Was this article produced by google translate? Because if not, the quality is appalling. Please employ a proper spanish/english translator otherwise your publication really does deserve its nickname the Daily Bullshit.

Does anyone know where this app or link is where you can check then if a property is legal or not?

https://ultimahora.es/noticias/local/2017/08/06/284157/baleares-multara-desde-martes-hasta-000-euros-quien-alquile-piso-turistas.html

This article really is all too stupid for words. It's all based on a so-called residential housing shortage. But in reality there's no housing shortage, - there's an income shortage. This has come about by people not being able to pay rents in the winter because they're not working. This is because there are no tourists. This is because the hotels close. Solution : hotels stay open 12 months, and severely limit the all-inclusive offers. So simple a child can see it.

Well said below. Besides which, I live in a block of flats in a tourist area, and I would gladly swap tourist couples on short holidays for some of the resident tenants we have, with barking dogs left alone all night while they work, and the rubbish and discarded effects littering our corridors. Little wonder so many owners have stopped letting to locals (thus the perceived housing shortage), that do not earn for seven months of the year, and can't be evicted under the archaic laws here. Bring on more tourist rentals, that feed the local businesses and maintain our proprty values.

Not so. Under the Law of Urban Rentals anyone can let their property to whoever they wish, and with no lower limits regarding the renatal period. "Tourist Rentals" does not have any real meaning except for hostals, hotels and those offering "tourist services" such as airport collections, daily bedding change, the supply of food and a few oher such services. Otherwise, as stated before. There are those in minor authority that strive to change this for reasons best known to themselves, thus the ongoing media coverage, but it flies in the face of established laws, and has been kicked into touch by the National Courts. Even if they approved it locally, any sanctions would be thrown out by an appeal to the European Commission, as it was last year when the fines to Owners Direct and AirBnB were quashed at the higher level.

John: One has to have a licence for holiday/tourist letting. If not, the letting is illegal.

There's no such thing as letting ones property illegally, every single landlord is entitled to let his property under the Constitution and Spanish Horizontal Law however they please. Don't confuse this with anybody, including, but not exclusively to, property owners, paying taxes on their profits.

That is a myth often trotted out by simple souls who think taxes woul be reduced if everyone paid. Another example of the politics of envy and spite.

Well said " V ". If everyone was honest ( some hope ), taxes would be less and we would all be much better off.