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Spain shuts down over 65,000 Airbnb listings as part of rental crackdown

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 21 May 2025, 8:09pm
Residents of Alicante have taken to the streets to protest under the slogan 'Alicante is not for sale. Let's put a limit on mass tourism'. Photo / Getty Images
Residents of Alicante have taken to the streets to protest under the slogan 'Alicante is not for sale. Let's put a limit on mass tourism'. Photo / Getty Images

Spain shuts down over 65,000 Airbnb listings as part of rental crackdown

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 21 May 2025, 8:09pm

More than 65,000 Airbnb listings in Spain are set to be shut down amid a row over runaway house prices in the country.

The Government has come under increasing pressure to tame a surge in house prices and rents, which have doubled in less than a decade in some tourism hotspots.

Airbnb listings have been partly blamed for swallowing up the housing stock in cities such as Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia - and mass protests have started up ahead of the summer season.

UK correspondent Gavin Grey says many young people have been locked out of the housing market as a result of over-tourism - and there's growing calls for change. 

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