High Court of Justice of Madrid
Madrid's highest regional court handling Airbnb's appeal against Spain's €64m STR fine.
The High Court of Justice of Madrid still holds Airbnb's motion to reconsider the €64m fine it refused to suspend on 23 March 2026; no hearing date was set by mid-June, and the Supreme Court's May registry ruling gave Airbnb a new argument.
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The High Court of Justice of Madrid (Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Madrid, TSJM) is the highest court in the Community of Madrid. Created under Spain's 1985 Organic Law of the Judiciary, it sits above the region's ordinary courts and below the Tribunal Supremo. Its chambers hear civil and criminal, contentious-administrative and social appeals, and its administrative chamber reviews sanctions imposed by central ministries based in the capital.
That administrative role brought it Airbnb's challenge to the €64m fine imposed by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs in December 2025. the Court refused on 23 March 2026 to suspend the fine while the appeal runs, which means the sanction stands but is not yet a ruling on the merits. By 20 May the Court had still set no hearing date on Airbnb's reconsideration motion.
the Court's eventual ruling carries weight beyond Madrid. the Supreme Court's STS 620/2026 of 21 May moved short-let registration to the regions, and how the TSJM treats that ruling will shape whether national consumer-protection fines remain a tool against short-stay platforms.
The court let the €64m fine stand
On 23 March 2026 the Court refused to pause the €64m fine Spain's Ministry of Consumer Affairs imposed on Airbnb for unlicensed listings and falsified registration numbers. The refusal made it the first platform enforcement action of its kind in the EU to survive a suspension challenge.
Airbnb answered with a motion asking the Court to reconsider, and no hearing date had been set by 28 April. The ground shifted on 21 May, when the Supreme Court voided The National short-let registration number on competence grounds. That ruling does not bind this court's decision on the fine, but it hands Airbnb a competence argument the Court must now weigh when it rules on the merits.