The single registry of short-term rentals (tourist, seasonal or room rentals) will enter into force on January 2 and its application will be effective as of July 1, 2025, once the transition period for companies and administrations to adapt to the provisions is over.
To this end, the Council of Ministers has approved this Monday the royal decree regulating the procedure for the single registry of rentals and creating the digital one-stop shop for the collection and exchange of data relating to short-term accommodation rental services. Once this measure is published in the Official State Gazette (BOE), which seeks to tackle illegal tourist apartments and the fraud that is currently taking place in these modalities, Spain will become the first country in the European Union to implement this European regulation. Until the approval of a sanctioning regime for the infractions derived from this regulation, the sanctioning regimes and obligations contemplated in the state, autonomic and local regulations will be applicable. The new regulation applies to tourist rentals, seasonal rentals, rentals of rooms or other properties that allow short-term accommodation and that entail an economic remuneration, provided that they are offered through online platforms.
What it establishes
The Royal Decree defines what a short term rental is, its different formulas and the natural or legal persons involved in these operations, as well as the platforms where they operate. It establishes a series of obligations and regulations on information that apply to short-term accommodation rental services and includes both those provided by the platforms to hosts, regardless of the place of establishment of the same, and the rental services provided by the hosts. This regulation creates a digital gateway for the electronic transmission of data between the platforms and the competent authorities, as well as for reporting on the different uses, regulations and destinations.
48 hours to remove ads
Platforms must comply within 48 hours with administrative resolutions ordering the elimination or disabling of ads linked to a suspended or withdrawn registration number. In addition, the platforms are obliged to ensure that landlords identify their properties with this number in their applications, to guarantee that landlords can include it in the advertisements and that it is visible; to carry out random and periodic checks and report when they are negative; to inform landlords of the registration procedure or to collect and transmit monthly activity data per unit. Landlords, for their part, are obliged to obtain a registration number, to communicate it to the platforms, to provide the required information, to respond to requests for information and to update it if there are changes. Each dwelling may only have one registration number per category and type of lease and its assignment will correspond to the Property or Movable Property Registry.
