Tourist rental inspections and fines in Spain by region (2026)

Every few weeks a regional government announces a record number of tourist rental inspections, and every announcement uses a different yardstick: actions in one region, enforcement cases in another, registry cancellations in a third. Nobody adds them up. There is no national statistic, and the seventeen autonomous communities that hold the competence publish balances when it suits them and with whatever cut-off suits them.

This page gathers what each administration has published about its own inspection and enforcement activity against tourist rentals, with the source behind every figure, the period it covers, and a warning about what can be compared and what cannot. It is written for anyone operating accommodation in Spain who wants to know how hard their region is pressing, and for anyone writing about the subject who needs the number with its origin.

How many tourist rental inspections happen in Spain: the figure does not exist

Competence over tourist accommodation in Spain is regional, and inspection and enforcement travel with it. The Supreme Court made the point when it annulled the national short-term rental registry for lack of state competence over the matter. Each community has its own tourism act, its own inspectorate, its own fine schedule and its own way of counting.

The result is that the figures in circulation cannot be compared without care. An “action” in Mallorca is an inspection visit; a “case” in Cantabria may end in dismissal; a “cancellation” in Andalusia is a registry removal that carries no fine. And some regions inspect in earnest but publish no balance, so their absence from the table says something about their transparency and nothing about their enforcement.

What does exist is an indirect national series from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda, which measures rejected registration applications rather than inspections, and works as a map of where the State has flagged irregular supply. It has its own section below.

Table: tourist rental inspections, cases and fines by autonomous community

The table shows the latest figure published by the competent administration in each region. The Source column says which document each row comes from. Where a cell says “not published”, the administration has released other data but not that one; where the whole row says “no balance”, it has published none.

One row needs a note on origin. The Asturias figures come from the official record of the Junta General del Principado: the appearance of Gimena Llamedo, Minister for the Presidency, Demographic Challenge, Equality and Tourism, before that parliament’s Committee on the Presidency, Demographic Challenge, Equality and Tourism, and on the Vice-Presidency, on 27 November 2025. Her 2025 figures are running totals at that date, not the year’s close. The Cantabria figures come from statements by the regional Tourism Minister, Luis Martínez Abad, to the press on 3 July 2025, reported by El Diario Cantabria, because the Cantabrian government did not issue them as a release of its own.

Community of Madrid: 588 inspections in 2025 and a fine in 85.71% of cases

Madrid publishes the cleanest series, which is why it heads the table even though it is not the region that inspects most. Its Directorate-General for Tourism and Hospitality carried out 481 inspections of tourist rentals in 2024 and 588 in 2025, a 22.3% increase. Its fine rate is the highest published: 90% of 2024 inspections ended in a fine, and 85.71% of those in 2025.¹

The figure that grew most is not inspections but removals: 1,153 tourist rentals struck from the registry in 2024 and 3,053 in 2025, up 164.8%. Much of it comes from cross-checks against the registry and from the new requirements of Decree 27/2026, which gives already-registered properties until 26 April 2029 to adapt. Total fines over the two years come to about half a million euros.

Mallorca: 3,043 actions and 10 million euros proposed in 2025

In the Balearic Islands the competence for tourism regulation sits with each island council, so the balance comes from the consell rather than the regional government. Mallorca’s closed its 2025 summer campaign, launched on 15 May, with 3,043 actions across the island, 19.1% more than in 2024 and more than triple the 2023 figure. Of those, 1,659 were visits to illegal supply, against 593 in summer 2023.²

The striking number is not the case count, 180 against 179 the year before, but their value and their resolution: proposed fines in the cases opened in 2025 add up to 10.05 million euros, and the department resolved about 221 cases, three times as many as a year earlier. Add more than 4,400 listings removed from platforms for lacking a registration number, which the Consell puts at more than 20,000 bed places. Since June 2026, Law 4/2026 also allows daily coercive fines of 500 to 5,000 euros while an illegal listing stays live, so the 2026 figure will be measured with a different ruler.

