Expansion of restrictions

The prohibition connected caller short-term rental offerings successful cardinal Athens will not lone beryllium extended by will besides use to different areas successful the country, fixed its affirmative results to date, with the authorities presently assessing the regions to beryllium targeted for its application.

The authorities is expected to widen and perchance grow interventions successful the short-term rental market, with the purpose of some expanding the supply of semipermanent lodging to alleviate the unit connected the lodging occupation and protecting the quality of neighborhoods and section communities successful fashionable tourist destinations.

According to what Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said astatine the Thessaloniki International Fair, the anticipation of extending the prohibition connected caller Airbnb-like offerings successful the three municipal districts of Athens for different year is considered, while the hold of this measurement to different areas of the state is besides being assessed.

It has been decided to widen the three-year tax exemption for owners who take to rent retired their spot connected a semipermanent lease, while antecedently they were available connected the short-term rental market; an inducement whose results aft astir a year of implementation are considered encouraging.

Regarding the areas to which the prohibition connected the introduction of caller properties into the short-term rental marketplace whitethorn beryllium extended, aft the three districts of Athens, experts notation to statistics from the Institute of the Greek Tourism Confederation and ELSTAT and to destinations where this enactment appears to beryllium peculiarly precocious compared to the nationalist average. According to them, the mean fig of accommodations available for short-term rentals per 1,000 imperishable residents successful Greece is 46. These figures notation to 2024 and are estimated to person accrued this year. In the Cyclades, however, the mean fig of accommodations per 1,000 residents is 611, while successful the Ionian Islands it is 340 and successful the Dodecanese 125. It is noted that within each portion the figures disagree further depending connected the destination. Therefore, successful Mykonos and Santorini the fig of accommodations per 1,000 residents is higher than the 611 successful the Cyclades successful general.

In the meantime, from October 1 the regulatory model introduced by Minister of Tourism Olga Kefalogianni will travel into force, which provides for elaborate terms and specifications for the cognition of each apartments and houses arsenic short-term rental accommodation, regulating the marketplace further.