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Is your holiday rental's registration number in the register?
You have paid, you do not know the host, and your trip is coming up. Of everything in a Spanish listing, the registration number is the only thing you can check yourself in an official source beforehand: six regions publish their register of holiday accommodation, and Airbnb and Booking have a field for this number. Enter it to see whether it is listed there, as what and for which municipality. Free of charge, no account needed.
What your number probably looks like
- Comunitat Valenciana:
CV-VUT0000033-A,CV-VUT0000012-CS - Catalonia:
HUTB-000001,HUTG-012345,PB-000019 - Andalusia:
VUT/AL/00001,VTAR/MA/00142 - Canary Islands:
VV-35-1-0000001,A-38-4-0000685 - Mallorca:
ETV/1000,ETVPL/12473,VT/1000 - Menorca:
ET0186ME,001/1985,VTV001ME
If the listing shows no number, ask the host for it.
Anyone letting to holidaymakers must declare this to the region beforehand; registration follows. Except in Andalusia, every one of these regions requires the registration number in advertising — which is why it appears in a listing at all. The regions' rules in detail.
What you can do yourself
- Ask the region's tourism register. That is the binding information, and it costs nothing in any region. What you see here is a published file with a date, not the authority's current status.
- Ask the host for the number if the listing does not show one. The platforms have a field for it for Spanish accommodation.
- Compare the municipality. For a match, it shows which municipality the entry is listed for. If it differs from your booking, that is a question for the host.
- Ask for the cadastral reference (20 characters, “referencia catastral”). Anyone who gives it names a specific plot that anyone can look up in the official cadastre.
- Keep screenshots. What the listing said when you booked is your basis, not what it says today.
Frequently asked questions
Where do I find the registration number of my holiday rental?
In the listing. Airbnb and Booking have a separate field for it for Spanish accommodation, often called “licence”, “registration” or “permit”; sometimes it is only in the description. If there is none, ask the host for it.
What does it mean if the number is not found?
At first only this: it is not in the published files. That can have several causes that look the same here. In several regions letting is permitted from the day the declaration is received — registration only follows afterwards (Andalusia Art. 38.2 Ley 13/2011, Balearic Islands Art. 23.3 Ley 8/2012). In the Balearic Islands the receipt number of the declaration may appear in advertising until the number is assigned (Art. 23.7). Added to that are typos, a missing leading zero, a region without an open register and the date of the file itself; the Andalusian file is demonstrably incomplete. “Not found” is therefore not a statement about the accommodation or the host.
Does the information say whether letting is permitted?
No. We do not check a licence; we look in a published register. Whether letting is permitted depends on regional and municipal rules; only the authority's information is binding, and it is free of charge in every region. What follows from a finding for your booking would be legal advice, and we do not give it.
Does the information show the address of the property?
No. We show the register, the type of entry, the municipality and — where the register has it — the year.
Which regions are included?
Comunitat Valenciana, Catalonia, Andalusia, Mallorca, Menorca and the Canary Islands. There is no open data set for Ibiza, Formentera and Murcia; we have none for the other regions of Spain. If the region is missing, we say “no data”, not “no entry”.
Is an entry that was found still valid today?
We can only address that for Catalonia and Mallorca, because only these two registers have a status field at all. The other four say nothing about it. And for those two as well, the date of the file shown under every answer is what counts, not the authority's current status.
Does the information cost anything?
No, and it needs no account. The same information is available free of charge from every region — with us in English, in one place and with the date of the source alongside.
Before buying: the check by address
Buyers ask a different question, namely whether the property may be let later. For that there is the check by address: it says whether a register entry exists for an address, and it is also free of charge. It is one of twelve points of our property report.
Where this data comes from and how old it is
Six regions publish their register of holiday accommodation as a file, 329,948 entries in total.
| Register | Entries | Status included | Date of the file | imported |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andalucía – Registro de Turismo (OpenRTA), Viviendas | 36,715 | no | 19 Oct 2026 | 19 Oct 2026 |
| Canarias – Registro General Turístico, Viviendas vacacionales | 72,091 | no | 19 Oct 2026 | 19 Oct 2026 |
| Catalunya – Registre de Turisme de Catalunya, habitatges d'ús turístic | 108,776 | yes | 5 Oct 2026 | 19 Oct 2026 |
| Comunitat Valenciana – Viviendas de uso turístico | 90,063 | no | 18 Oct 2026 | 19 Oct 2026 |
| Mallorca – Registre d'habitatges turístics i estades turístiques | 16,924 | yes | 7 Sept 2026 | 19 Oct 2026 |
| Menorca – Estades i habitatges turístics de vacances | 5,379 | no | 7 Sept 2026 | 19 Oct 2026 |
There is no open data set for Ibiza, Formentera and Murcia (last checked on 22.09.2026); for the other regions of Spain we have no file. If the region is missing, the answer is “no data”, not “no entry”. The Andalusian file is demonstrably incomplete: it apparently only shows the entries released for publication.
Sources: the tourism registers of the Comunitat Valenciana, Catalonia, Andalusia, Mallorca, Menorca and the Canary Islands; the full attribution and the file date are under every answer. The compilation and the English labels are our own processing, not an official statement. We take no owner details from the registers, and we do not give out an address for a number. Not legal advice.