The city of Salzburg came across many illegal offers for tourists when I searched through the online platforms. However, the country can look forward to the inserted penalties.
Since September 2020, landlords of holiday apartments on platforms such as Airbnb have had to register with the municipalities of Salzburg. Since 2022, the city of Salzburg has consistently tested the landlords and advertisements of the population. Apparently with success, as the balance for the first three years of the assessment shows.
227 advertisements of the population and 44 reports on an online platform came to 692 reported apartments. The responsible magistrate employees reported 195. In 109 cases the apartment was taken by the tourist platform, so it is fundamentally available for the housing market.
The country is happy with 300,000 euros in penalty money
This made way for almost 300,000 euros in punishments. The country can be happy with this, because the underlying Spatial Planning Act is a state law. Almost 169,000 euros from IT cost it alone in 2024. “The controllers have the number of new registrations.
The controls are complex. In the suspicion of an illegal rent, the officials must find tourists in the building. Browsing an offer on the internet is not enough. “We need the employee for whom the guest is in Salzburg.
How many of the 109 apartments are actually available for conventional life is unknown. Some must now be empty. “If only a part is rented, much has been won,” says Dankl. “Building 80 or 100 apartments costs many million euros.
Source: Krone
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