The city of Paris longtime scrap against tourist furnished furniture, which according to it accentuates the shortage of housing in the capital.
Le Monde with AFP
This is a “first” praised by the City of Paris: a real estate agency was sentenced for having searched seasonal very regularly, without authorization, an apartment on the Airbnb and Booking platforms. In a judgment dated June 29 and accessed Friday by the France-Presse agency, the Paris judicial court sentenced the owner of an apartment of 20 e arrondissement of the capital and the managerial agency Its property has a fine of 8,000 euros each. The concierge mandated by the agency to manage the stewardship was also sentenced to 2,500 euros fine.
They are accused of having put this apartment on tourist rental sites, between October 2018 and August 2020, for a period greater than that authorized for individuals (one hundred and twenty days per year for a main residence). In 2020, at the exit of the first confinement, neighbors of the apartment had protested against the nuisance generated by noisy tenants, hooking “Stop Airbnb” banners.
“Catched up by the patrol”
According to the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of housing, Ian Brossat (French Communist Party), this is the first time that the town hall has obtained the condemnation of an agency and a concierge in a rental case illegal tourism. “It is happy that not only are the owners condemned, but also this parallel economy which has developed on the fringes of the law and which allows this cannibalization of our housing area, reacted the elected communist. It is a means To tell them that they will end up being caught up in the patrol. “
For his part, the lawyer for the real estate agency, Xavier resident, “considers that it is a non -event [because] the city of Paris has already had numerous occasions condemned” concierge ” – but No classic real estate agencies, according to the town hall. “We considered that there was no matter for appeal, because we have one of the lowest fines possible,” added M e remaining.
The city of Paris longtime scrap against tourist furnishings, which it accuses of accentuating the shortage of housing in the capital. According to the latest figures available, in May 2022, out of 500 procedures initiated by the City of Paris, 422 have already been tried, including two thirds in favor of the town hall, which has recovered more than 4.5 million euros in fines with rental companies and 9.58 million euros with platforms.