a report measures the influence of tourist rental to the detriment of housing for Ile-de-France residents

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The unpublished figures, published Thursday, May 27, by the Paris Region Institute, establish indisputably what the platforms of seasonal rentals of the Airbnb type have always denied: their massive impact on the switch of the Parisian stock of main residences to the profit tourists and to the detriment of locals.

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At the request of the Ile-de-France region, this town planning institute precisely measured this supply in all municipalities based on two databases, the American AirDNA, focused on Airbnb and Abritel-HomeAway, and the French Trackeet which auscultates the ads published on twelve sites, the two leaders but also Booking, TripAdvisor, Leboncoin, SeLoger, PAP … Trackeet shows, by the way, the overwhelming weight of Airbnb which trusts around 80% of the ads (76% in Paris , 84% in the inner suburbs), ahead of Abritel-HomeAway (11.5%) or Booking (7%).

The study confirms the spectacular explosion, in a few years, of the phenomenon of tourist rental in Paris and its region. Between 2011, the date of Airbnb’s arrival in France, and 2019, before the pandemic, the offer went from 20,000 to 88,000 apartments in Paris alone – 120,000 for the entire region.

“An illegal offer”

According to the authors, 29% of these dwellings are rented for more than 120 days per year, a period beyond which the law imposes an authorization and a change of use – which must pass from “residential” to “commercial” – in the municipalities which have adopted this regulation, such as Paris. This share of quasi-professional rentals rises to 35% in Hauts-de-Seine and 31% in Val-de-Marne.

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Now, says the report, “If we consider the difficulties that a lessor must face in theory to propose a legal offer of this type in the capital, [puisqu’il doit] in particular, compensate for the lost living space, or even double (…) in the central districts, everything therefore suggests that a majority of these Parisian vacation rentals are simply an illegal offer. “

From 2011 to 2017, according to figures from the Insee census, the capital certainly gained 26,700 housing units but, for the first time, lost 23,900 main residences in favor of secondary or occasional residences which grew by 50 600 units in the same period. The study estimates that 40% of the drop in the number of main residences is attributable to tourist rental which now captures 6% of Parisian homes, a proportion which climbs to 18% in the 2e arrondissement, 16% in the 3e, 13% in the 4e and more than 9% within 8e, 9e and 10e boroughs.

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