Paris just fined one Airbnb operator €585,000. For a single building.
On April 15th, a Paris court handed down the largest illegal short-term rental penalty in the city's history.
A property company had bought a building in central Paris previously social housing and converted all 11 flats into Airbnbs.
No permission. No change-of-use authorisation.
The fine: €585,000.
That's nearly half of what Paris collected in illegal rental penalties across the entire year of 2024.
And it's not an isolated case.
↳ Paris issued nearly €1M in illegal STR fines in Q1 2026 alone ↳ Three corporate landlord judgments in ten weeks ↳ A new 150-person enforcement brigade on the…
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