Holidaymakers looking for lodging in New York City will discover far fewer choices than regular after a clampdown on Airbnb guidelines.

New rules that got here into place on Tuesday successfully ended a free-for-all which was permitting all landlords and residents to lease out their properties to vacationers by the week or evening.

Airbnb says it has already begun limiting some new reservations.

Under the brand new guidelines, solely registered hosts might be allowed to simply accept company for fewer than 30 days by way of platforms equivalent to Airbnb and VRBO.

They should stay within the residence whereas renting it out and not more than two company are allowed at a time – basically banning households and placing an finish to group bookings for events, or stag and hen weekends.

New York City officers say they’ve obtained 3,800 purposes from individuals desirous to register as hosts however slightly below 300 have been permitted up to now.

The rules are a win for housing advocates who argued residences within the metropolis have been changing into de facto accommodations.

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Airbnb fought the brand new guidelines, arguing the strict situations quantity to a ban and can negatively impression travellers on the lookout for reasonably priced lodging.

But since 21 August 2023, Airbnb – which had 38,500 ‘non-hotel’ listings in New York in January – has been stopping reservations for hosts who couldn’t present both a metropolis registration quantity or proof they’d utilized.

Authorities in New York are removed from the primary to limit how vacation rental platforms function of their metropolis.

Airbnb hosts in San Francisco can solely lease their whole property out for a most of 90 days a yr, whereas in Amsterdam the restrict is 30 nights, except you will have a selected licence.

Berlin banned short-term leases completely in 2014 however the legislation was overturned in 2018. However, restrictions on how lengthy individuals can lease their properties out for within the German capital stay in place.