Malaga, a vibrant, historic port city on southern Spain’s Costa del Sol within the autonomous community of Andalusia, the sixth largest city in the country , uniquely blending a 3.000 - year old heritage with a modern, cosmopolitan energy, birthplace of the famed painter Pablo Picasso, highlighted by a refined architecture, urban beaches and a mild climate year round, through its City Council with the aim to curb tourist overcrowding is considering two moratoriums: one for tourism apartments and hotels of three stars or less, and another to prevent shops from ending up as tourist apartments.
The city is working on a General Municipal Plan that design the future of Malaga, replaceing the current one, established in 2011. On 27th May 2026 with the government team led by the Mayor Francisco de la Torre Prado started to work on two moratoriums. The first aims to freeze permits for new tourist apartment blocks for a year, and the second prohibits the opening of hotels with three stars or less.
Furthermore, the conversion of commercial premises into holiday apartments will be banned.
The amendment to the General Urban Development Plan (PGOM) will include these specific measures :
• Tourist apartments: Projects for entire buildings intended for short - term rentals will be halted, a sector that had doubled its application in the last year following previous restrictions on individual apartments.
• Hotels: The moratorium only affects establishments with three stars or less, allowing the development of four – star opr higher in an attempt to prioritise a higher – quality model.
• Commercial Premises: Any conversion of commercial premises for tourist use will be strictly blocked, although their transformation will be permitted if the purpose is residential.
• Timeframe: The measures will have an initial duration of at least one year while the new regulations are drafted.
For the opposition, these moratoriums are insufficient, firstly because of the time frame as it demanded at the May plenary session that the moratoriums for tourist apartments and hotels be for five years and furthermore, the ban in effect since last year on the opening of new tourism apartments has to be extended to that period, these dwellings have a different legal status than tourist apartments, and the current moratorium is for three years.
In addition the opposition also requests that the five - year moratorium prohibition include changes of use commercial premises for speculative purposes.
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