Housing and Airbnb agree to remove codeless listings and send monthly data starting in August.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda agreed this Tuesday with Airbnb to identify and remove tourist apartment listings that do not have a legal registration code on the platform , according to both entities in separate statements. In a meeting held at the ministry's headquarters, the company has committed since August to submitting monthly information on the listings advertised on its platform.

As agreed, Airbnb will remove listings that present irregularities in the national registry, as required by the regulation since July 1. In these cases, the platform will notify hosts in advance, offering them a period of time to correct the defects before proceeding with the final removal, unless it results from a revocation of the state registration number, in which case it will occur within 48 hours of the Ministry's notification, according to Airbnb.

Furthermore, as both Vivienda and Airbnb have announced, starting in August 2025, the platform will send Isabel Rodríguez 's department the information required by regulations on a monthly basis, including the corresponding state and regional registration numbers, depending on the type of listing advertised by the hosts. Currently, Airbnb has a mandatory box on the platform for hosts to include a valid registration number, preferably the new national registration. In the coming days, this system will be replaced by two separate boxes, one for the national registration number and another for the regional registration number, according to the American booking platform.

Airbnb sources also emphasized to this newspaper that the agreement "signifies" a paradigm shift "in the way we work with the authorities and was created with the goal of collaborating with them and strengthening transparency in short-term rentals." This was also highlighted this Tuesday by Jaime Rodríguez de Santiago , Airbnb's general manager for Spain, who emphasized that "the company will continue working to contribute to more responsible and sustainable tourism throughout Spain, supporting thousands of families who share their homes and safely generate additional income."

The single registry of tourist and seasonal rentals, the result of Royal Decree 1312/2024, which created the digital one-stop shop, became mandatory on July 1 , six months after it came into force at the beginning of the year.

This regulation is a consequence of Regulation (EU) 2024/1028 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024, which is directly applicable in the Member States and establishes a system for regulating short-term rentals of furnished housing.

According to data from the Ministry of Housing, the day before the new regulation came into effect, more than 215,000 short-term rentals had requested their registration numbers from the various Property Registries throughout the country. Of that number, 94,209 had been permanently activated, 102,732 were provisionally activated, and 15,275 had been revoked.