In 2020, at the end of the first confinement, neighbors of the apartment had protested against the nuisance caused by noisy tenants, by hanging banners “Stop Airbnb”. The town hall of Paris welcomes a landmark first.
A real estate agency was sentenced in Paris for having rented an apartment without authorization on the Airbnb and Booking platforms, a first hailed by the City of Paris. In a judgment dated June 29 consulted by AFP on Friday, the Paris court sentenced the owner of an apartment in the 20th arrondissement of the capital and the agency managing his property to a fine of 8,000 euros each. A company mandated by the agency was also fined 2,500 euros.
They are accused of having put this apartment on tourist rental sites between October 2018 and August 2020 when it was not planned for this purpose. In 2020, the end of the first confinement, neighbors of the apartment had protested against the nuisance caused by noisy tenants, by hanging Stop Airbnb banners.
According to the deputy (PCF) to the mayor of Paris in charge of housing, Ian Brossat, this is the first time that the town hall has obtained the conviction of an agency and a concierge in a case of illegal tourist rental.
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It is fortunate that not only the owners are condemned, but also this parallel economy which has developed on the fringes of the law and which allows this cannibalization of our housing surface, reacted the communist elected official to AFP.
It is a way of telling them that they will eventually be caught by the patrol, he added. The city of Paris has been railing for a long time against furnished tourist accommodation, which it accuses of accentuating the shortage of housing in the capital.
I consider it a non-event, told AFP the lawyer for the real estate agency, Xavier Demeuzoy. The City of Paris has already condemned a large number of resumptions of concierge services. It was considered that there was no appeal. Because we have one of the lowest fines possible, added Me Demeuzoy.
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