Airbnb: From October 1 new rules for short-term rentals – Raids begin by AADE and Ministry of Tourism

Countdown to the caller rules that volition use from October 1, 2025, successful short-term rentals. The Ministry of Tourism, successful practice with AADE, has already started sending informational emails to spot owners who person progressive Property Registration Numbers (AMA), truthful they tin hole for the changes.

The Ministries of Finance and Tourism are determined to intervene arsenic overmuch arsenic they can, arsenic the concern successful areas with precocious lodging unit is perpetually worsening. In Attica, successful cardinal Athens alone, astir 60,000 short-term rental listings are recorded, resulting successful the semipermanent rental marketplace drying up.

On the Aegean islands, arsenic good arsenic successful fashionable mainland destinations, the occupation is twofold: connected the 1 hand, tourists easy find accommodation done the platform; connected the different hand, imperishable residents, doctors, teachers and civilian servants person obscurity to live. In the Cyclades, for instance, semipermanent rental ads person astir disappeared, with the fewer disposable homes offered astatine prices reminiscent of cardinal London.

The missive reaching owners leaves nary country for doubt:
“Dear Madam / Dear Sir, since you person progressive AMA numbers successful the AADE Short-Term Rental Property Registry, we pass you of the caller requirements that volition use from 1/10/2025 and interest your circumstantial properties.”

Specifically, each short-term rental properties indispensable cumulatively beryllium primary-use spaces with earthy light, ventilation and aerial conditioning, beryllium insured against civilian liability for harm oregon accidents, person a certified electrician’s information declaration, occurrence extinguishers, fume detectors, residual-current devices (anti-shock switches), and flight signage, person a rodent and pest power certificate, a first-aid kit, arsenic good arsenic a usher with exigency telephone numbers.

To verify compliance, officials from the Ministry of Tourism oregon associated teams with AADE volition behaviour on-site inspections, with astatine slightest 10 days’ announcement via email. Inspectors volition transportation work IDs and a written bid with the employee’s and property’s details.

For managers who bash not let entry, neglect to conscionable requirements, oregon bash not comply with the law, an administrative good of €5,000 is imposed. In lawsuit of a repetition discourtesy wrong 1 year, the good doubles, portion with each consequent repetition usurpation it quadruples.

Practically speaking, from October 1 the caller operational model officially comes into effect and is expected to reshape the representation of short-term rentals. Every spot volition beryllium required to person civilian liability insurance, a certified electrician’s information declaration, fume detectors, residual-current devices, occurrence extinguishers, flight signage and a first-aid kit. A rodent and pest power certificate volition besides beryllium required, arsenic good arsenic a usher with exigency telephone numbers and afloat specifications for lighting, ventilation and aerial conditioning.

Inspections volition beryllium continuous and on-site, with associated teams from the Ministry of Tourism and AADE visiting properties and signaling violations. Any proprietor not gathering the requirements volition look a €5,000 fine, which doubles to €10,000 successful lawsuit of repetition discourtesy and quadruples to €20,000. Even refusal of entree to inspectors is considered a usurpation and entails contiguous sanction.

The authorities is betting that with the operation of stricter rules and the caller “freeze” connected permits, it volition win successful slowing down the runaway maturation of Airbnb. The challenge, however, is tough, arsenic the income a spot proprietor earns from short-term rentals is aggregate times higher than from a semipermanent lease. Thus, adjacent with the other outgo of compliance, astir proceed to travel retired ahead. That is why, contempt restrictions, the fig of listings keeps rising astatine grounds pace.