If you manage vacation rentals or short-term rentals in Spain, there’s a new obligation you cannot ignore. Order VAU/1560/2025 came into effect on January 2, 2026, and with it comes the annual informative model: a mandatory annual declaration that affects all holders of temporary rental registrations.
The problem is that many property owners are unaware of this regulation or assume that complying with SES.Hospedajes is enough. It isn’t. These are completely independent obligations, and failure to comply with the informative model could cost you your registration number.
In this guide, we break down the 7 most important keys you need to understand to comply correctly and protect your business.
Table of Contents
- What Exactly Is the Informative Model
- Who Is Required to Submit It
- Submission Deadlines: Critical Dates
- What Information You Must Declare
- Available Submission Formats
- Relationship with SES.Hospedajes
- Consequences of Non-Compliance
1. What Exactly Is the Informative Model
The informative model doesn’t create a new registry. It’s an annual informative obligation that must be fulfilled by those who already have an NRUA (Unique Rental Registration Number) for short-term rentals.
This regulation develops Article 10.4 of Royal Decree 1312/2024 and aligns with European Regulation (EU) 2024/1028 on short-term rental data exchange.
The objective is clear: to allow authorities to evaluate the real impact of temporary rentals and apply proportionate regulatory responses.
2. Who Is Required to Submit It
Here’s one of the most important surprises: it doesn’t only affect tourist rentals.
The Order covers all categories of temporary rentals subject to RD 1312/2024:
- Vacation and tourist rentals
- Work-related rentals
- Student rentals
- Medical treatment stays
- Any other use that doesn’t constitute permanent residence
The responsibility falls on the NRUA holder. If a management company acts as the landlord and appears in the registry, it can submit the model. Otherwise, the owner or their authorized representative must do so.
3. Submission Deadlines: Critical Dates
The first submission is during February 2026, with data corresponding to the 2025 calendar year.
From then on, the obligation repeats annually every February with the previous year’s information.
Key points about deadlines:
- No automatic extensions are planned
- NRUAs with no activity must still be submitted, explicitly marking the “no activity” box
- Stays prior to NRUA granting cannot be declared
The official model is available in the Annex of Order VAU/1560/2025, published in the BOE on December 31, 2025.
4. What Information You Must Declare
The informative model collects specific data for each stay, all of it anonymized to comply with GDPR.
Mandatory fields:
- Identifying data of the presenter (NRUA holder)
- Unique Registry Code (CRU) of the property
- For each stay: NRUA, rental purpose, number of guests, check-in date, and check-out date
The purpose is coded numerically:
- Vacation/tourist
- Work-related
- Studies
- Medical reasons
- Other
This model has no direct tax purpose, although documentation may be requested in tax inspections through other legal channels.
5. Available Submission Formats
You have two options for submitting the model:
Paper Submission
Done in person at the Property Registry or Movable Property Registry, with the printed model filled out beforehand from the electronic headquarters.
Electronic Submission (recommended)
Uses XBRL format with the “2025 Rental XBRL Taxonomy.” The official version is available free of charge at:
- Electronic headquarters of the College of Registrars (registradores.org)
- Single Digital Window for Rentals of the Ministry of Housing
Currently, there’s no commercial software yet specifically for generating these XBRL files, although the official tool is expected to be available soon.
Submission can also be made through a duly authorized representative.
6. Relationship with SES.Hospedajes: They Are Independent Obligations
This is one of the points that generates the most confusion. Complying with SES.Hospedajes does not exempt you from the annual informative model, and vice versa.
They are completely different administrative circuits:
| System | Purpose |
|---|---|
| SES.Hospedajes | Public safety (communication of traveler data to authorities) |
| Annual Informative Model | Registry (control of property use as short-term rentals) |
Annual Informative Model information is only shared with competent public administrations, always complying with data protection regulations.
7. Consequences of Non-Compliance
The consequences of not submitting the model or doing so incorrectly can be severe.
Possible consequences:
- Registry incidents and requests from the Registrar
- Request for additional supporting documentation (contracts, invoices, receipts)
- Withdrawal of the NRUA registration number
- Cancellation of the registry marginal note
The Order doesn’t establish its own economic sanctions, but autonomous communities may apply their tourism sanction regulations complementarily.
Isolated formal errors don’t automatically trigger cancellation, but repeated errors or serious inconsistencies can lead to more serious consequences if not corrected in time.
This Is Too Much to Manage Manually
If you’ve made it this far, you’re probably thinking the same thing as many property owners: between SES.Hospedajes, the informative model, regional regulations, and traveler registries, the administrative burden of managing vacation rentals has become overwhelming.
Each stay involves multiple communications to different bodies, with different deadlines, specific formats, and real consequences for non-compliance.
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