Politics · Spain · 5 hrs ago
Spain asks two rental platforms to remove 8,352 tourism listings
Spain’s consumer affairs ministry has asked two holiday-rental platforms to remove 8,352 listings it says break the rules.
The listings are in Spain, and the ministry says 7,199 are on one platform and 1,153 on the other.
Some listings have no registration number, while others use false ones: 7,227 fall into the first group and 1,125 into the second.
The ministry says the false numbers are expired and relate to room rentals, even though the listings offer entire homes.
The registration details are meant to distinguish lawful tourist rentals from other types of letting.
In an earlier case, one platform blocked 4,443 listings in Madrid for users in Spain, but they remained visible from other countries.
The ministry has given Madrid’s city government details so it can seek to block those listings abroad under European rules.
Spain’s consumer ministry has asked two rental platforms to remove 8,352 tourism listings it says lack valid registration details.
The ministry counted 7,199 listings on one platform and 1,153 on the other, whose names were not disclosed.
Of the listings, 7,227 had no registration number and 1,125 used a false number.
The ministry also said 4,443 listings in Madrid, previously blocked in Spain, remained visible to users connecting from abroad.
It has asked Madrid’s city government to seek the listings’ removal from outside Spain.
- Who
- Spain’s Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs and Agenda 2030 asked two unnamed rental platforms to remove listings.
- What
- The ministry identified 8,352 tourism listings it said breached regulations by lacking valid registration details.
- When
- The request was made on Thursday, 12 November 2026.
- Where
- The listings were on two rental platforms; a separate set of 4,443 listings was in Madrid.
- Why
- The ministry said the listings were advertised without a registration number or with a false one.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
The ministry told one platform it had identified 4,443 allegedly unlawful listings in Madrid.
The platform blocked those listings in Spain, but they remained visible from abroad.
The ministry asked two platforms to remove 8,352 listings and wrote to Madrid’s city government about the Madrid listings.
- Total listings
- 8,352
- First platform
- 7,199 listings
- Second platform
- 1,153 listings
- Listings without registration numbers
- 7,227
- Listings with false registration numbers
- 1,125
- Madrid listings visible from abroad
- 4,443