The Junta de Andalucía (Andalusian location government) has said that it has made important advancement successful regulating tourer rental properties, pinch complete 9,200 homes already removed from nan Andalusian Tourism Registry successful 2024 and nan first half of 2025, meaning they must now close.
The crackdown, which is underway successful adjacent collaboration pinch section councils, intends to power and organise what is seen arsenic nan maturation of acold excessively galore tourer accommodations crossed nan region.
The cancellations, by province, see 670 properties successful Almería, 1,064 successful Cádiz, 620 successful Córdoba, 1,674 successful Granada, 389 successful Huelva, 283 successful Jaén, 3,426 successful Malaga, and 1,087 successful Seville. The roar successful this type of tourism and nan emergence of online booking platforms, arsenic good arsenic permissive European regulations, person led to a crisp summation successful tourer rentals, which request stricter oversight.
New registration rule – excessive tourer rentals to close
Supported by nan caller rule decree 31/2024, which amends regulations for tourer homes, apartments, and hotels successful Andalusia, and backed by rulings from nan European Court of Justice, nan ruling allows councils to enforce limits connected nan number of tourer rentals per building, neighbourhood, aliases district, provided nan restrictions are made clear, objective, justified and successful nan nationalist interest.
As well, nan rule enables nan location tourism authority to found partnerships pinch different administrations aliases backstage entities to amended accusation sharing and guarantee compliance pinch regulations. The collaborations are besides making it imaginable to trim nan clip it takes connected inspections carried retired by nan Andalusian authorities and different authorities.
While due regularisation has been slow successful coming, nan roar successful this type of tourism reflects a alteration successful preferences pinch consumers. In nan Costa del Sol, edifice bookings are reported to beryllium somewhat down successful 2025 pinch much holidaymakers preferring to enactment successful nan much elastic AirBnB-style apartments successful nan bosom of authentic Spain alternatively than successful much impersonal hotels. The adjacent measurement for nan authorities will beryllium to accommodate for this alteration successful tastes.