The Spanish government gave the owners of all short-term and temporary lets until July 1st to register their properties on the new State platform in order to continue operating, but more than 150,000 have not done so before the deadline.
As of July 1st 2025, all landlords who want to let out their properties out as tourist or seasonal rentals in Spain must have registered on the Single Rental Registry or if not remove their listings from platforms such as Airbnb, Idealista or Booking.com.
But on the last day landlords had to register their properties on the new platform, 215,438 applications had been received out of a total 368,295 homes that Spain’s National Statistics Institute (INE) identifies as short-term or temporary lets.
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Short-term lets are deemed to be those that are let out for under a month, while temporary or seasonal ones run from one to month to under a year, in order to not be regulated under long-term rental rules.
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This means that 152,857 now will technically no longer be able to be legally rented out to tourists or on a temporary basis.
The latest data from Spain’s Ministry of Housing shows that of the 215,438 already registered, 94,209 have been approved, 15,275 applications have been denied, and 102,732 are provisionally activated and pending approval.
This means that currently only 25.6 percent of the entire tourist and temporary accommodation market in Spain has authorisation to operate and is therefore illegal. Currently, a total of 74.4 percent are not able to do so.
The registry was first announced by the Spanish government back in October 2024 due to the fact that European regulations now require all accommodation that isn’t long-term to have an identification number by July 1st 2025.
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The aim of this is regulate the sector’s activity to combat fraud and put a stop to the proliferation of unlicenced tourist apartments that have proliferated in many Spanish cities in recent years.
Landlords have a period of 15 business days in which to assign a code from the registry to their properties or remove the advertisements for the accommodation.
More than three out of every four active applications are concentrated in five regions.
Andalusia tops the list with 49,397 registrations, the majority of them in the province of Málaga.
This followed by the Canary Islands, with 16,719 properties registered in Gran Canaria and 13,341 in Tenerife.
Catalonia has 27,818 registrations, especially in areas with the highest tourist concentration – Barcelona (9,521), Tarragona (6,659), and Girona (9,521).
Valencia region has a total of 21,930 applications, distributed between Valencia city (4,506), Alicante (14,515), and Castellón (2,909).
Madrid is the region with the fewest short-term and temporary lets registered on the new government platform, with only 1 in 10.
The Spanish Federation of Tourist Housing and Apartment Associations (Fevitur) already warned about this issue of non-registrations, predicting that 70 percent of the current supply would be left out, causing losses of around €13 billion to the economy between July and December.
A similar organisation, the Federation of Associations of Owners of Vacation and Temporary Rentals (Favapa), has also claimed that the new registration of short-term and temporary rentals is “a legal monster” that will 90 percent of small landlords out of the market while benefiting investment funds.
