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Berlin's government legislates against Airbnb

• the_mitsuhiko 10y ago
  > The law was passed in 2014 but gave a two-year transition period that ended on Saturday, when owners became limited to renting only rooms via such sites, not entire flats or houses. Offenders can face fines of up to €100,000. > Tim Boening, 41, who rents out a loft in the trendy Kreuzberg district, said he was not shocked by the law, given practices he had seen. He cited “the nice couple with two small apartments who move in together to a bigger place and keep the two apartments to rent them out on Airbnb … I don’t think that’s good – it should be stopped.” Sounds like from now on the only thing you can rent via AirBnB in Berlin are spare rooms.
  • bogomipz 10y ago
    But will quantifying "spare room" be a loophole? For instance is a studio a spare room? Also if you search AirBnB right now for "whole apartment or house" for Berlin there is 300+ properties.