PropertyHost is the author
PropertyHost doesn't sign articles with a personal name. The brand is responsible. That means one concrete thing: no anonymous consultants, no "experts" without traceability. If something is wrong, we own it as an organisation and we correct it at the source.
Why: Spanish vacation rental is a field where blogs copy each other without ever citing the original BOE. We've seen wrong entry-into-force dates, fabricated fine amounts, and even decrees that had already been repealed. That hurts real hosts who make decisions based on it.
That's why, in every JSON-LD block on the site, our author/publisher is always Organization, never Person. It's a conscious choice, not an oversight.
The editorial process
1. Research. We locate the applicable statutes (Ley, Real Decreto, Decret autonómic, Orden) in the BOE, DOGC or BOIB, read the relevant articles, and build an outline of the points the host must understand.
2. Drafting. We write in plain language while keeping the technical terms. We preserve exact references: article number, date of the rule, BOE identifier. The reader can line up every sentence with the original text.
3. Independent fact-check. Before publishing, a separate reviewer (not the writer) checks every figure, every article number, every reference. If a claim can't be verified against a primary source, it goes out or is rewritten.
4. Web verification. Links are tested, BOE-IDs are searched, fine amounts are checked against the latest consolidated text. Pages that don't pass this step are marked draft (X-Robots-Tag: noindex) until the team manually re-checks the source.
Primary sources only
We cite primary, official sources only: BOE for state laws and royal decrees, AEAT for national tax forms, Ministry of the Interior for SES.Hospedajes, Portal Jurídic de la Generalitat for Catalan regulation, CAIB/BOIB for Balearic regulation, ATIB for Balearic taxes, and Mossos d'Esquadra for the Catalan register.
What we don't cite: other property-management blogs, generalist press articles (context only, never legal basis), forums, social media. For a legal question the right answer is in the consolidated text of the law, not in something someone wrote on a blog two years ago.
The full list of sources we use lives at /en/fuentes.
What we don't do
No AI summarising without human verification. Models hallucinate legal references — documented cases of made-up BOE-IDs exist. Verification against the real BOE is manual and mandatory on every article.
No publishing without fact-check. If we have doubts we can't resolve against a primary source, the page stays in draft (noindex) until clarity exists.
No fine amounts without a link to the current statute that sets them.
No rewriting other blogs. Every text is built from the original source.
Dates and review
Every article carries a visible last-reviewed date (green "Fact-checked" badge). That date is when we last checked against the primary source — not the first publication date.
Spanish law changes: Ley 12/2023 amended the LAU; RDL 6/2023 introduced the fast-track ruling against squatters; ATIB revises IEET amounts annually. We re-check at least quarterly for tax forms and fine schedules, annually for consolidated statutes, and immediately when a relevant change is published in the BOE.
If an article hasn't been re-verified in the last 12 months we flip the badge to "Under review" and warn the reader.
Errors and corrections
Found a mistake? Email us with the link and the citation. Procedure:
Verifiable facts. Corrected within 48 hours; the last-reviewed date is updated.
Structural changes. If the rule has changed we rewrite the affected section and log the change in our internal changelog.
Ambiguities. If the doubt comes from a vague statute, we say so explicitly. We don't fake certainty we don't have.
We don't edit articles silently: any factual change shows up in the review date.
Report an error: write to hola@propertyhost.es