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In 2025 Vienna approved 132 conversions. From January it is closing that door.

First, a correction to 14 July. I said Vienna was enforcing its 90-day cap in residential zones. The cap is not zoned. § 119 Abs 2a Bauordnung für Wien applies to every flat in the city. What is zoned is the way out: the § 129 Abs 1a exemption is only available "wenn ... sich die Wohnung nicht in einer Wohnzone ... befindet". Inside a Wohnzone there is no exemption route at all.

Which is why the conversion route mattered, and why this is not really a register story.

The City's own release sets it out: "Nach der…

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