Overview
- Spain’s consumer affairs ministry said the decision is final and requires Airbnb to delete the 65,122 offending listings.
- Authorities found adverts lacking required licence numbers, using numbers that did not match official registers, or providing incorrect host information.
- The penalty reflects six times the profit the ministry says Airbnb earned from the listings after it was warned, and it is the ministry’s second-largest consumer fine.
- Airbnb says it withdrew about 65,000 listings earlier in the year, has added registration numbers to tens of thousands of ads, and will challenge the fine in court.
- The action is part of a broader crackdown tied to housing affordability concerns, including prior takedown orders for Booking.com and Barcelona’s plan to phase out roughly 10,000 tourist apartments by 2028.