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Ireland Moved The Number

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2026/10/06

If you are working to a 14-day rule for short-term lets in Ireland, that number was repealed 7 months ago.Since 1 March 2026 the planning definition has been a letting "for a period not exceeding 21 consecutive nights". Section 30 of the Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2026 substituted it into section 3A of the Planning and Development Act 2000, and Statutory Instrument 67 of 2026 commenced that section on 1 March. The same substitution dropped the rent pressure zone limit, so

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00:02:50

Snap Election!

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2026/10/05

Spain has called a general election, and the short-let VAT charge went down 3 days before it.On Friday 2 October the lower house threw out both of the government's housing decrees. Two separate resolutions in the state gazette of the same day, 1 per decree, under article 86.2 of the constitution. This morning the Prime Minister said he is dissolving parliament and going to the country on 29 November. Treat the date as reported: the dissolution decree is not in today's gazette, and electoral law puts

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00:02:57

Spain Votes Today

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2026/10/02

Spain's statistics office published 2 surveys this morning and the demand line is the strongest in months.Non-resident tourists whose main accommodation in August was a rented home: 1,570,585, up 13.7%.Hotels managed 6.6%. More than double the rate.Then read the footnote.A tourist dwelling advertised on a booking platform lands in that rented-home category only if it is not on a regional tourism register. Registered ones are counted as tourist apartments instead.And the tourist apartment survey,

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00:02:26

Your Text Flow Just Broke

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2026/10/01

Booking.com stopped sending guest phone numbers to connectivity providers on Monday 28 September. If you run units through a channel manager or a property management system, it is worth checking today rather than next week.From Booking's own connectivity changelog:"The Reservations API no longer includes phone numbers of guests globally as of September 28, 2026."The migration guide, dated 23 September, is wider than that line suggests. From 28 September all new reservation payloads omit the number,

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00:02:53

62 Days To Reprice

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2026/09/30

Spain ended the VAT exemption on short-term rentals this morning.Royal decree-law 26/2026 was signed on Tuesday 29 September and published in the official state gazette today, reference BOE-A-2026-20266. From 1 December a furnished let of 30 nights or fewer to the same guest is no longer exempt. It is taxed at 10%, the hospitality rate.The exemption was already lost where the landlord supplied hotel-type services, and that test survives word for word. What the decree adds is an alternative trigger

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00:02:52

The Duty With No Door

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2026/09/29

Munich has had a short-term rental registration duty since 1 August, with a 50,000 euro fine attached, and no way to register.Both come from the city's own documents.The change-of-use by-law of 9 July 2026 creates the duty at section 5a. The council resolved it on 1 July, it was gazetted on 30 July, and it came into force on 1 August. Section 14 makes failing to register before you list, or failing to display the number, an administrative offence carrying up to 50,000 euros.Munich's council guidance

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00:03:02

Slovenia's 31 October Problem

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2026/09/28

Koper's council sits tomorrow on a 270-day short-let cap, the most Slovenia's new law allows. It is still a cut, and Koper's own papers say so.Slovenia's hospitality act has applied since January. In May 2 ministers listed 14 municipalities where, for 2027 and 2028, the default falls to 60 days a year per dwelling. They include Ljubljana, Koper, Izola, Piran, Bled, Bohinj, Kranjska Gora and Radovljica.A listed council can substitute anything from 30 to 270 days. For that to apply from 1 January, it

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00:02:55

File It Anyway

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2026/09/25

Spain's hotels took 166.90 euros a night per occupied room in August, up 7.3%. Revenue per available room reached 133.10 euros, up 7.0%. Nights rose 1.4%.The price index rose 6.3%, not 7.3%, so part of that move is composition rather than pricing. Resident nights fell 1.1%, non-residents rose 2.8%. Non-residents are carrying this market, Spaniards are stepping back.And it is the hotel survey. Spain's statistics office has not published August for tourist apartments, so anyone quoting those figures

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00:02:29

234 To 1500

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2026/09/24

Poland charges a tourist fee in 234 of its municipalities. The law its lower house passed on Friday opens that to about 1,500.Today a town qualifies only if it has favourable climatic properties as well as landscape merit. The new text keeps landscape merit and drops the climate test, and the government's own impact assessment puts the reach at about 1,500 municipalities.Then it changes who collects.If you hold Polish stock you are probably collecting already. The impact assessment, in translation,

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00:02:22

Unbegrenzt Möglich

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2026/09/23

In 2025 Vienna approved 132 conversions. From January it is closing that door.First, a correction to 14 July. I said Vienna was enforcing its 90-day cap in residential zones. The cap is not zoned. § 119 Abs 2a Bauordnung für Wien applies to every flat in the city. What is zoned is the way out: the § 129 Abs 1a exemption is only available "wenn ... sich die Wohnung nicht in einer Wohnzone ... befindet". Inside a Wohnzone there is no exemption route at all.Which is why the conversion route mattered,

