All of Europe has rules. Poland doesn't

The cap on a main residence is 120 days a year, and a municipality may lower it to 90. The law strengthens municipalities' powers to restrict tourist letting, and lets an existing owners' association ban it by a two-thirds majority.

Amsterdam: 30 nights a year, and from April 2026 only 15 nights in eight designated districts. A permit, a registration number, notification of every stay and a four-guest limit are all required.

The hospitality act has applied since January 2026: in multi-unit buildings it requires the consent of more than 75% of co-owners plus every owner of an adjoining unit, valid for three years. From 2027, high-pressure municipalities have a default 60-day cap that the municipality may vary.

Barcelona will not renew the 10,101 tourist flat licences that expire in November 2028. Since 3 April 2025, a new tourist flat in a multi-unit building needs the owners' association's consent by a three-fifths majority.

The act on the management and maintenance of buildings has applied since January 2025. Starting short-term letting in a multi-unit building requires the written consent of two-thirds of the co-owners and of every immediate neighbour.

The national cap on letting an entire main residence is 30 days a year without a reporting platform, and 70 days a year through one. A municipality may raise the second cap to at most 100 days.

In Berlin, the Zweckentfremdungsverbot forbids converting a home to holiday letting without a permit. For a second home a permit is generally available for at most 90 days a year, and every listing must carry a registration number.

Terézváros, Budapest's 6th district, has banned short-term letting: since 1 January 2026 the number of days a property may be used for it is zero. The city of Budapest proposed a two-year moratorium to the government, but that is not a binding city-wide ban.

Home-sharing without a commercial licence is limited to 90 days a year, a maximum of two properties, and 2 million ISK of gross income.

The short-term letting register opens on 1 December 2026, and registration becomes mandatory by 31 December 2026. National planning policy creates a presumption against granting new permissions in towns of more than 20,000 people.

Eierseksjonsloven §24: a 90-day annual cap on letting a whole unit in a condominium. The association's own rules may, by a two-thirds majority, set a different cap between 60 and 120 days.

The national classification system covers flats and rooms let to tourists. A classification certificate is a condition of operating, so this is more than registration alone.

The holder of a bostadsrätt needs the association board's consent to sublet the flat; a refusal can be appealed to the rent tribunal.

London: 90 nights a year for a whole home. Scotland: mandatory short-term let licences since 2023, plus control areas - all of Edinburgh is covered.

Vienna, since July 2024: 90 days a year outside hotel zones, a ban on commercial short-term rentals in residential zones, and written consent from the owners' association.

Brussels requires tourist accommodation to meet regional conditions, including compliance with planning rules. Flanders and Wallonia run systems of their own.

Through 2025 and 2026, no new properties may be entered in the short-term rental register in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd districts of Athens.

A national identification code, the CIN. Florence: new short-term listings are banned in the UNESCO historic centre. Beyond that, the tools are mostly record-keeping.

Decree-Law 76/2024 leaves municipalities free to designate containment or sustainable-growth zones, suspend new registrations and impose local restrictions.

The rules are cantonal. Geneva: letting a whole unit for more than 90 days a year is a change of use and needs a permit. Zurich: the zoning reform aimed at commercial Airbnb listings has been upheld, but has yet to come into force.

The national tourism act requires guest rooms and guest flats to be registered with the municipality and entered in the national tourism register.

Self-catering accommodation must obtain an entry in the register, a special designation and a registration number before it can operate.

Short-term letting falls under the Malta Tourism Authority's licensing system; operating without the required authorisation is prohibited.

Act no. 133/2026 creates a short-term rental register with a number for every property. It takes effect on 1 January 2027; until then the system does not operate.

There is no separate short-term rental act in force, and no central register. Draft bill UC135 has been adopted by the government but is not yet law. The Supreme Court's judgment of 12 January 2021 (IV CSKP 20/21) limits the ability of an owners' association to ban short-term letting by resolution.

No data confirming an enacted short-term rental register. eTurista remains a bill going through parliament.

No data confirming an enacted short-term rental register. Estonia's tourism act no longer requires accommodation businesses to notify.

No data confirming an enacted short-term rental register. The requirements in force cover accommodation businesses generally, and public health.

No data confirming an enacted short-term rental register. The government's bill implementing the EU regulation does not create the Article 4 register.

No data confirming an enacted short-term rental register. The tourism act regulates accommodation services in general.

No data confirming an enacted short-term rental register. The act in force covers general notification of tourist accommodation establishments.