The councils of Ibiza and Menorca hold the same competence on their islands and have not published a comparable balance.

Barcelona: 8,500 municipal inspections and 849 restitution orders in 2025

In Catalonia the Generalitat has published no tourist-rental inspection balance for 2025 or 2026; its inspection releases concern rent caps in stressed market areas, which is a different matter. The available figure is municipal: Barcelona City Council’s Inspection Services Directorate carried out more than 8,500 inspections in 2025, producing 577 enforcement cases and 849 restitution orders, the instrument the city uses to order a flat back into residential use. By 5 June 2026 it had reached 3,156 inspections, 282 enforcement cases and 192 restitution orders.³

The council counts more than 6,600 illegal tourist flats returned to the residential market in ten years. It is the local authority with the most published activity in Spain, and the context explains it: Barcelona’s HUT licences expire in 2028 and the city has made inspection its main tool.

Asturias: from 248 to 2,622 tourist rental inspections in two years

Asturias is the sharpest growth case in the table. Inspections specifically of tourist rentals went from 248 in 2023 to 1,825 in 2024 and 2,622 accumulated to 27 November 2025, against overall totals of 1,230, 3,366 and 4,957 actions. Gimena Llamedo, Minister for the Presidency, Demographic Challenge, Equality and Tourism, gave the figures before her committee that day⁴. Tourist-rental enforcement cases numbered 62 in 2023, 117 in 2024 and 253 by that date in 2025.

Across the tourism sector as a whole, inspections rose from 1,230 in 2023 to 4,957 in 2025, and enforcement cases from 525 to 646. The regional government attributes the jump to an inspection and discipline service expanded to 16 staff and to online tracking tools; the same appearance cited 89 irregular listings removed from Airbnb and Booking.

Andalusia: almost 10,600 tourist rentals cancelled since February 2024

Andalusia has more registered tourist rentals than any other Spanish region, and its headline figure is not inspections but registry cancellations. Since February 2024, when Decree 31/2024 began to apply, the regional government had cancelled almost 10,600 tourist rentals from the Andalusian Tourism Registry by 18 September 2025, counting both cancellations requested by the owner and those made ex officio.⁵

The figure should be read for what it is. An ex officio cancellation removes the registration of a property that does not meet the requirements, but it is not an enforcement case and carries no fine in itself. The regional government has not published the number of on-site inspections or enforcement cases for the period; it has described its method, with an automated unit that scrapes listings lacking a registration number and cooperation agreements with city councils including Seville, Málaga, Granada, Cádiz and Jerez.

Valencian Community: 33% more tourist rental inspections in 2024

The Valencian regional government publishes its Inspection Plan balance a year in arrears, so the latest closed year is 2024, presented on 18 July 2025. That year, inspections of tourist rentals rose 33% on 2023, the dedicated programme against illegal supply and the shadow economy in tourist rentals logged more than 450 actions, and the Tourism Registry recorded more than 11,000 removals in a mass clean-up.⁶

The 2025 Plan introduced random inspections of tourist rentals to check the responsible declaration, the individual cadastral reference and the municipal urban-compatibility report required by Decree-Law 9/2024. Its balance has not been published. Since that decree-law the regional government can also delegate sanctioning powers to municipalities that ask for them, and València, Benidorm and others have signed up, so part of future activity will surface in municipal balances.

Basque Country, Galicia, Navarre, Murcia and Cantabria: partial balances

Five regions have published figures that do not form a series but do give the scale.

