Last Thursday, Airbnb agreed to modify its website. The update limits the number of days a property can be let per year. According to the City of Amsterdam, this agreement has made it more difficult to use properties as illegal hotels. With these kind of rules and agreements, the municipality wants to ensure that houses, which are used illegally for tourist rentals, will become available again for house hunters. The legal limit that a resident is allowed to rent out his house to tourists is 60 days a year in Amsterdam, as you can read in previous blog. In practice, however, many properties are available for longer rentals on the Airbnb website, and are also rented out more than those 60 days. This is already actively enforced by the municipality, and there are hefty fines for this violation.
As of January 1, 2017, hosts will be able to see in their Airbnb account how many days they are still allowed to rent, and will not be able to rent the property for the rest of the year if they passed the 60-day limit. [1][2]
Would you like to know more? Please feel free to contact us.
Ginio Beij (beij@m2advocaten.nl)
