Valencia just rewrote the playbook on holiday rentals.

Valencia just rewrote the playbook on holiday rentals.No night cap.No licence freeze.A hard density ceiling written into planning law.The numbers:→ 2% max holiday rentals per neighbourhood→ 8% max tourist beds per district (hotels included)→ 15% max ground-floor tourist use→ Effective April 2026Why it's a big deal:It's not a tourism rule. It's a planning rule.That makes it harder to challenge.And easier to enforce through land use.The catch?9,000+ unregistered tourist apartments are still operating in Valencia.That's nearly double the city's hotel capacity.A density cap only works if the denominator is real.Madrid did it in August with the RESIDE Plan.Valencia did it this month.Málaga, Seville and Palma are next.The European model is shifting from "how many nights" to "how much of this neighbourhood."