The Minister of Tourism and Employment of the Government of the Canary Islands, Jéssica de León, has requested that the Minister of Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu, and the Secretary of State, Rosario Sánchez, repeal the single registry of rentals, considering it to be an ineffective tool that invades regional competencies, creates a double registry, and generates legal uncertainty for owners who comply with current sector regulations.
«The European Regulation is directly applicable, a Decree from the Government of Spain was not necessary, which has generated a bubble in the Autonomous Communities with that double registration: what is legal for the Canary Islands is not for the Ministries of Housing and Tourism. Neither can the Canary Islands deregister them in the General Tourism Registry nor does the Ministry allow them to be marketed», explained the minister.
De León made these statements after the celebration of the Sectoral Conference of Tourism held this Tuesday in Madrid, to which he attended along with the Director General of Tourism Planning, Training and Promotion, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, in relation to the application of the Royal Decree that regulates the single registry and the digital single window for rentals, a tool to which the Canary Islands have not yet been able to connect due to the technical difficulties presented by its operation.
Added to this is the new order VAU 1560/2025, which requires notifying the registrars again about leases carried out in 2025 and which must be submitted before March 2. Failure to do so will result in automatic deactivation, and if the owner wishes to reactivate, they will have to bear an economic cost again.
In this regard, the Ministry warns that, of the 415,000 unique rental registration numbers currently marketed on platforms, only 27,700 have been able to complete the procedures for their homes and comply with the new Order. "A worrying situation is being generated as owners have less than a month to complete the processing and, meanwhile, the Ministry of Tourism remains silent in the face of a problem they themselves have created," assured Jéssica de León.
«From the Ministry of Tourism and Employment we have appealed to the Supreme Court this Royal Decree because it not only creates a double registry, but it generates defenselessness in the owner since the homes that are legal in the Canary Islands are illegal for the registrars, that is, for the Ministry of Housing, which lacks competencies in both tourism and housing,» explained the minister.
De León recalled that the single rental registry is a measure that was born without the general consensus of the autonomous communities and that the European Commission has spoken out against the Royal Decree, considering that it deviates from the European Regulation which is directly applicable. "Not only does it invade regional powers, but requiring owners to register their homes in the registry is an imposition that contradicts the Mortgage Law, which does not oblige this procedure," added the councilor.
This requirement would especially affect the green islands, where many owners would be affected by being excluded from marketing platforms for not having been able to complete the process before the established date and with the added detriment of having to pay again to reactivate their homes.
