Owner’s community to the phenomenon of vacation rental

Abstract

The possible impact of vacation rental for the coexistence with neighbours, it has been one of the aspects that has focused on the intense debate which has existed in Spain and due to its importance it has also been one of the aspects that it has been taken into account in the regulatory field. The objective of this work is, on the one hand, to expose the regulation and reforms that have taken place with the proposal to respond to the phenomenon of vacation rental and, on the other, to analyze the scope of the modification operated by Royal Decree-Law 7/2019, regarding the qualified majority necessary to allow that owner’s community may restrict or condition the exercise of the tourism activity, and whose regulation with similar terms were already contemplated in the Civil Code of Catalonia.