Illegal tourist flat crackdown in Spain: Building in Mallorca made up of 12 unlicensed Airbnb-style homes is fined almost 1million [Video]

MASSIVE fines totalling €960,000 against 12 unlicensed holiday apartment rentals in a Palma building have been notified by the Consell de Mallorca’s Tourism Department.

The block is in the Levante area of the Mallorcan capital and the penalty works out at €80,000 per apartment.

The Consell de Mallorca has not clarified whether the building owner faces the large bill or whether there are individual apartment owners that will be penalised.

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The previous tariffs reached a maximum of €40,001 per let which was not licensed for tourist purposes.

The Consell- in a statement- made it clear that the increased fine aims to ‘dissuade people from carrying out this activity and putting an end to it’.

The authority advocates ‘protecting residents and guaranteeing the legal …