US EditionSpain fines Airbnb $75 million for unlicensed tourist rentals
The €64 million fine targets 65,122 unlicensed listings, reflecting six times Airbnb's illegal profits amid Spain's housing crisis and consumer protection enforcement.
- On Monday, Spain's government fined Airbnb €64 million , and the consumer affairs ministry said Airbnb must "correct the violations by deleting illegal content".
- Investigators said 65,122 adverts breached consumer rules by promoting properties without a licence or with licence numbers that didn't match registers, including banned properties and hosts with incorrect information.
- Earlier enforcement saw Bustinduy's office order removal of around 65,000 Airbnb listings, Booking.com to take down more than 4,000 adverts, and Barcelona plan to phase out 10,000 listings by 2028.
- Airbnb said it is collaborating with Spanish authorities on a national registration system for short-term rentals, with more than 70,000 listings added registration numbers since January, but plans to challenge the fine in court.
- With a tourism boom, Spain hosted a record 94 million foreign tourists in 2024 and is on course to surpass that figure this year, while its leftist government links short-term rentals to housing shortages.
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Spain has imposed a million-dollar penalty on the US company Airbnb.
The Spanish government is fining Airbnb over €64 million for illegally offering homes. More than 65,000 listings on the rental platform do not meet registration requirements. Properties were allegedly offered without a permit or had the wrong registration number. Airbnb says it has since removed the listings. The fine is the latest step taken by the Spanish government in its fight against platforms like Airbnb and Booking.com. Spain is facing a …
The Spanish government is fined Airbnb the equivalent of around 700 million kronor for advertising apartments that lack a rental permit.
Spain orders Airbnb to pull thousands of unlicensed property ads
Airbnb may finally pay the price of long-simmering tensions about overtourism in Spain. The Spanish government announced on Monday that it has fined the online rentals giant 64 million euros ($75 million) for advertising unlicensed rental listings in the country. This decision is the latest in several months of back-and-forths, as the government previously ordered Airbnb to remove more than 120,000 listings it identified as unlicensed. While Sp…
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