The company has imposed the blockade of more than 65,000 illegal ads of tourist housing housed on its platform.
This was announced on Monday the cabinet in a statement in which he said that, through the General Directorate of Consumer Affairs, the Ministry has urged the subsidiary in Ireland of this multinational to eliminate a total of 65,935 ads when considering them “illegal” for “contravening” the regulations on advertising of this type of tourist accommodation.
Specifically, according to the department directed by Bustinduy, the regulations of the different autonomous communities are “violated” where consumption has “detected” these ads.
“In all cases, in addition, these are complete housing for tourist use, there are no advertisements of individual rooms,” as the Ministry directed by Pablo Bustinduy.
In recent months, he has referred to Airbnb up to three resolutions in which those more than 65,000 illegal ads of tourist housing that were detected on their platform were notified, resolutions in which this company was urged to block this advertising.
“Airbnb resorted to this action before justice to avoid the blockade and now the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid has spoken about the first resolution issuing a car in which the consumption actions endorsed,” the ministry added, while explaining that, in response to the imposed on the imposed in its first resolution, the TSJ urges Airbnb to withdraw 5.800 ads of tourist floors “immediately.”
From the General Directorate of Consumer, three reasons were argued to justify the “illegality” of the 65,935 ads of tourist floors that were detected in Airbnb and that “would be breaking different regulations.”
In the first place, according to the Ministry, the ads do not include the license or registration number, something mandatory in several regional regulations and that involves the “most common” infraction in the advertising that has been analyzed.
On the other hand, the ads do not indicate the legal nature of the landlords, that is, they do not indicate whether the leases are professionals or particular, an issue that, in the opinion of the Ministry, is “fundamental to know if whoever hires is protected as a consumer or not.”
In turn, the ads incorporate license numbers that do not correspond to those issued by the authorities. This practice “can mislead or deceit consumers.”
The announcements on which the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid has pronounced in the car affects the advertising of tourist housing found in the communities of Andalusia, Community of Madrid, Catalonia, Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands and Euskadi.
Generalized illegality
Based on this issue, Minister Bustinduy has publicly expressed his goal of collaborating with the competent public administrations to end the “lack of control” and the “generalized illegality” of tourist accommodations, as well as to favor access to housing and shield consumer rights.
For this reason, from consumption, they are working on various complementary actions that other authorities can develop.
In this way, the ministry directed by Bustinduy “redouble” its “commitment” to this cause providing the information that is collecting the unit of consumption analysis and offering technical assistance to other administrations to act in this line and “put an end to the thousands of illegal ads detected.”
In this context, he stressed that the General Directorate of Consumption opened a sanctioning file in December 2024 to a tourist housing rental platform for a potential breach of the consumption regulations on the advertising of the license number, and that in February 2025 opened sanctioning files to large tourist managerors for not correctly indicating the legal nature of the lessor.
“These sanctioning files continue their course regardless of the now announced measures,” said consumption, while indicating that, in addition, on March 27 a sanctioning file was also opened to a large real estate for abusive practices against tenants.
