Spain orders Airbnb to block 65,000 holiday rentals over rule violations
https://apnews.com/article/airbnb-spain-rental-listing-a91e605f6342db1b169d4f9d1681e9d4
Posted by adriano26
Spain orders Airbnb to block 65,000 holiday rentals over rule violations
https://apnews.com/article/airbnb-spain-rental-listing-a91e605f6342db1b169d4f9d1681e9d4
Posted by adriano26
16 Comments
This is part of the way
Hopefully that’s correct
Great, still nto enough to fix the market, but great. The owners need to enter a list too to be sure they are not offering services by other ways.
It is necessary, it cannot be that to live in Madrid they offer me a room without windows for €600
F*ck Airbnb
I’m sure the hotel market in Madrid won’t see this as quick and easy way to grab cash s/.
A shock to the supply side like this will only rapidly escalate the remaining rentals and hotels further out of reach.
Removing 65,000 Airbnb units and converting them to long-term rentals in Spain sounds impactful, but it’s just 3–4% of the total housing needed (estimates say Spain needs 1.5–2 million homes).
It might slightly ease pressure in tourist-heavy cities like Barcelona or Madrid, but it’s not a structural solution. It’s more of a populist measure — politically popular, easy to implement, but ultimately limited in scope.
Real change requires serious investment in affordable housing, better urban planning, and long-term rental incentives. Otherwise, the housing crisis will persist regardless of Airbnb regulations.
It would be more if it was easier to complain.
Therw is a tourist apartment near me. Every weekend banging music at 6-7am as they return from the club.
The webpage to denounce requires a specific version of adobe to function.
Tourists in hotels. Residents in residential buildings.
If that doesn’t suit you, go somewhere else and tell your friends to do the same.
We need to cut tourist numbers by at least 20% to recover some of the quality of life we’ve lost.
Banning tourist apartaments is a great first step.
Guiris: dont waste your tme talking about GDP as you absolutely love to do in these conversations. It means nothing to us. Go away and eat your processed slop . We know youre hungry.
Poor Fran and Marta, the lovely Spanish couple who earned a few extra euros a month by renting one of the 500 flats they own in Madrid…
Fabulous
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I’ve always done my part by only booking at hostals and hotels. I’ve never stayed in an AirBnb. No thanks.
Its a normal movement that must have been done much earlier. In this regard how can anyone think about over 60k bars, discos, cafeterias or any kind of business operating without a license? Its just hilarious. And Airbnb is also guilty, because has been making millions of euros listing illegal flats…so im missing also a fine in addition to the delisting…
Well, its a nice starting point.
Maybe, people do not understand what is happening in spain. But we have been living a horrible rent price for the last 10++ years, renting a flat is near impossible in most turistic cities.
The owners prefer to rent the flats for 2000+ € to tourists and many spanish people can not even afford the rent.
The typicall “one adult works while the other one takes care of the children” is basically impossible nowadays.
The minimum salary which is very common in spain, is ~1100€. And renting a flat for a family in most cities is at least 850€ because of this owners renting to tourists via AirBnB (which is actually not very legal, as you can see).
With only one salary, families can not even live properly. 2 salaries is compulsory at least, and in any case, rent price is completly crazy.
That’s great and all on paper. In practice, let’s see how it turns out. It will not stop until Spain declares Airbnb completely illegal no matter where or how or why. If a residential property cannot turn into a business without a business license, I don’t see why or how it can behave like a hotel.
10-year net migration trend as per INE:
2015: +15K
2016: +90K
2017: +160K
2018: +330K
2019: +450K
2020: +250K (pandemic)
2021: +300K
2022: +727K
2023: +642K
2024: +458K