The Spanish government is requesting the removal of 2,373 illegal tourist apartment listings in the Balearic Islands.
The island municipalities with the highest number of rejected applications are Ciutadella, San José de sa Talaia and Santa Margalida.
PalmThe Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda has detected 2,373 illegal tourist apartments in the Balearic Islands and has demanded that digital platforms remove the online advertisements for these accommodations. These are apartments that have applied for the mandatory registration number since last July, but have not obtained it because they do not meet the legal requirements, according to a press release from the Ministry headed by Isabel Rodríguez.
Now, the different platforms will have to remove the advertisements for these properties, which are being marketed on several platforms simultaneously. The island municipalities with the highest number of rejected applications are Ciutadella (299 applications revoked), Sant Josep de sa Talaia (178), and Santa Margalida (133). They are followed by Santanyí, with 117; Mercadal, with 96, and Palma, with 54.
According to the Ministry, Spain has become the first country in Europe to implement the Single Registry of Temporary Accommodation, in collaboration with the College of Registrars, to put an end to fraud in tourist rentals. Thus, through the Digital One-Stop Shop of the Ministry of Housing, the registry data is cross-referenced with that of the digital platforms, which are collaborating to identify advertisements without a code.
Since it began operating on January 1, the registry has received a total of 336,497 applications, of which 264,998 (78.75%) correspond to tourist rentals. Of these, 53,786 were revoked (20.3%).
If a code is revoked, it means that the College of Registrars has received the request, that this request contained incomplete data or did not comply with the current regulations for the type of activity intended to be carried out, and that it was not corrected in a timely manner. With the registry and the Digital One-Stop Shop, the Ministry headed by Isabel Rodríguez seeks to "preserve the social function of housing and combat illegal tourist apartments, which expel families from neighborhoods and blur cities."
