Since the Royal Decree regulating the procedure for the Single Registry of Leases was approved and the **Digital Single Window** for the management of data related to short-term rentals, "a **double registration is imposed on owners of tourist homes in Spain**".
Thus denounces the Federation of Associations of Owners of Tourist Rental Housing (FAPAVAT), presided over by Doris Borrego.
Spain was the first country in the EU to adapt the community regulations that oblige the creation of a single registry of rentals of short duration. Since last July, said code has been mandatory, which is granted by the Property Registrars and which contains the regional number inside
The regulation came into force in January 2025 and requires all tourist homes and other temporary rentals to be registered in an "additional centralized system under the supervision of the Ministry of Housing", through the property registries
FAVAPAT underlines that this provision infringes European Union regulations, which prohibit the duplication of records, since tourist accommodations are already listed in regional registries. Therefore, "imposing a new registration at the state level contradicts European regulations, which take precedence over national laws".Now, the European Community itself, in a procedure for processing the Sustainable Tourism Law of Andalusia, "pronounces itself forcefully" and recalls that the European regulation "prohibits subjecting the same dwelling to more than one registration procedure when one already exists that is mandatory".
Therefore, according to FAVAPAT, Brussels urges the Spanish Government to eliminate that administrative duplication and gives it until May 20.
The Commission reminds the Spanish authorities that Community legislation requires that any registration procedure established by a Member State, whether at national, regional or local level, shall not be subject to more than one registration procedure.This decision has been especially celebrated by the Canary Association of Holiday Rentals (ASCAV), the main promoter of FAPAVAT, which considers this pronouncement a "boost" to the appeal it filed before the Supreme Court the day after the rule came into effect and which is in the phase of being seen for sentencingThey denounce that this situation is causing the "eradication of tourist homes" in the hands of thousands of private owners and management companies", which were fully legal."The Ministry of Housing itself has celebrated the removal of more than 86,000 tourist homes from intermediation platforms," they highlight
"Invasion of regional powers"
Likewise, they report that the double registration "violates the Spanish Constitution, by granting the central government powers that exclusively correspond to the autonomous communities" in the matter of regulating tourist accommodations. Furthermore, "delegating the verification of these homes to property registrars, who are dependent on the Ministry of Justice, is also 'an invasion of regional powers,' which generates a legal conflict"FAPAVAT clarifies that "it has never refused a regulation, nor a single registration" in Europe, nor any regulation that "gives legal certainty to the sector it defends," which is the private owner of tourist and short-term rental properties, as well as their local manager.
