Airbnb took the lead on Thursday by offering new municipalities placed in a “tense zone”, more restrictive for furnished rentals, to help them if they wish to implement new rules such as compulsory registration.
Decides within the framework of the 2024 draft budget, the extension of the list of municipalities located in extended areas will make it easier for the latter to put in place restrictive measures on the rental of tourist furniture.
These municipalities may thus decide to require people wishing to rent their main residence to obtain a registration number or those wishing to rent their secondary residence request a change of usedevices already used by several cities such as Paris or Bordeaux.
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Airbnb invites in a press release the local elected officials of the 2,500 new cities to work jointly on the implementation and application proportionate local rules in order to preserve the available housing supply while allowing local families and businesses to benefit from tourism income.
In all cities having voted for change of use and registration, Airbnb will block advertisements for tourist furniture without a registration number and will continue to block rentals of main residences for 120 days in French cities that have implemented local rules, assures the group.
There is a real housing problem in France, that’s obvious. But the reasons are numerous. Airbnb’s liability is low, defended Emmanuel Marill, director of Airbnb for Europe, the Middle East and Asia, in a West-France interview on Thursday. Today, 250 cities have implemented regulations out of the 4,000 that can do so since the extension of the extended zone, he explains. The current regulations are sufficient, they just need to be applied.
The giant in the rental of housing between individuals, of which France is the second largest market, is also publishing for the occasion a study commissioned from the consulting firm PwC on the impact of short-term rentals. According to this study, at the country level, there are 1 million tourist properties92% of which are primary or secondary residences rented less than 120 days per year.
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