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Renting your flat to tourists in Seville: what each municipality allows in 2026

In Seville city, no new tourist homes are admitted in the 11 neighbourhoods of the Casco Antiguo and Triana that exceed the 10 % cap, and in the rest of the city the dwelling must first be switched to lodging use. In Dos Hermanas, Carmona, Écija, Osuna, Mairena del Aljarafe and Alcalá de Guadaíra there is no recorded municipal limit. What to check before you start, with date and source.

Reviewed on 6 October 2026

In short: in the province of Seville, the limits are in Seville city. There is a cap on tourist homes per neighbourhood (10 % of the dwellings) that leaves 11 neighbourhoods of the Casco Antiguo (old town) and Triana closed to new registrations, and in the rest of the city the dwelling must change its use to lodging at the Gerencia de Urbanismo (municipal urban planning department) before it can be registered. In the other municipalities we have reviewed there is no published municipal limit, although in all of them you need to check that the urban plan allows it.

Can I open a new tourist home in Seville city?

It depends on the neighbourhood, and there is always a planning procedure first.

1. The neighbourhood cap. On 17 October 2024 the City Council plenary approved a maximum number of tourist homes for each of the city's 108 neighbourhoods, calculated as 10 % of their family dwellings (32,400 in total). It was published in the Boletín Oficial de la Provincia de Sevilla (provincial gazette) no. 210 of 28 October 2024 and has no expiry date. The Gerencia de Urbanismo divides the city into three zones:

Zone Neighbourhoods New registrations allowed?
Decrease (over 10 %) 11 neighbourhoods of the Casco Antiguo and traditional Triana: Santa Cruz, Arenal, Alfalfa, San Bartolomé, Feria, Encarnación-Regina, Santa Catalina, San Lorenzo, San Gil, San Vicente and Triana Casco Antiguo No
Limited growth (between 5 and 10 %) San Julián, Museo and San Bernardo Yes, until the neighbourhood's maximum is reached
Growth (under 5 %) The other 94 neighbourhoods (Nervión, Los Remedios, Triana Este and Oeste, etc.) Yes, with the change of use in point 2

The quota is per neighbourhood and it moves: if homes are deregistered, a neighbourhood can have room again. When you register the home, the Andalusian Tourism Registry shows an automatic warning if the cadastral reference is in a limited zone.

2. The change of use to lodging. Since June 2022 (amendment no. 44 of the Plan General), Seville's General Urban Plan (PGOU) treats the tourist home as a lodging use, not a residential one. Before registering it with the Junta, you must file with the Gerencia de Urbanismo the declaración responsable (sworn statement) of change of use and the one for first occupancy, with the building's technical inspection (ITE) already submitted. The Plan General also sets compatibility conditions in residential buildings (floor, access): check them with the Gerencia before spending a single euro. The official guide to the procedure is on the Seville Urban Planning website (link in the sources).

What is being prepared in Seville?

The same 2024 plenary commissioned a new report to set limits with different criteria by zone (neighbourhoods where families make a big effort to pay for housing, acoustically saturated or heritage areas). As of 6 October 2026 nothing new has been approved. In July 2025 the Junta de Andalucía included Seville in its list of municipalities with a suspension of tourist homes, but we have not found a municipal suspension agreement other than the neighbourhood cap: in practice, in the centre, the effect is the same.

And in the rest of the province?

In these municipalities we have found no published municipal limit or suspension (search of the provincial gazette, municipal websites and 2025-2026 press, as of 6 October 2026). That is not a certificate: each municipality's urban plan must allow the use, and it is advisable to request planning information from the town hall before you start.

Municipality Municipal limit? Active tourist homes (INE, May 2026)
Dos Hermanas None recorded 98
Carmona None recorded 107
Écija None recorded 67
Osuna None recorded 12
Mairena del Aljarafe None recorded 81
Alcalá de Guadaíra None recorded 80

In Dos Hermanas, a council group asked in September 2024 for a by-law to regulate and limit tourist homes; there is no record of it being approved.

How many tourist homes are there?

According to the INE (Spanish National Statistics Institute), in May 2026 there were 6,937 active tourist homes in Seville city (2.12 % of its dwellings). The INE counts active listings on the platforms, not registrations in the Junta's registry, so the official number of registered homes is higher. In the province, outside the capital, the figures are small: none of the municipalities in the table reaches 1 % of its dwellings.

What to check before you start, wherever you are

  1. That your municipality's urban plan allows tourist use in your home: Do I need an urban planning compatibility certificate? and Can my town hall suspend new tourist homes?.
  2. That your owners' association approves it by a three-fifths majority: Can my owners' association ban it?.
  3. That the home meets the Junta's requirements: requirements for the flat.
  4. Then, the registration: how the licence is processed.

The rules common to the whole region are in Andalusia by province.

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