Barcelona is adhering to the digital one-stop-shop on rentals (FUDA), to be activated on 1 July. The tool centralises information on short-term tourist rentals, improving transparency and creating a reliable single census that will facilitate the detection of irregular uses and the deactivation of adverts that do not meet with the regulations.
The regulation makes it obligatory to register all homes used for short-term tourist accommodation on the Single Rental Register. The census will include the exact address of homes, the URL for adverts published on platforms and statistics relating to their activity. Rental platforms will have to provide monthly data on their adverts and verify the obligatory register number in advance. In the case of invalid or suspended registers, they will have to take down adverts within 48 hours at the most.
Adhering to the FUDA one-stop-shop tool is an initiative by the Ministry for Housing and Urban Agenda, to strengthen inter-administrative collaboration and improve transparency, reducing pressure on the residential market.
End to tourist flat licences in 2028
Barcelona will no longer issue or renew licences for the 10,000 plus tourist lets currently operating in the city, meaning that these will return to the residential market in 2028. This strategy to halt the irregular expansion of tourist lets will now be backed up by this adhesion to the FUDA, ensuring a more regulated and balances model that guarantees the right to housing.