Tourist Rental Regulations
With the advent of social media and the Internet a whole new platform has opened up for rental landlords to contact new clients. This also opens up a new area that has to be regulated. Recently the director General of tourism in Madrid said that this area will now be regulated more closely. It is possible that the push to regulate Spanish tourist rentals more closely comes from the influential hotel owners who see private tourist rentals as a threat to their business. The authorities want to insure that the industry remains fair across the board and that those renting holiday rentals have no unfair advantage over hotels and other regular holiday accommodation businesses.
Holiday Rentals in Barcelona
Barcelona has restrictive regulations governing private tourist rentals. Firstly there is a moratorium on the issuing of any new short-term tourist rental licenses. Only homeowners who already have a property with a rental license can rent or those who purchase a property which com with a rental license. The rental license applies to the property not the landlord so when the property is sold the license reverts to the new owner. In addition the Barcelona municipality requires strict conditions to be abide by to insure that residents in the neighborhood are not negatively affected by tourist rentals and that neither tourist not landlords suffers any loss or damages as a result of low quality accommodation or bad contracts.















