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Barcelona Bans AirBnB and Short Term Rentals

Barcelona has been on the American travel radar for decades. The architecture, the beaches, the food markets, the nightlife, the neighborhoods that each feel like a small city within the larger one. It consistently ranks among the top European destinations for U.S. travelers, and for a significant portion of those visitors, the accommodation of choice [...]

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There are 12 plenary sessions left for Barcelona to renew the municipal conclave, which from June 2027 will have, for population growth, two more councillors. They will already be 43. They can assume that this new mandate will take the thematic relay from which now it hurries its last year of activity. It will continue to talk about security, mobility, climate change and tourism. But, above all, it will be discussed about the crisis of access to…

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The plenary takes forward the measure, agreed by PSC and Comuns and which has had the votes of ERC, which lays the basis for limiting any use of the house that is not usual.Catalunya approves limiting the price of the seasonal rental The Barcelona City Council has approved a Modification of the Metropolitan General Plan (MPGM) that will lay the basis for prohibiting the rental of the season in the city. This proposal, which forms part of a pact …

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The City Council of Barcelona has opened this Friday a way to limit the rentals of season in homes of the city and the couvings’, a format of renting rooms in buildings with shared services at high prices, aimed above all to people passing through the capital.

·Barcelona, Spain
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The plenary session of the Barcelona City Council has provisionally approved modifying the general metropolitan plan (PGM) to establish that the main use of housing must be the habitual and permanent residence. The proposal has gone ahead with the favorable votes of the PSC, Barcelona en Comú and ERC, and Junts, the PP and Vox have voted against it. The modification aims to prioritize residential use over temporary uses and provide the city coun…

Activists from the Platform of People Affected by Mortgages protest for the right to housing in Barcelona (Symbolic image) (Photo by LLUIS GENE / AFP) (Photo by LLUIS GENE/AFP via Getty Images) Getty Images The Barcelona City Council has provisionally approved an amendment to the Metropolitan General Plan to establish primary and permanent housing as the priority use. The measure will allow the council to prohibit or restrict seasonal rentals an…

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El Periódico broke the news in Barcelona, Spain on Friday, March 27, 2026.
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