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Short-term and room rentals made up 55.8% of Spanish capital listings
A Spanish Ministry of Consumer Affairs study found that rooms and seasonal lets made up 55.8% of rental listings in the country’s capitals between March and September.
Rooms accounted for 47.7% of listings and seasonal rentals for 8.1%, while 44.2% were homes offered for regular residence.
The study examined 381,997 listings on Idealista across 53 capitals.
Madrid and Barcelona had 45.5% of seasonal rental listings identified in the study.
In nine cities designated as stressed housing markets, there were about 31 seasonal listings for every 100 residential ones, compared with nine per 100 in other cities.
The researchers say seasonal contracts may have been used to avoid some rules and tenant protections that applied to ordinary rentals.
An October decree tightens the conditions for seasonal lets, and it is due to face parliamentary validation soon.
Short-term and room rentals made up 55.8% of rental listings in Spain’s capital cities between March and September, according to a Ministry of Consumer Affairs study.
The study examined 381,997 listings on Idealista across 53 capitals.
Rooms accounted for 47.7% of listings and short-term rentals for 8.1%, while 44.2% were homes offered for ordinary residential rent.
Madrid and Barcelona together had 45.5% of the short-term rental listings identified.
The report says the figures are consistent with the possibility that some short-term rentals were used to avoid rules applying to ordinary residential rentals.
- Who
- The Spanish Ministry of Consumer Affairs commissioned the study, coordinated by housing researcher Javier Gil.
- What
- The study found that short-term and room rentals made up 55.8% of rental listings in Spain’s capital cities.
- When
- The listings were published between March and September, in the six months before the new rules took effect.
- Where
- The study covered 53 Spanish capital cities and listings on Idealista.
- Why
- The report says some short-term rentals may have been used to avoid rules applying to ordinary residential rentals.
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The study period covered 381,997 rental listings on Idealista in 53 Spanish capital cities.
A housing decree was approved that tightened the conditions for short-term rentals.
- Share of all listings
- 55.8% were room or short-term rentals.
- Listings analysed
- 381,997 on Idealista.
- Cities covered
- 53 Spanish capitals.
- Room listings
- 47.7% of all listings.
- Short-term listings
- 8.1% of all listings.
- Madrid and Barcelona
- Together accounted for 45.5% of short-term listings.