What has the Spanish government done?
It has told holiday accommodation platform Airbnb that its Irish subsidiary, which manages much of its European operations, must take nearly 66,000 of the company’s apartment listings off the market.
Pablo Bustinduy, minister for consumer affairs, said that the properties, in six different regions of Spain, all breached regulations for tourist accommodation. Some, for example, did not list a licence number, while other listings did not show whether the owner was a private individual or a business.
A Madrid court has backed the Spanish government’s request for the immediate withdrawal of about 5,000 of those properties, with the remainder…