Resources for hospitality teams
Explore practical Compliance and Rules guides for vacation rental hosts and property managers.
Airbnb collapsed its split service fee into a single 15.5% paid by the host, effective for EEA and Swiss hosts on 13 October 2026. The fee is charged on the whole booking subtotal, cleaning included. This is the repricing checklist, the arithmetic that actually preserves your payout, and the three things not to change.
On 9 September 2026 the European Commission proposed an Affordable Housing Act that writes short-term rentals into EU housing law for the first time. It is still a proposal. This article sets out what it creates, the three tests a city must pass before it may restrict letting, why registration becomes the front door, and what is worth preparing while nothing has changed yet.
Most bad bookings are cheap to attempt rather than clever. This guide lists the host-side signals that survive a second reading, sizes what one bad reservation actually costs, and sets out how to choose between accepting, verifying and declining without deciding at 11 pm.
A short-term rental safety inspection tests a shorter list than hosts expect, and most failures are paperwork rather than hardware. This guide sets out the core that recurs across ordinances, why egress and detection decide most refusals, which documents have to carry a current date, and a route through a unit in under an hour.
A compliance calendar turns scattered obligations into five dated rows per unit, kept where you already look and checked in five minutes a month. This guide covers why the date is what breaks, the five date types, and the monthly pass.
Short-term rental enforcement has shifted from fining hosts after a complaint to removing listings at the platform. This guide compares the two models, sets out what a registration application asks for, explains why a long unlicensed history is not a defence, and gives the order to work through when a listing disappears.
A seasonal safety walkthrough already produces most of what a renewal, an inspection or an authority query asks for. This guide sets out what an evidence file is assembled from, the items that need a dated photograph, how one pass serves three purposes, and what to do the day something fails.
Guest taxes are not yours to keep and not always yours to file. This guide separates the two families of guest tax, sets out the three collection models and who carries the liability, and shows how to reconcile what was collected against what was sent on.
Platforms file structured reports on host income, and the file is built long before any letter arrives. This walkthrough sets out who is reportable, which fields travel to the tax authority, why quarterly detail matters, and how to prepare for a cross-check.
A platform fee is quoted as a percentage, but tax usually sits on top of the fee rather than inside it. This guide shows where VAT attaches in a booking, why your effective rate runs above the headline number, and how to rebuild your margin check.