Since 2 January 2025, Spain has had a new national registration requirement for short-term rentals of furnished residential properties. This legislation, which provides a transition period until 1 July 2025, aims to bring more regulation to both seasonal rentals and tourist rentals offered through online channels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more about this registration requirement here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, discussion arose among online service providers about the general registration requirements for short-term rentals with online advertising. Central to this discussion is the introduction of the 'N\u00famero de Registro \u00danico de Alquiler' (NRUA)<\/strong>, a unique registration number for rentals. The Spanish Colegio de Registradores<\/strong> (the official association of property registries) recently published on this subject published an important clarification<\/a>, delineating the exact scope of this new obligation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The gist of this clarification is that the NRUA only required for short-term rentals<\/strong> (contracts of less than one year) when rentals are made through online platforms that facilitate the entire transaction. This refers to platforms such as Airbnb or Booking.com, where tenants not only view the ad, but also complete the booking and sign the contract online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Properties advertised through other channels - such as traditional advertising sites or a private website - where the contract is established outside the platform, fall outside<\/strong> this national obligation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A major concern is the relationship between the national NRUA and the already existing regional rental licences<\/strong> (licencias tur\u00edsticas<\/em>). The NRUA constitutes a additional national obligation<\/strong> and does not replace regional rental licences. Owners who already hold a regional rental licence must still apply for an NRUA if they offer their property through online booking platforms<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The two systems fulfil different purposes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compliance with these new regulations is essential to avoid sanctions from the Spanish government and the removal of ads on online platforms. Owners are responsible<\/strong> for requesting the registration number and transmitting it to the online platforms on which the property is offered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In turn, the platforms themselves - such as Airbnb and Booking.com - are obliged to verify the validity of these numbers through regular, random checks. Renting without a valid registration number can lead to removal of the advertisement<\/strong> and fines<\/strong> imposed by the government. The Spanish national registration requirement for short-term rentals only applies to rentals via online booking platforms. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[928,187],"class_list":["post-32784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verhuren-in-spanje","tag-nationale-registratieverplichting","tag-verhuren-in-spanje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confianz.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confianz.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confianz.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confianz.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confianz.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.confianz.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32786,"href":"https:\/\/www.confianz.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32784\/revisions\/32786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confianz.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confianz.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confianz.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confianz.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Clarification around the new registration number<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Only mandatory when using booking platforms<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Supplement to regional rental licences<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Proper compliance to avoid sanctions and expulsion<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Read more about the obligations of booking platforms here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"