Protests have spread across the Balearics. | Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter
Palma15/08/2024 11:47
Landlords illegally renting their apartments to tourists in the southern Spanish city of Seville could find their water cut off amid a crackdown by the local mayor's office to curb the spread of short-term lets that is angering locals. The office of Seville's mayor announced this week it is reviewing all the city's holiday apartments and will ask the local state-run water company Emasesa to cut off water supply to properties that do not comply with regulations, if they continue to let them out.
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Oh, I like that one. Quite clever! That would put an abrupt end to it.
Again the Council comes at a problem from the wrong end making it more complicated. The simple solution is that the vast majority of these "illegal" rentals are advertised on Airbnb which is how they reach their market. So, you make it the responsibility of this on-line platform to request an official certificate for each property that requests to be listed. The certificate has to be from the local Council recognising the rental as being "official." This method of legitimising offers and advertisers is used by other platforms in other markets on the internet.