Jean-Luc Boujon // Photo credit: Romain Longieras / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP 06:21, November 08, 2024, modified to 08:51, November 8, 2024
It may be the end of a blessed era for those who rent their apartment on AirBnB. This Thursday, Parliament adopted a bill aimed at regulating the rental market for furnished tourist accommodation. The objective is to put more “long-term” housing back on the market, because, on the contrary, the number of “short-term” housing, with the explosion of AirBnB, has quadrupled in eight years. , going from 300,000 to 1.2 million. A bill, which does not please many owners, who are not wealthy and for whom, AirBnB is simply a way of putting butter in their spinach.
“Me, I lose about a month’s salary”
Karine has been renting her 52m2 apartment in the Croix-Rousse district on AirBnB for seven years. Accommodation which is also her main residence, and which she charges 70 euros per night. A vital contribution of money for this employee, paid 2,000 euros per month: “This has always been important to me, because I am on the French median salary. So my purchasing power is not very high. There, currently , the rental I do on AirBnB brings me around 25% of my salary, or around 500 euros per month, which is huge, I can’t do without it,” she confides.
What upsets her the most in the new law is the limitation on the number of nights per year: “There, we were at 120. If we go to 90, then, clearly, I lose about one month’s salary. Same regret for Christelle who rents a small F3 in the southern suburbs of Paris on the platform. A rental essential to your budget: “I’m in public housing with three children, so I bought what I could. Telling myself, whatever comes, it will allow me to feed my children every day. For for me, it’s vital, it allows me to feed them, it’s not a business to earn 15,000 euros per month, I don’t have 15 AirBnBs!”, she is alarmed.
And despite the change in the rule, Christelle, faced with the difficulties of getting rid of an unscrupulous occupant, will not return to long-term rental, which is the stated objective of the new law.
