Ayuntamiento CDMX
Mexico City's municipal government; its short-let registry logged under 5% compliance by July 2026.
Mexico City's despojo squad opened a probe on 27 July into property-seizure rings using short-let listings, after the city's own registry logged under 5% host compliance mid-World Cup.
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Did Mexico City's short-let registry actually work, or is compliance still under 5%?
Timeline for Ayuntamiento CDMX
Mexico City probes despojo short lets
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The Ayuntamiento CDMX, formally the Gobierno de la Ciudad de México, is Mexico City's municipal government. Facing displacement pressure from the short-let boom, it capped individual hosts at 180 nights a year from October 2024 and built a digital registry at estanciaeventual.CDMX.gob.mx to police the limit, timed ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup accommodation surge.
The city's structural problem is arithmetic: roughly 61,500 hotel rooms against millions of anticipated tournament visitors, a gap that short-let platforms currently fill. The registry's three-property-per-host limit does not reach the roughly 1,400 operators registered as companies who, between them, control about half the city's short-let supply, so its enforcement teeth fall almost entirely on individual hosts.
The city also doubled most residency-Visa fees from 1 January 2026, a separate revenue move affecting foreign residents rather than short-let hosts. Rent-cap legislation, proposed alongside the short-let cap, remains formally parked until after the World Cup final, leaving the harder displacement questions unresolved.
The registry enforcement is not working
Its Fiscalía despojo unit began investigating rings that seize occupied housing, list it on short-let sites and sell to developers, reported on 27 July, with host collective Todos Somos Anfitriones putting completed registrations at under 5% of roughly 27,000 estimated active short-lets against the Ayuntamiento's own registry.
That figure lands weeks after the city's own registration Deadline passed on 21 June with no compliance count published and no visible enforcement, while more than 400 host amparos froze the three-property cap through mid-August. The despojo probe is the first sign the city is acting on the housing side of the ledger at all, even as the registry it built to police the World Cup boom sits largely unused.