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Spanish short-term rental & agency compliance

The risk is yours,
not the owner's.

Since May 2026, the platforms send data about every host in Spain to the government - monthly, automatically - and remove adverts whose licence number fails. None of these systems warns you first: you find out when the advert is gone, the fine arrives, or your owner asks why. LicenceDesk checks your whole portfolio against each region's official register every night, so the first warning is ours - not theirs.

Sign-up not required, and nothing is stored for individual checks. Fines per listing: 2,001–600,000 €, depending on the region — what that means.

Connected official registers

  • Andalucía VUT live
  • Aragón VU live
  • Canarias VV live
  • Cantabria live
  • Castilla y León VUT live
  • Castilla-La Mancha VUT live
  • Cataluña HUT live
  • Comunidad Foral de Navarra UVT live
  • Comunitat Valenciana CV-VUT live
  • Extremadura AT live
  • Galicia VUT live
  • Illes Balears (Mallorca + Menorca) ETV live
  • La Rioja VT live
  • Madrid (capital) VUT live
  • País Vasco / Euskadi VT live
  • Principado de Asturias VUT live
  • Región de Murcia VV live

Data published by each autonomous community. LicenceDesk is not affiliated with any of them.

What a single error can cost

These are the fines in force today, set by law - and each region sets its own scale for the same mistake.

10,001–100,000 €
● Missing licence number
Valencia. Advertising a property without its licence number and exact location - even when the licence itself is perfectly valid (Ley 15/2018 art. 19.1.b, sanctioned by art. 92.16).
100,001–600,000 €
● Unregistered rental
Valencia. Advertising a property that has no licence at all, and the fine can come with closure of the activity (Ley 15/2018 arts. 93.1 and 94.3).
2,001–18,000 €
● The same thing, in Andalusia
One band lower for identical conduct, rising to 150,000 € on a repeat inside a year (Ley 13/2011 arts. 71.1, 78.2 and 72.10). Which side of a regional border a property sits on moves the exposure by a factor of thirty.
600,000 €
● Guest register, nationwide
Every guest's identity must be reported to the police (RD 933/2021, enforced under LO 4/2015). Since December 2024 the duty reaches intermediaries, not just the owner.

Each region sets its own fine scale. LicenceDesk checks your portfolio against the official register of whichever one applies, every night.

Why is the agency liable?

Your publication, your problem

You are responsible for what you publish from the moment it goes live. Andalusia says the agency is liable even if it simply did not notice (Ley 13/2011 arts. 71.2 and 73.1); Valencia reaches whoever runs the activity and leaves the owner only subsidiarily liable (Ley 15/2018 art. 88).

Publishing is the offence

Advertising an unregistered property is itself the infringement - Andalusia art. 30.4, Valencia art. 54, in almost the same words. No guest needs to arrive, and letting the registered details go stale is a separate offence again.

Portals act before regulators

Platforms remove listings with missing or invalid registration numbers. The listing disappears, the owner asks why, and the file - when it is opened - has the agency's name on it.

Sources, all read in the BOE consolidated texts: Ley 13/2011 del Turismo de Andalucía, arts. 30, 71, 72, 73, 78 and 79; Ley 15/2018 de turismo, ocio y hospitalidad de la Comunitat Valenciana, arts. 19, 54, 88 and 92-94; Decree 28/2016, Decree 31/2024 and Decree-Law 1/2025 art. 38.4; Decree-Law 9/2024; RD 933/2021 with LO 4/2015. We publish the legal reference against every rule in the product. This is operational guidance, not legal advice.

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Regional coverage

Each region runs its own official register - there is no national one. LicenceDesk checks them all at once; this is the live status of every register, straight from the file the checker reads.

17 of 19 territories connected and verified live. The rest are listed with what is known about each register, so the gap is visible rather than implied.

Andalucía Live
VUT · VFT · VTAR
Registro de Turismo de Andalucía (RTA)
Aragón Live
VU · VUT
Registro de Turismo de Aragón
Canarias Live
VV
Registro General Turístico de Canarias
Cantabria Live
Registro General de Empresas Turísticas de Cantabria
Castilla y León Live
VUT
Registro de Turismo de Castilla y León
Castilla-La Mancha Live
VUT
Registro de Empresas y Establecimientos Turísticos de Castilla-La Mancha
Cataluña Live
HUT · HUTB · HUTG · HUTT · HUTL
Registre de Turisme de Catalunya (RTC)
Comunidad Foral de Navarra Live
UVT · UVTR · UAT · UATR · UCR
Registro de Turismo de Navarra
Comunitat Valenciana Live
CV-VUT
Registre de Turisme de la Comunitat Valenciana
Extremadura Live
AT
Registro General de Empresas y Actividades Turísticas de Extremadura
Galicia Live
VUT · VT
Rexistro de Empresas e Actividades Turísticas (REAT)
Illes Balears (Mallorca + Menorca) Live
ETV
Registres insulars d'habitatges turístics (CAIB dades obertes)
La Rioja Live
VT
Registro de Proveedores de Servicios Turísticos de La Rioja
Madrid (capital) Live
VUT
Ayuntamiento de Madrid - viviendas de uso turístico con licencia
País Vasco / Euskadi Live
VT · HT
Registro de Empresas y Actividades Turísticas de Euskadi (REATE)
Principado de Asturias Live
VUT · VV
Registro de Empresas y Actividades Turísticas del Principado de Asturias
Región de Murcia Live
VV
Registro de Empresas y Actividades Turísticas (ITREM)
2 more territories mapped, not yet connected 2 mapped
Ceuta Regime mapped, no data source yet
Melilla Regime mapped, no data source yet

Ceuta and Melilla keep their registers administrative-only - nothing is published to connect to yet. Their regimes are mapped, and they connect the day data appears.

