Furnished tourist accommodation: an agreement reached between senators and deputies to better regulate the market

This is the last step before final adoption in Parliament. The deputies and senators, meeting on Monday in a joint committee, reached a common version of a bill aimed at better regulating the market for furnished tourist accommodation such as Airbnb, according to the two rapporteurs.

“It’s a victory on a subject that we have been discussing for a long time,” Iñaki Echaniz (PS) greeted the press on Monday evening, alongside his colleague Annaïg Le Meur (Renaissance). The Senate should adopt the text on November 5 and the Assembly on the 7th. This CMP, made up of seven senators and seven deputies, worked to reconcile the Senate’s copy and that of the Assembly. It was made up on Monday of seven parliamentarians from the government majority and seven from the opposition.

“It’s already a great step forward”

On one of the main hard points, taxation, currently more favorable to short-term tourist rentals than to bare rentals. [sans aucun meuble] long-term, the deputies achieved half-success. The reduction enjoyed by owners of classified tourist accommodation and guest rooms should fall from 71% to 50%, with a ceiling lowered to 77,700 euros. For unclassified furnished tourist accommodation, the reduction should drop from 50% to 30% – as for unfurnished rentals -, with a ceiling of 15,000 euros.

The senators agreed to allow municipalities to limit, if they wish, to 90 days per year the maximum period during which a main residence can be rented to passing tourists.

Another point of disagreement between the Senate and the Assembly: the question of the obligation of the energy performance diagnosis. New furnished tourist accommodation will be subject to the ordinary calendar, with the “stock” obtaining a period of ten years, instead of five, to achieve energy label D, the Senate version. Finally, the text of the CMP ratifies other more consensual developments between deputies and senators, aimed at granting greater regulatory power to mayors, as well as to co-ownerships.