Day limit for short-term rentals

The government's decision to expand interventions in the short-term rental market, especially in Athens, seems definitive, following the new statements Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis made on Wednesday.

"We are studying the Airbnb market mainly in Athens, to see if we can logically limit short-term rentals, to free up more properties for long-term rentals." At the same time, he added that "we will also see how much time we should allow in total during the year that a property can be rented through Airbnb-type platforms. We are studying it because it is a complex issue," he pointed out.

One of the options that exist concerns the activation of the existing institutional framework, providing that by joint decision of the ministries of National Economy and Finance, Development and Tourism, for reasons related to housing protection, to define geographic areas where...