Overview
- Madrid’s regional government, which plans to approve an updated decree on Wednesday, would make management companies file the start-up “responsible declaration” and would forbid tourist use in protected housing or in buildings where neighbors vote to block it.
- The draft raises quality bars with minimum room sizes, clear occupancy limits, and required basics like bed and bath linens, dishes, glassware, cutlery, and kitchen gear, plus ventilation and lighting standards tied to apartment key ratings.
- Valencia reports a sharp enforcement surge against illegal tourist flats, reaching an average of 449 cease-and-desist orders a year with 87% executed, and says a moratorium suspended 363 license files that would have added 4,697 tourist places.
- Valencia is moving from that moratorium to permanent saturation limits that cap tourist beds at 8% of each neighborhood’s population, restrict tourist use to 2% of homes per neighborhood, limit ground-floor conversions to 15% per block, and create a city registry called CATAV.
- Regional data show momentum behind the changes, with 1,153 deregistrations in 2024, 3,053 in 2025, 341 more in early 2026, and fines near €500,000, while INE counts 15,309 tourist homes in Madrid that pressure rentals and local shops, a point echoed across outlets from ABC to El País.