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00:02:50

37 Days

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2026/09/21

The headline last week was a tax raid on holiday cottages. The document underneath says something narrower, and it does not say when.On 2 September Markus Campbell-Savours, Labour MP for Penrith and Solway, tabled written question 26763. He asked whether the Treasury had assessed the case for removing commercially let self-catering accommodation from non-domestic rating.James Murray, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, answered on 10 September. He did not answer that question.His words: "Concerns

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00:03:23

All Of It Was Rate

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2026/09/18

European short-term rental revenue rose again in August, and all of it came from rate.AirDNA's European review, published 15 September:RevPAR up 4.3% to €112.74. ADR up 7.5% to €160.10. Occupancy down 2.1 percentage points to 70.4%. Demand nights down 3.1% to 66.4 million.Multiply the rate by the occupancy and you land on the RevPAR to the cent. Revenue grew, volume shrank. If you discounted through August to chase occupancy, you went backwards while the market went forwards.One thing worth reading

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00:02:44

£1,400 A Property

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2026/09/17

Wales opens its visitor accommodation register next month. Joining it is free. Ignoring it costs £1,400 per property.From October 2026, anyone who takes bookings for overnight stays in Wales must register with the Welsh Revenue Authority. gov.wales is blunt about the reach: "You must register by 31 March 2027, even if your local council does not introduce Visitor Levy."That is 195 days from today.The penalty ladder is in section 7 of the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Act

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00:02:36

Ten Days

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2026/09/16

n Mallorca the criminal risk has stopped being about letting without a licence. It is now about what you do in the 10 days after the notice arrives.On Tuesday the Consell de Mallorca published its enforcement figures for January to July 2026.146 sanction files opened, against 104 in the whole of 2025. A rise of 40%.1,546 inspections.4.37 million euros of proposed penalties across those 146 files. 2.1 million actually imposed on the 61 resolved so far, 36 of them classed as very serious.Worth

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00:02:26

You Already Pay To Rank

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2026/09/15

Paying to rank is not new. It is arriving at the one big channel that never sold it.On 1 September, Expedia Group launched Vrbo Sponsored Listings globally, one of 12 products announced that day.Expedia's own words: a "pay-per-booked-night advertising solution" that "offers no upfront risk and helps partners secure premium placement at the top of relevant Vrbo search results".It is an auction. Expedia's partner guide sets the minimum bid at $5 per booked night, and you pay only "when a guest who

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00:50:59

Ice Hockey To Y Combinator - Sit down with Jan from...

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2026/09/14

Jan Sahagun turned down the chance to start Trellis.He was in a job he believed in, he needed the stability, and he said no. So his co-founder applied to Y Combinator anyway and put Jan's name on the application. Jan found out afterwards. He went.That is roughly how his whole career has gone.He played hockey at a high level, then collected three master's degrees because he had no idea what he wanted to do. An investment banking internship bored him so completely that he flew to Australia to think,

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00:02:37

Uncapped

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2026/09/14

England's tourist tax will not be capped. Neither will the number of nights it applies to.The government published its response to the visitor levy consultation on Wednesday 10 September. Most coverage has led on the missing rate cap. For anyone running longer stays, the night cap matters more.No cap on the rate."The government does not intend to set a cap on the visitor levy rate, however, this is a finely balanced issue and government will continue to consider the case for doing so."So it is

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00:02:49

Enforce Or Don't Restrict

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2026/09/11

Three things happened in European short-term rentals this week, and one of them has been badly under reported.The Affordable Housing Act, published Wednesday, gives compliant operators something to argue with.Article 10(1)(e). Where an authority restricts short-term rentals to safeguard housing affordability, the measure only stands where that authority "applies and enforces Regulation (EU) 2024/1028 in the relevant geographical area", including "orders requiring the removal or disabling of listings

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00:02:59

No Grandfathering

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2026/09/10

Brussels published the Affordable Housing Act yesterday. The most important line in it is not about caps.Article 3(1): short-term rental restrictions taken on housing affordability grounds "shall not be subject to Directive 2006/123/EC, including the notification obligation laid down in Article 15(7)".That notification duty is what puts a proposed restriction in front of the Commission before it takes effect. On affordability grounds, it is gone.What replaces it is a real test. A city has to show a

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00:02:47

Greece Will Pay You To Quit

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2026/09/09

Greece is paying owners to leave the short-term rental market. As the law stands today, that offer expires on 31 December.Most of this week's coverage led with the extension. The extension is not law. The deadline is.What was announced on Monday, at the detailed briefing on the Thessaloniki fair package:New registrations in the short-stay registry stay blocked in central Athens and central Thessaloniki, running into 2027.For Athens that is a third consecutive year. The freeze has applied since 1

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