The Councillor for Urban Planning, Housing, and Licenses, Juan Giner (PP), highlighted that the annual average of closure files for these accommodations has multiplied by six, increasing from 71 to 449 annually since 2023. This improvement is attributed to the entry into force of the new municipal regulations for the hotel tertiary sector, considered the most restrictive in Spain for tourist-use housing.

The new regulation opens a different stage after almost two years of temporary suspension of tourist accommodation licenses and the reinforcement of urban discipline measures. These actions have allowed 85% of the closure orders to have already been executed.

In parallel to inspection work, the municipal plenary session agreed in May 2024 on the precautionary suspension of new tourist licenses, a measure that was extended in January 2025 and will be in force until the recently approved regulations come into effect. During this moratorium period, 363 license files have been suspended, preventing the creation of 4,697 new tourist places.

The new regulation replaces the moratorium with a permanent system of saturation indicators that acts on all neighborhoods and districts of València to protect residents' right to live in their city. Mayor María José Catalá (PP) stressed that the three "locks" established, along with additional conditions (ground floors, independent access, authorization from neighborhood communities), will make opening a tourist apartment in València "almost impossible".

Finally, Catalá pointed to the regulation of digital platforms that advertise tourist accommodations without a license as a "pending issue" for the Central Government. She highlighted that, despite the reduction of 1,000 tourist homes offered on these platforms in one year, irregular homes still remain, and insisted on the need for the Government of Spain to prevent the advertising of apartments without a license.