Ayuntamiento CDMX, Mexico City's municipal government, opened the short-let registry on 22 May at estanciaeventual.CDMX.gob.mx, with a roughly 30-day window that closes around 21 June 1. The registry had sat unbuilt three weeks before kickoff ; now the three-property-per-host limit and the 183-night annual cap have a working enforcement mechanism behind them. For a host renting flats in Condesa or Roma, the abstract cap has become an administrative deadline with a date.
The roughly 21 June deadline lands inside the World Cup window, the same weeks the cap was suspended in practice to accommodate . Tournament logistics and match scheduling sit with the World Cup desk; the housing and displacement consequence is the one that matters here. A host who misses the roughly 21 June deadline can be deregistered precisely when demand peaks, losing the single most lucrative month of the year while a registered competitor trades on. With about 274,000 short-let nights projected across the tournament, the revenue at risk per delisted host is concentrated, not spread.
The enforcement claim deserves a check. Mexico City has published no count of hosts registered before the deadline, so the registry's existence is established while its take-up is not. The mechanism is live; whether the city has the will or capacity to delist non-compliant hosts mid-tournament, against an Airbnb that filed an injunction earlier in the cycle, is untested. Ayuntamiento CDMX opening the registry is the reportable development; any compliance count would be the next story, and the city has published none.
