13 January 2021 08:14 PM

Barcelona court rules 50% rent cut for renter of 26 tourist apartments due to Covid restrictions

Company reported 83% fall in profits, but landowner rejected repeated calls to reduce monthly payments

Business trips only bookings in Barcelona, AirBnB apartments become short-let flats, and hotels allowed to open from Monday not expected to do it

City authority also rents 200 tourist apartments for people at risk and opens three centers for homeless

The northern Catalan town of fewer than 900 inhabitants is seeing similar issues as Barcelona and Girona

Capital has 12 flats for every 1,000 inhabitants, more than Rome and London, finds joint Catalan-Canadian report

Visitors could be charged more to spend the night in the city if parliament makes the necessary changes to legislation

Affordable housing activists claim locals are being pushed out of their homes, while the Girona city council says there’s no issue

Increase in council tax for tourist apartments, as well as tourist surcharge, proposed by Barcelona Global

70% of hotels in Sitges already booked up for MWC

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