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		</div><p>Spain’s government has fined Airbnb €64 million for advertising unlicensed tourist rentals, officials have said.</p>
<p>The rentals did not include licence numbers — a requirement in many regions in Spain — or included licence numbers that did not match what authorities had, the consumer rights ministry said. Others listed incorrect information about hosts, it said.</p>
<p>The move is the latest government action in Spain against short-term rental companies such as Airbnb and Booking.com as the country grapples with a housing affordability crisis, particularly in city centres and other places popular both with residents and tourists.</p>
<p>Airbnb said that it planned to challenge the fine in court.</p>
<p>The company said it was collaborating with Spanish authorities to comply with a new national registration system for short-term rentals, and that more than 70,000 listings on the platform had added a registration number since January.</p>
<p>Spain’s government and many Spaniards across the political spectrum see short-term rental companies as responsible for driving up housing costs.</p>
<p>The nation on the Iberian Peninsula is one of the world’s most visited countries and short-term holiday rentals have cut into many cities’ stretched supply.</p>
<p>In May, the consumer rights ministry ordered Airbnb to take down around 65,000 listings because of rule violations.</p>
<p>“There are thousands of families living on the edge because of the housing crisis, while a few enrich themselves with business models that evict people from their homes,” Spain’s consumer rights minister, Pablo Bustinduy, said in a statement.</p>
<p>In 2024, Spain’s anti-trust watchdog fined Booking.com €413 million, saying the online travel company had abused its dominant market position in the country over the previous five years.</p>
<p>Local authorities in Barcelona have said they plan to phase out all of the 10,000 apartments licensed in the city as short-term rentals by 2028 to safeguard the housing supply for residents.</p>
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