The Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (MIVAU) has ordered digital platforms to remove the listings of 2,373 tourist apartments in the Balearic Islands that do not comply with the legal requirements for their tourist activity. This makes the Balearic Islands the sixth autonomous community with the most illegal tourist apartments, behind Andalusia (16,740), Canary Islands (8,698), Catalonia (7,729), Valencian Community (7,499) and Galicia (2,640).
These properties had applied for the mandatory registration number since 1 July, but their applications were revoked for containing incomplete data or not complying with current regulations, without being corrected within the required timeframe, according to the Ministry’s press release.
Now, the different platforms must remove the listings of these properties, which may be advertised on several of them simultaneously. The Government’s goal is to ensure that these apartments can enter the residential rental market while also preserving the social function of housing, preventing illegal tourist apartments from displacing families from their neighbourhoods and affecting the urban structure of cities.
More than 53,876 illegal tourist apartments in Spain
At a national level, MIVAU has notified a total of 53,876 illegal tourist apartments, after receiving a total of 336,497 registration applications for temporary accommodations since 1 January. Of these, 264,998 (78.75%) corresponded to tourist rentals and 53,786 were revoked (20.3%).
Spain has become the first country in Europe to implement a single register for temporary accommodations, promoted by the Minister of Housing and Urban Agenda, Isabel Rodríguez, in collaboration with the College of Registrars. Through the Digital One-Stop Window, the registry data is cross-checked with digital platforms, which collaborate by removing listings of properties that do not have the mandatory registration number.
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