Post by High Priestess on Apr 28, 2016 15:10:01 GMT
See the article:
www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/airbnb-dumps-berlin-holiday-flats-before-city-crackdown-1.2628000
"Berlin tenants are cheering – and Berlin tourists fuming – after Airbnb purged thousands of apartments from its site ahead of a crackdown on holiday rentals starting May 1st.
Within a month, Airbnb has almost halved its Berlin listings to 6,700, banning thousands of landlords who were letting entire apartments on a commercial basis. A search on Wednesday showed just 306 apartments available in June.
Amid spiking rents and a growing housing shortage in the German capital, local politicians and tenant groups have welcomed the Airbnb move.
It comes days before the end of a two-year transition period for a new law forbidding commercial, short-term rentals of apartments to tourists of apartments without a city permit. Anyone who does so from Sunday risks a fine of €100,000. Studies estimate the number of holiday lets in Berlin at about 15,000, while just 6,300 landlords have applied for a holiday rentals permit."
Some thoughts: this is similar to what Airbnb is doing in many other cities -- London, Amsterdam, Rome, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York.
www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/airbnb-dumps-berlin-holiday-flats-before-city-crackdown-1.2628000
"Berlin tenants are cheering – and Berlin tourists fuming – after Airbnb purged thousands of apartments from its site ahead of a crackdown on holiday rentals starting May 1st.
Within a month, Airbnb has almost halved its Berlin listings to 6,700, banning thousands of landlords who were letting entire apartments on a commercial basis. A search on Wednesday showed just 306 apartments available in June.
Amid spiking rents and a growing housing shortage in the German capital, local politicians and tenant groups have welcomed the Airbnb move.
It comes days before the end of a two-year transition period for a new law forbidding commercial, short-term rentals of apartments to tourists of apartments without a city permit. Anyone who does so from Sunday risks a fine of €100,000. Studies estimate the number of holiday lets in Berlin at about 15,000, while just 6,300 landlords have applied for a holiday rentals permit."
Some thoughts: this is similar to what Airbnb is doing in many other cities -- London, Amsterdam, Rome, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York.