Basque Country: more than 2,300 inspections and 550 cases in three years

Tourism Minister Javier Hurtado put the previous three years’ activity before the Basque Parliament in May 2025: more than 2,300 inspections and more than 550 enforcement cases.⁷ After the obligation to show the registration number in listings took effect on 1 July 2025, the Basque Government announced in October about 500 property registrations revoked and more than 700 illegal listings removed through Kontsumobide, its consumer authority.⁸

Galicia: about 4,000 tourism inspection actions a year

The Galician government does not break out tourist rentals. Its public figure is that tourism inspection carried out about 4,000 actions in 2024 across all sectors, tourist rentals included, under its annual plan.⁹ The figure was published in June 2025 in reply to the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, which had put irregular tourist rentals in Galicia at more than 9,500, a number the regional government rejects. Galicia’s specific balances concern other things: the Turespazo reporting channel and the tourism business registry, not inspection.

Navarre: 71 actions, 41 cases and an average fine of 5,000 euros

Navarre published its 2025 balance in April 2026: 71 actions against unregistered accommodation, concentrated in Pamplona and its district, 41 enforcement cases opened and 32 resolved with fines averaging about 5,000 euros. 52% of actions began with a citizen complaint, and since April 2026 the 2026-2027 Tourism Inspection Plan accepts anonymous complaints.¹⁰

Region of Murcia: 1,200 rentals detected online and 2,000 listings removed

Murcia works mainly on listing surveillance. Its online tourism inspection unit detected more than 1,200 irregular tourist rentals in two years, and its agreement with Airbnb led to the removal of about 2,000 listings for accommodation with no registration number or an incorrect one, according to the September 2025 balance.¹¹ The number of enforcement cases for the period has not been published.

Cantabria: 90 tourist rental cases in 2024 and 150,000 euros

In Cantabria the figures were given by Tourism Minister Luis Martínez Abad in reply to press questions on 3 July 2025, at the presentation of Decree 50/2025: 90 tourist-rental cases opened in 2024, 84 of them fined and 150,000 euros collected; in 2025, up to that date, about 100 inspections and 11 complaints.¹² The 2025 regional budget-measures act raised the fine bands by 150%, with very serious infractions reaching 75,000 euros, and five more inspectors were announced.

Regions with no published balance: Canary Islands, Aragon, Castile and León, Castile-La Mancha, Extremadura and La Rioja

Six regions have published no inspection or fine figure for tourist rentals that can be dated to 2024, 2025 or 2026.

The Canary Islands is the most significant case by volume, because it is the third region by registrations revoked by the Ministry. Its Law 6/2025 on the sustainable regulation of tourist use of housing, in force since December 2025, shifts verification to the island councils, which must approve within six months a plan to check every responsible declaration filed before the law, and to municipalities, with inspection plans of up to four years.¹³ Until those plans produce results there will be no island or regional figure.

Aragon, Castile and León, Castile-La Mancha, Extremadura and La Rioja all have a fine schedule and an inspection service, but neither their transparency portals nor their recent press releases contain a balance. Extremadura published one in the previous legislature, with 406 properties located and 14 cases, which is no longer available on the regional government’s website and is left out for that reason.

What the Housing Ministry has notified by region: 86,275 registrations revoked

The only series measured the same way across Spain was published by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda on 2 February 2026: 86,275 applications for a short-term rental registration number revoked for failing the requirements, which the Ministry notified to the platforms so they would remove the listings.¹⁴

This table does not measure inspections. It measures applications to a registry the Supreme Court annulled in May 2026, and a revoked application is not the same as an illegal property: the count includes filing errors and owners who never completed the process. With that caveat, it is useful for one thing: comparing the size of the problem the State flagged in each territory with the activity that territory publishes. The Canary Islands, with 13,726 revoked registrations and no regional balance, is the widest gap on the list.

Inspection, case, fine and cancellation are not the same thing

Before comparing two rows of the table it helps to be clear about what each one counts.

