Will this be a brake on AirBnB-type tourist rentals? By this Thursday, November 7, parliament should adopt a new law which should limit the multiplication of these housing units. Income will be taxed more, the maximum rental period will drop from 120 to 90 days per year, and in certain cities we will even be able to impose maximum quotas for Airbnb accommodation. In Côte-d'Or, Dijon and Beaune are faced with the proliferation of these tourist accommodations.
According to Beaune town hall, there are 880 in the city center of this city of wines. A considerable figure for a town of 20,000 inhabitants where it is difficult to find an apartment to rent for people who come to work there. In the streets there are no signs on the doors, but Christine who runs the Perrin factory, a pretty hat and glove shop in the city center, knows a few. “I know there is one above my store, I can hear people coming and going” she confides. “There are also others on rue Carnot according to what my customers tell me.” Should this type of housing be restricted? Our trader remains reserved: “We are a wine city, the whole world comes to Beaune and we are happy to welcome tourists and foreigners. The more people we have, the more turnover we make. Compared to hotel prices, this type of rental is perhaps more attractive. Everyone sees midday at their door. For my part, I work in Beaune, but I live in Chalon-Sur-Saône.
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Olivier Estran
“Opening an Airbnb in Beaune is already complicated, if not impossible”
Finding an apartment to rent in Beaune is very complicated if you come to work or study here. This is what the real estate agencies we contact tell us. “Yet the city of Beaune has already put in place measures to limit the spread of Airbnb-type tourist accommodation” warns Stéphanie who runs a real estate agency FNAIM. “Today opening an Airbnb in Beaune is very complicated, if not impossible. We must provide proof of compensation, and pass a commercial property which has the same surface area into permanent housing to compensate for furnished tourist accommodation, so we do not We no longer have any owners who manage to bring this type of case to fruition.”
Olivier Estran
Up to 10,000 euros fine for fraudulent owners
Finally for Beaune, the novelty will be to be able limit the rental period from 120 to 90 days per year. “Beaune has already managed to stop the bleeding” welcomes Alain Suguenot, mayor of the town and president of the agglomeration. “But these new measures will be useful for surrounding municipalities faced with the same phenomenon, such as Meursault for example.”
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Finally, important measure. In the event of fraud or failure to declare Airbnb accommodation, the city may directly issue an administrative fine of 10,000 euros to the owner. “It will be an important and dissuasive tool” underlines Alain Suguenot, “because previously disputes went to court and were resolved in court, which took several months. There we will have an immediate sanction.”
Olivier Estran
