The Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (MIVAU) has notified 53,876 illegal tourist apartments throughout Spain to digital platforms to remove online advertisements for these accommodations.
Among them, those located in the Canary Islands amount to 8,698. These are the apartments that have requested the registration number, mandatory since July 1, but have not obtained it because they do not meet the legal requirements.
By municipalities, there are two from Lanzarote among the six Canary municipalities with the most rejections. In Yaiza there are 442 apartments and in Tías 427.
The first in the Canary Islands is Adeje, with 765 illegal apartments, the second is San Bartolomé de Tirajana with 637, and the third is Puerto de la Cruz, with 531. La Oliva is in fourth place with a total of 484 apartments.
Now, the various platforms must proceed to remove the advertisements for these properties, which may be marketed on several of them at the same time.
The Government's objective is that these homes can be incorporated into the residential rental market.
Spain has been the first country in Europe to implement the Single Registry of Temporary Accommodations, in collaboration with the Association of Property Registrars, to end fraud in tourist rentals.
Through the Single Digital Window of the Ministry of Housing, the registration data is cross-referenced with that of digital platforms, which are collaborating to identify ads 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 rentals for tourist use. Of these, 53,786 have been revoked (20.3%).
The great anomaly within the registries is the Community of Madrid, where the percentage is reversed: 83% of the apartments that have applied to register have done so as temporary, and only 17% as tourist. Of the 3,513 applications for registration as a tourist rental, more than a third have been revoked for not complying with the law.
If a code is revoked, it means that the Association of Property Registrars has received the application, that said application contained incomplete data or data not in accordance with the current regulations of the type of activity that was intended to be carried out, and it was not corrected in a timely manner.
