The Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Madrid (TSJM) has set no hearing date on Airbnb's reconsideration motion against the €64 million fine. The motion, filed in late April, asks the court to revisit its 23 March refusal to suspend the fine on the existing record. The court's silence on the largest STR enforcement action in EU history sits on top of today's SDEP go-live; both rulings will set the procedural template for how every other national regulator handles platform pushback.
The Canary Islands holiday rental law, in force from Friday 12 December 2025, adds a second registration layer on top of Spain's national SDEP1. Canary Islands hosts must clear a 10% cap on each municipality's residential buildable area, a 10-year property age requirement (5 years on the smaller islands), 60% community-of-owners approval, and registration by mid-2026, with penalties up to €300,000. No other Spanish region faces a parallel two-tier burden of this scale. The convergence today is the first test of whether a regional registry and a national SDEP can run on the same listing data without producing contradictory decisions.
Social Rights Minister Pablo Bustinduy is targeting RDL 8/2026, the rent price-freeze decree defeated on Tuesday 28 April, for resubmission before the parliamentary summer recess2. The Junts per Catalunya bloc, which voted with PP and Vox to kill the prórroga, has signalled willingness to return if landlord tax incentives are added to the package. The two-pronged housing response Spain set out in RD 326/2026 (the €7 billion Plan Estatal de Vivienda 2026-2030; was meant to pair supply investment with rent control; the rent half is being negotiated back into existence one party at a time.
Barcelona carries 10,984 active Airbnb listings, 78% with active registration numbers and 22% without: roughly 2,400 unregistered units that the live SDEP can now surface to the Generalitat automatically3. Greece's SDEP, sitting alongside the Athens-to-Thessaloniki STR ban extension under Law 5275/2026, feeds the same dataset shape. Portugal's AIMA cultural-mediator strike, 52 days in today, leaves the SDEP operational but the visa-processing pipeline behind it stalled. That is the dataset every Spanish housing department, and every D8 applicant waiting on AIMA, will be reading by July.
