The Supreme Court has annulled the Single Rental Registry, the state census managed by the Property Registrars that collects short-term rentals, considering that the State does not have the authority to create it. The Contentious-Administrative Chamber considers that this procedure created by the Ministry of Housing in response to the uncontrolled growth of tourist apartments and the real estate crisis overlaps with the regional registries where landlords register this type of housing.
This state census came into effect in July 2025 and requires identifying and controlling homes rented to tourists on platforms like Airbnb or Booking, but also any other property marketed as a seasonal rental. A process, managed by the Property Registrars, that had to assess whether the homes met the legal requirements to be marketed online, which sparked an intense legal battle initiated by several autonomous communities, such as the Canary Islands, Murcia, the Valencian Government, and Andalusia, as well as vacation rental associations from Barcelona, Girona, and the Canary Islands.
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In the ruling, which was made public this Thursday, the high court partially upheld the appeal filed by the Valencian Administration and annulled only the provisions of the royal decree approved on December 23, 2024, that gave rise to the single registry. However, it keeps in force everything related to the so-called Digital Single Window for Rentals, the obligations to transmit data from online platforms, and the transmission of data for statistical purposes.
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