Airbnb clamps down on unregistered Paris rentals

Paris won a major court fight against Airbnb on July 1, 2021 after a court ordered the home-sharing giant to pay a fine of €8mil for allowing over 1,000 listings to flout registration rules. — AFP

PARIS: Airbnb will require Paris landlords to prove their apartments have been registered with city hall starting July 1, its latest move to ease tensions with officials who accuse the home-sharing giant of flouting laws and driving up property prices.

The registrations, required since 2018, aim to make sure that homes in Paris, one of Airbnb's biggest markets, are not rented out more than 120 nights a year and that incomes are declared to tax authorities.