Mallorca holiday rental tourists face potential misery
New registry will eliminate 70% of properties
Some holidaymakers could be in for a shock this summer | Photo: Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter
Palma16/06/2025 12:14
On 1 July, European regulations governing short-term rentals will come into force in Spain, including a single register for short lets and it is feared that the new regulations could exclude 70% of the current supply and cause losses of 13.737 billion euros for the economy between July and December, according to a warning issued on Monday by the Spanish Federation of Tourist Housing and Apartment Associations (Fevitur).
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Morgan WilliamsWhat the authorities need to do is publish a monthly scorecard of properties identified as being let, properties registered, and fines meted out to those who operate illegally. Plus fines need to be levied on the so-called ‘marketplaces’ (like AirBnB and Vrbo) that facilitate the crimes. They choose to hide behind being intermediaries and in the modern world where the bulk of business is conducted through such ‘intermediaries’ this blatant support of criminal activity needs to be punished. Just like eBay selling counterfeit and dangerous Chinese crap etc. As ever, these administrative overheads do nothing to deter the criminals, just as the utterly pointless GDPR process did nothing to prevent scams, identity theft and so on, unless they assume sharp teeth and bite hard. If the authorities wished to show real willing to address at least one major issue, they could start winning some respect from the islanders whose lives are being adversely impacted by illegals.
Marvin Le MartianI agree. I registered. It was a bit of a struggle, but done. Some stupidity in it, but it's just another thing. It works. The big question is how do 70% of legally operating tourist lets get denied? Because they didn't register? Why didn't they? Because the only place you find this info is in the media? No government message ever goes out. It's up to the owner to figure it out. Or is it because 70% are "illegal" in the first place? Although nobody can provide any verifiable numbers representing the number of illegal lets. And as hard as they try, the numbers they offer are always questionable, and they can't seem to find more than one or two per month. Funny that. I'm leaning toward this story being yet another non-story about something that doesn't actually exist.
LovedSollerThey can, as I have but you need to provide a lot more information, Cadastral, Cédula de habitage and other bits and pieces. Airbnb request info including tax ID but don’t yet seem to exclude listings that don’t provide it. Makes you think, what’s the point?
Why can legal properties not be registered in the new/additional system?
Round and round the mulberry bush...
Yet another mind-boggling, bureaucratic maze to negotiate (and have) but I bet that the illegals will still find a way to operate under the radar, because that is what they have already been doing. If this isn’t followed up with people being fined (anyone know for a fact of someone having been fined yet? ) then it will just continue as before. They aren’t paying taxes or will be insured either, or be up to standards that are expected and inspected on. So in reality they aren’t really contributing enormous amounts to the economy either. That’s not to say that they don’t need the money. We all do.