Overview

• Since July 1, Spain’s national short-term rental registry has processed over 215,000 applications.
• Galicia experienced a nearly 20% surge in registration requests during the first five days of mandatory listing.
• Barcelona landlords have submitted almost 9,400 listings to the digital portal, including 6,199 with validated codes and 3,195 provisional registrations.
• Rental platforms are required to delist any listing without a valid registration code within 48 hours or face fines ranging from €2,000 to €500,000.
• Authorities have begun random inspections of short-term rentals and industry group Apartur has appealed the registry for duplicating regional systems and imposing extra bureaucratic steps.