1. An inspection or action is a visit or a check. It can end with no consequences. Mallorca and Barcelona count visits; Madrid counts inspections closed with a result.
2. An infraction report documents what the inspector found. It precedes the case, and not every report opens one.
3. An enforcement case is the procedure. It is resolved months later, with a fine or a dismissal, and sometimes in a different year from the one it was opened in. That is how Mallorca can resolve 221 cases in a year in which it opened 180.
4. The “proposed” amount is the sum of the fines the administration puts forward when it opens the case. The collected amount is what is finally paid after representations, early-payment reductions and appeals, and it is usually a good deal lower. Mallorca’s 10.05 million is proposed; Cantabria’s 150,000 euros is collected.
5. A cancellation or registry removal strikes the property from the register. It is not a fine. Andalusia’s 10,600 and Madrid’s 3,053 measure registry clean-up, not penalties.
6. Municipal figures (Barcelona, and soon Valencian and Canarian municipalities) do not add to regional ones, because they are different administrations acting on the same territory.

And the underlying bias: regions publish when the figure flatters them. A balance with a record number of inspections goes out as a press release; a weak year does not. A region missing from the table is not necessarily one that does not inspect, and a region with high figures is not necessarily the strictest, only the most talkative.

What a tourism inspection checks and what falls outside it

For anyone operating with a licence, all these figures measure a risk that touches them only at the edges: the bulk of cases are opened against properties with no licence or no registration number in their listings. A regional inspector’s checklist is short and is set out in what a tourism inspector looks at: a valid licence or responsible declaration, the registration number visible on every portal, actual capacity against authorised places and, in the regions that require them, the technical requirements of the decree.

What a tourism inspection does not check is the guest report. That obligation is national, under Royal Decree 933/2021, and is policed by the Ministry of the Interior through SES.HOSPEDAJES, with its own penalty regime. In practice the two tracks cross: an inspection that finds unlicensed activity tends to end in a check of guest reports, and the other way round. Having every report filed on time and the receipt for each filing to hand is the part of this risk that depends only on you, and it is exactly what RegistroViajero automates.

If your region appears without figures, the fine schedule that applies to it is published all the same, act by act, in renting without a tourist licence in Spain: fines by region.

Frequently asked questions

Which Spanish region carries out the most tourist rental inspections? The Spanish region that carries out the most tourist rental inspections cannot be determined from published data, because each administration counts differently and several publish nothing. On the figures available, the administration with the most declared inspections is Barcelona City Council, with more than 8,500 in 2025, followed by the Consell de Mallorca, with 3,043 actions in its 2025 summer campaign, and Asturias, with 2,622 tourist-rental inspections accumulated to late November 2025.

How much does Spain collect in fines from tourist rentals? How much Spain collects in fines from tourist rentals is not known, because there is no national figure and most regions do not publish what they collect. The published figures are partial: the Consell de Mallorca proposed 10.05 million euros in fines in 2025, the Community of Madrid imposed about 500,000 euros in 2024 and 2025 combined, and Cantabria collected 150,000 euros in 2024.

Which Spanish regions publish no tourist rental inspection data? The Spanish regions that publish no tourist rental inspection data are, as of 5 September 2026, the Canary Islands, Aragon, Castile and León, Castile-La Mancha, Extremadura and La Rioja. All have an inspection service and a fine schedule, but none has released a balance that can be dated to 2024, 2025 or 2026.

Has a tourist rental cancelled from the registry been fined? A tourist rental cancelled from the registry has not necessarily been fined. Cancellation removes the registration, at the owner’s request or ex officio when the property fails the requirements, but it is a separate act from an enforcement case. Andalusia’s almost 10,600 cancellations and Madrid’s 3,053 removals measure registry clean-up, not penalties.

Does a Spanish tourism inspection check the guest reports? A Spanish tourism inspection does not check the guest reports, because guest registration is a national obligation under Royal Decree 933/2021 policed by the Ministry of the Interior, not by the regional tourism department. In practice the two checks often cross, so it pays to have both the licence and the guest reports in order at the same time.

This article is for informational purposes and does not replace professional legal advice. The figures correspond to the balances published by each administration on the date shown in each row and may have been updated since.