Valencia Caps Tourist Apartments at 2% Per Neighbourhood
Valencia's PGOU modification has permanently replaced its 2-year moratorium with three cumulative saturation locks. Twenty-five neighbourhoods are already at the 2% cap. If you hold a VUT licence or are waiting on a frozen application, here is what the new rules mean for your operation right now.
Valencia has permanently capped tourist apartments at 2% of housing stock per neighbourhood, replacing a two-year moratorium with a permanent saturation-control regime. The PGOU modification, approved by the city’s Pleno on 31 March 2026 and in force since approximately 19 May 2026, imposes three cumulative locks at neighbourhood, district, and city-block levels. If any single lock is breached, new VUT licences are automatically blocked in that zone.
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