Caught up by the patrol. The number of fines imposed on Parisian owners who do not comply with local regulations on Airbnb rentals has been falling since 2021, but their amount is heavier, a sign for the town hall that its system “works” and that “the judge is more and more severe “.
Since 2021, a year marked by a major victory for the town hall, when the Court of Cassation had deemed its regulations to be in line with European law, the City of Paris has obtained around 6.5 million euros in fines from the judicial court, indicates she, confirming information from France Info.
The City’s “regulatory arsenal” “is working, there are fewer violations”, welcomes the latter, stressing however that “the high figures for litigation in 2021 and 2022 were due to the resumption of the 400 files suspended from decide” pending a decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
“The regulatory arsenal works”
But this recipe is melting, standing at 535,000 euros over the first seven months of 2023, for 65 cases judged, against 3.5 million in 2021 and 2.5 million in 2022, the year when 370 cases had been processed. .
At the same time, the average amount of fines has risen: from 15,000 euros in 2022 at first instance (22,000 on appeal), it now stands at 20,000 euros (31,000 on appeal) this year.
A fine of 50,000 euros
“The courts are more severe,” said Ian Brossat, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of housing for whom “judges now assume that those who cheat do so knowingly”.
A “multi-rental” owner from the 16th arrondissement of Paris even received the maximum fine of 50,000 euros, an unprecedented sanction, underlines Ian Brossat.
The owners condemned are for “lack of registration number or rental of a second home without compensation”, recalls the elected communist.
A limit of 120 days per year
In Paris, where accommodation is a challenge, only main residences can be freely rented as furnished tourist accommodation, provided that they are declared to the town hall and within a limit of 120 days per year.
The tourist furnished rental of a second home must be subject to a very restrictive change of use, with an obligation to compensate by renting conventional accommodation of an equivalent area, or even double or triple according to areas.