Meanwhile his neighbors Spanish chose the hard path, removing tens of thousands of ads short lease non-compliance by platforms, in Italy proposal tax the hosts have come up with criticism from all fronts, becoming one of the most difficult issues to resolve in the new season budget law. Amendments are expected by Friday Forza Italia so be it Alloy they will ask to eliminate the increase from 21% to 26%. dry coupon for those who rent out property even only through platforms such as Airbnb And Booking.com.
The stated aim of this act is to rebalance a system that, in recent years, has made it more convenient to rent tourist rather than to the population. “There is no intention to punish the owners, but we need to understand whether we need to reward house rents or rents to foreign tourists”, as summarized by the Minister of Economy. Giancarlo Giorgetti. For companies that have been monitoring and trying to contain the impact of rising short-term rentals in Italian cities for years, the tax adjustment is minimal. But that is of course not enough.
“It’s not enough to just slow down Airbnb, just look at the data on improving profitability. But this remains a pragmatic and necessary first step.” rationalize this phenomenon,” he commented Francesco Chiodelli, associate professorUniversity of Turinamong the scientific managers of research conducted by FULL (Future Urban Legacy Lab) del Turin Polytechnic to capture the transformation of the short-term rental market in Italy between 2017 and 2024. The data – provided by AirDna – makes it clear: the offer of housing units on the platform is grew by 52% at the national level, and now there are hosts in Italy 350,000 and each manages an average of 2.1 apartments. That’s also what went up average daily ratewhich grew by 50%, reaching an average of 167 euros per night.
There profitability per unit is improved by 124%, bringing average annual return for each accommodation approx 11,700 euros. And its turnover increased from around 2.5 billion in 2017 to 8.8 billion in 2024. About professionalization in this sector, the so-called “big hosts”, managers who own more than ten propertiesexperienced a 77% increase in incidents, each managing an average of 42 units. This is often the agency the owner rents their home to.
The numbers that don’t count in a “very ideological” debate, Chiodelli said, focus on “chastity house, but only for the owner.” While “the residents come marginalizedignored by the political sector perhaps because of the short-sightedness of ignoring changes in access to housing. That middle class now it consists mostly of renters. Taxation can help restore public resources, to invest in other housing related sectors, such as innocent delinquent funds“. For Chiodelli, the aim is not to demoralize, but to regulate the sector, taking into account territorial differences: “For a geographically diversified phenomenon, national action alone is not enough, it would even risk sacrificing the positive impact that AirBnb can have for some regions and some families. We also need to act at the local level.”
“This proposal would be a good start to overcome this phenomenon, but this alone is not enough,” he stressed Maria Luisa Stabile, spokesperson for GRAB (Roman Group for Short Term Rental Regulation). “In cities where demand for short-term rentals is high, such as in downtown Rome, Venice and other tourist cities, this will not be a problem. disincentive adequate. In Rome alone, there is currently an 8 to 1 ratio of short-term versus long-term rental offers.”
Stabile doesn’t appreciate that Court of Auditors warned that raising tax rates could encourage disorder, encouraging undeclared short-term rentals: “The constitutional body should not entertain the idea that Italian habits will mechanically evade fair taxes. In the last seven years, the sector has increased its turnover from around 2 to 9 billion. We can no longer treat it as it was at the beginning of the sharing economy, when the most important thing was the issue of income integration. Not to regulate is to accept that the country continues to live based on income, wealth basedregressive economy”.
The Romans for the Regulation of Short-Term Rentals wants a national law that would allow cities to have the say sustainability threshold short term rental. “We are signatories to the bill written by High Voltage Housing civil movementbut it seems like the government doesn’t want to adopt it,” said Stabile. “Just imagine the opposition the Tourism Consolidation Law faced in Tuscany. If the government doesn’t win interestingwould be the only region with the power to regulate the phenomenon, along with the cities of Venice and Rome.”
