While bookings and rental rates have plummeted in Barcelona and Madrid, two of Airbnb's biggest markets globally, rural or coastal areas and some smaller cities are showing new life after Spain imposed some of the strictest coronavirus restrictions.
With people keen to avoid crowded city centres, data suggests guests will now pay more to stay in such places.
"In the middle of the pandemic ... I started to receive requests for information on the first house. Everyone was just waiting to see if they could travel in summer," said Requejo.
The resilience of rentals away from big cities has helped Airbnb, which made 40% of its revenue in Europe last year, to weather the crisis better than many expected.
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Around two-thirds of people who rented out flats or houses to tourists in Spain have moved them onto the residential market, a study by property portal Fotocasa found.
But in Requejo's cool, hilly Galicia region of northern Spain, there are now 20% more registered holiday lets than in January, a local tourist rental association says, and the bet is showing signs of paying off.
The average price of a night in the local towns of Ferrol and Ourense rose 28% and 9% respectively in the third quarter, according to AirDNA, which analyses data on vacation rentals.
Rounding the coast towards France, surfers' paradise San Sebastian has seen daily rates soar 76%, while in Barcelona, on the eastern Costa Brava, prices fell by an average of 18%.
Airbnb says 32% of Spaniards it surveyed at the end of September took advantage of not being tied to offices and extended trips to work extra days remotely.
Requejo says some of her guests worked remotely during their stays, and fellow Galician host Margarita Orduna was overwhelmed by requests for her property in Ferrol, some from people who wanted it for all of August.
"There was more demand than in previous years," said Orduna.
Requejo, who has not calculated how much lower her total income will be this year, says, "We cannot recover those reservations we had in April, May and June."
But with the pick-up in summer, "even though everything was very difficult, we managed to save the season".
TERRIFYING
Some in Europe have made Airbnb their livelihood, and are holding out for a tourism turnaround.
Sweeping restrictions in March caught Airbnb host Roberto Cubas as he was saving to buy a third apartment to add to his luxuriously-furnished portfolio in Valencia, eastern Spain.
"It was terrifying. I had to do yoga twice a day and meditate a lot to save myself from going mad," said Cubas, who nevertheless intends to ride out the ongoing slump.
Bookings fell 60% in seaside Valencia in the third quarter, but unlike in Madrid and Barcelona, rates ticked up slightly in the third quarter and are steady from a year ago.
"People are desperate to travel because they have been stuck at home, so they will get on a plane the moment governments allow it," Cubas said.
Vacation rental website HomeToGo found that 63% of Spaniards were planning to book holiday accommodation in the next year.
Although most owners who moved to the residential market have done so indefinitely, around 15% have taken a tenant for a fixed term and plan to start welcoming holidaymakers again when the situation improves, Fotocasa says.
Cubas thinks Airbnb hosts who stuck it out will be rewarded.
"When everything starts moving again there will be fewer of us sharing the pie," he said.
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Sadly the Government insistence on PCR testing is currently putting off all booking. There was a little flurry of interest after the vaccine was confirmed, but this collapsed when the PCR policy was introduced. With most tourists looking to book over Xmas for their summer holidays, Mallorca may well find it’s too late and misses the booking boat! People need to be sure that they can travel. The PCR is complicated, expensive and very difficult to source in the 72 hour window. It’s just too complicated.
With rumours of having Vaccination certificates and testing before you can fly. Plus the increase in virus infection rates. Will put many off travelling and visiting Spain and The Balearics. The first priority is to reduce or even stop infections occuring. Until the Covid 19 virus is reduced to almost zero. There will be no choice to fly or come on any holiday. I would not travel to any country or area that still has the virus.