to “guarantee the correct application of the housing law, fight against the proliferation of illegal tourist apartments and eradicate fraudulent and abusive practices by real estate companies.”

In its battle in opposition to these practices, Consumption has already fined different firms, resembling Airbnb, on which it imposed a high quality of 64 million euros in December final yr for permitting flats to be marketed on its portal regardless of not having a license. This was the second largest high quality imposed by Consumer Affairs on a single firm, after the 108 million that have been imposed on Ryanair in November 2024 for abusive practices resembling charging extra charges for hand baggage. Another firm that’s on a sanction discover is Seguro Rental, which is accused of violating client rights, and which faces a high quality of three.6 million euros.