Living in Bordeaux, you are used to renting your main residence to tourists or business travelers when you go on vacation or on weekends, via platforms like Airbnb or booking. An additional welcome income, which you consider it would be a shame to deprive yourself in such a run city. Take advantage of it because the rules for the rental of tourist furnishings will harden in Bordeaux. On July 8, the municipal council adopted a deliberation which lowered from 120 to 90 days The maximum annual duration of rental of the main residences in tourist furnishings. Or 30 days less, all the same!
Admittedly, unlike rental investments rented “in airbnb” rather than long duration, the punctual rental of main residences in tourist furnishings does not deprive housing of families wishing to rent a year. But “It contributes to the progressive devitalization of the city center(with) the replacement of permanent inhabitants by a passage population and the growing specialization of local businesses, to the detriment of the daily needs of residents ”explains in deliberation Stéphane Pfeiffer, deputy mayor of Bordeaux. And the elected official to add that “Short -term rental, even when concerning the main residence, generates a multiplication of noise pollutionlinked to the attendance of the common areas of the buildings ”.
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A bypass of the rules for the rental of tourist furnishings
Stéphane Pfeiffer also judges “Difficult to conceive that accommodation used for the main housing can be simultaneously rented for tourism 120 days a year”. In fact, being absent from home almost a third of the year is a lot. He thus suspects “”bypass “ short -term furnished rental rules by “Some rental companies, who pass their second home for their main residence in order to escape the compensation system in force” in the city.
Indeed, in Bordeaux, as in other cities, if you want to dedicate a rental investment or a second home to furnished tourism rental, you must “compensate»The accommodation thus lost for long -term rental. Concretely, from an existing room which is not currently used for housing, such as an office or a business, you must create accommodation, which will be assigned to long -term rental. Not easy …
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15,000 euros fine
To lower the maximum rental duration of the main residences in tourist furnishings from 120 days to 90, the town hall of Bordeaux relied on the law called “anti-aiirbnb” November 19, 2024, which provides for this provision. Which will come into force on January 1, 2026 in Bordeaux. Ditto in Nice, which adopted a similar deliberation on May 23, in the wake of Marseille (April 25), Avignon (February 22) or even Paris, which had voted this measure from December 19, for an entry into force on January 1, 2025. The capital wants to “Allowing (it is up to its inhabitants to grant themselves) a supplement of income but not to transform their main residence into an almost professional source of income”. In Paris, Bordeaux or elsewhere, if you do not respect this rule, it can cost you … 15,000 euros fine.