A region goes live when its register publishes per-property data we can mirror and compare nightly - market size plays no part. Until then it is listed with what is known, so a gap is visible rather than implied.

Check a Spanish tourist licence

Paste any regional registration number or a cadastral reference. We place the format first, so a number from a region we have not connected yet is told apart from one that is genuinely missing. Every connected region is verified live against its register — snapshot 2026-10-08, 175 113 records; see coverage for the rest.

Try VUT/MA/102186 · results are read-only and nothing is recorded.

✓Registered as VUT/MA/102186. matched on licence number
NameLOS PINOS DE ALOHA GOLF
AddressURBANIZACION LOS PINOS DE ALOHA GOLF, FASE I Blq. 8 Plta/Piso BAJA Pta/Letra 2, MARBELLA
Registered2026-08-07
Places5
Cadastral4827104UF2442N0032KZ

One property at a time is a demo. The product does this for a whole portfolio, every night, and tells you only what changed.

Check your portfolio for free

Paste every licence number and cadastral reference you have. In a minute you get back, per property, what the official register says - registered, frozen by a municipal moratorium, or not there at all. Free, by email, no account.

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Results are limited to 50 properties. Identifiers come back masked; the verdicts do not.

How LicenceDesk works

Everything checked every night

Connect your portfolio once. Every licence is checked against its region's official register while you sleep - and your Airbnb, Booking, Vrbo and Idealista adverts are opened and checked too: is the number on the advert, and is it the right one? The exact check the platforms run before removing an advert. We run it first.

The paperwork, on one desk

Per property: what its region demands, what you hold, what is missing and what expires soon - with the warning while there is still time to renew. We read every official bulletin daily, and when a rule touches a town where you have stock, the alert names your properties.

Proof for your owners

A dated compliance certificate per owner, and a ten-second screening for any property you are about to take on. The pages that keep the owners you have - and win the next one.

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Beyond the holiday-let licence

Agent registration

Andalusia's register under Ley 5/2025, RAICV in Valencia, AICAT in Catalonia - registration numbers, insurance and guarantees, with renewal dates tracked.

Anti-money-laundering

Ley 10/2010 applies to every agency in Spain. Manual, compliance officer, training cycles and external review, with the small-agency relief worked out rather than assumed.

Consumer information

The DIA required by Decree 218/2005 on every home marketed for sale or rent in Andalusia, tracked per listing alongside the energy certificate.

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Who it is for

Real-estate & rental agents

from 9 EUR/mo

Portals delist unlicensed listings and inspectors fine the agency, not the owner - and nobody owns keeping the licences straight.

Every listing checked for compliance automatically, with an alert the moment something needs you - act before a fine or a portal delisting, not after.

Per portfolio size · 10-250 properties

MLS & CRM platforms

from 1 500 EUR/mo

Your agencies ask you about compliance and you have no answer to sell them. Listings with bad licence data flow through your feeds to every portal.

Give every agency on your platform compliance from one integration - a better product and cleaner data, on your brand.

Platform fee + per active agency · +12 EUR per agency

Property portals

from 2 500 EUR/mo

You publish listings whose registration numbers are wrong, expired or absent, and the exposure for advertising them is yours.

Verify licence numbers through the API before a listing goes live, and re-check everything already published every night.

Verification API by volume · to 250k lookups

Lawyers & gestorías

from 49 EUR/mo

Every conveyance needs the same checks done by hand, and the answer goes stale between due diligence and completion.

Each conveyance checked automatically, evidenced and dated - and you stay informed from due diligence to completion.

Per seat, checks included · 50 checks, then 0.60 EUR

Agency pricing

One price for everything: licences checked nightly, the energy desk and advert monitoring all included, on your whole portfolio. Priced on portfolio size, because that is what drives the work.

Starter

9 EUR/mo + VAT

Up to 10 properties

  • Nightly tourist-licence checks against the official register
  • Includes the energy desk and listing monitoring
  • Alerts when something changes, by email or push
  • Portfolio and owner reports, unlimited
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Growth

29 EUR/mo + VAT

Up to 50 properties

  • Nightly tourist-licence checks against the official register
  • Includes the energy desk and listing monitoring
  • Alerts when something changes, by email or push
  • Portfolio and owner reports, unlimited
  • Multiple data sources and team members
Start with Growth

Portfolio

89 EUR/mo + VAT

Up to 250 properties

  • Nightly tourist-licence checks against the official register
  • Includes the energy desk and listing monitoring
  • Alerts when something changes, by email or push
  • Portfolio and owner reports, unlimited
  • Multiple data sources and team members
  • Priority verification of new municipal rules
Start with Portfolio

Prices exclude VAT (21% IVA), added at checkout and itemised on every invoice.

Tourist licence monitoring, and more

Every plan above already includes them. If you only need one, each is sold on its own for less - see its page for the price.

Energy certificates

Certificates checked against the official regional register, with the expiry worked out the way the law does - five years for a G rating, not ten.

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Listing monitoring

Your adverts opened every night: still up, still carrying the right number, still saying what they said yesterday.

See it on its own

Check your portfolio before the platform does

Paste every licence number and cadastral reference you hold. We send back, property by property, what the official register says. Free, and no account.

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Where to go next

Guides by region What each region's register demands, with the law behind every claim. Municipality data How many holiday lets are registered in each municipality, taken from the official register. Building exposure How many registered holiday lets share a building with yours, dated to the register.