Overview

• Judicial orders have led Airbnb and Booking.com to remove over 65,000 listings and put 55,000 more suspected illegal rentals under review
• Airbnb delisted 703 unregistered apartments in the Basque Country after a request from regional consumer watchdog Kontsumobide
• Barcelona detected 363 illicit tourist rentals in July, with 71% advertised as long-term leases to evade licensing requirements
• The anti-capitalist CUP filed 323 anonymous complaints with Catalan tax authorities targeting suspected unlicensed apartments
• Since July 1, the mandatory national registry has processed more than 215,000 applications and established penalties up to €600,000 for noncompliant hosts