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Short-term furnished rental: the importance of local French regulation.

Post author By Aurélien Fortunato
Post date February 20, 2018
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In the area of short-term furnished rental, in particular passing by Air BNB, France has adopted a complete regulation. The rules focus on owners who offer short-term rental of dwellings they do not occupy, i.e. secondary residences. It is then necessary, before any announcement online, to make an administrative pre-rental declaration, and to address it […]

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France: First sanction of a short-term accommodation platform in application of the Digital Republic Law… and first extensions.

Judgment: Tribunal d’instance, 6ème arrondissement de Paris, 06 feb. 2018, n°RG11-17-000190. Context: The Digital Republic law (Law n°2016-1321, 6 October 2016) has created rules concerning platforms. Some of these rules are general, such as the obligation to provide loyal information to users (Consumption Code, art. L. 111-7), and others are more specific, such as the […]

Tags Digital Republic law, housing proposed by a tenant on a platform; action of the owner against the platform; obligation of the platform to verifying regarding the subletting authorisation; temporal scope of the law, obligation of short-term tourist rental platforms, Online platforms, proof by the platform of the good performance of its obligation of information.