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 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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