Spain: CNMC starts working group to tackle legal maze of tourist rentals

Spain’s National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) has created a working group alongside regional competition authorities in order to simplify and promote the approved regulation regarding the short-term rental of properties for tourist purposes, which has now been described as a “Regulatory chaos”.

Its aim will not be to free new rental models between individuals, using platforms (such as Airbnb) from any type of control, but to ensure that they regulated where necessary and in a proportionate manner, without falling into “overregulation”.

The CNMC believes, in addition to the risk of over-regulation, that “the added problem of each autonomous community or each city designing a different regulation, which results not only in 17, but as many different rules as municipalities have become regular” commented the commission in its statement.

In 2013, the law regulating urban leases was modified, allowing each autonomous community to regulate tourist rentals. This change coincided with a boom in rentals through pages such as Airbnb, and led to a wave of regional regulations that tried to “bring order” this phenomenon.

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