New framework for short-term rentals: Stricter rules, quality criteria and controls by ADSE

The short-term leases marketplace successful Greece is entering a caller epoch arsenic the instrumentality 5170/2025, which establishes strict presumption and conditions for properties made disposable successful this way, came into unit connected Wednesday 1 October.

The Minister of Tourism Olga Kefalogianni precocious introducing the caller organization framework, stressed that it is clear, mounting rules truthful that contention works reasonably for each and ensuring betterment successful the prime of services provided. It establishes wide rules connected prime criteria and legality, taking into relationship the maturation of this enactment which is portion of the tourism offer. This is wherefore the authorities actively recognises the request to guarantee an situation of steadfast contention successful the hospitality sector. It seeks to alleviate the unit exerted by the accrued question flows, successful definite destinations, but besides to lend to the steadfast economical and societal improvement of the destinations by promoting a balanced connection of hospitality and accommodation for residents, workers, etc.

The curate expressed her assurance that the caller regulations lend to the implementation of the objectives for qualitative and sustainable maturation of Greek tourism, which continues to grounds historically precocious performance, arsenic the information truthful acold for 2025 bespeak that it volition beryllium different affirmative year.“Already successful the archetypal 7 months of the year, question receipts accrued by 12.5%, compared to the aforesaid play successful 2024. While inbound travel, astatine the territory level, besides saw an summation compared to past year’s record-breaking year. But the important happening is that the dynamic enlargement of tourism enactment successful the off-peak months, the lateral and wintertime months, is maintained, which is simply a cardinal nonsubjective of our strategy” said Mrs Kefalogianni.

Strict controls and sanctions

The caller organization model provides for compliance checks by the Ministry of Tourism and the ADSE, arsenic good arsenic sanctions and fines akin to those applicable to tourer accommodation. Already the Ministry of Tourism done ADRE has sent an physics notification to each registered spot managers who person a Property Registration Number (PRN) and a circular has been issued explaining the requirements, which volition likewise beryllium sent by automated connection from ADRE.

In this context, arsenic of October 1, those accommodations that bash not represent existent property for superior usage nether the municipality readying regularisation volition beryllium deleted from the physics records of the AADE and successful peculiar the Register of Short-Term Accommodation Properties. Therefore, they suffer their Property Registration Number (PRN) and the AADE volition pass the online rental platforms with which it has signed memoranda of knowing and accusation exchange, specified arsenic Airbnb. Due to the strict model that has been activated, it is estimated that 5%-10% of accommodation is instantly enactment retired of business.

In addition, by the extremity of the twelvemonth it is expected to beryllium decided successful which – isolated from the archetypal 3 apartments of Athens – areas of the state the merchantability of caller properties with short-term rentals volition beryllium banned, but besides which different incentives and disincentives volition beryllium introduced successful bid to instrumentality properties to the marketplace of semipermanent rentals.

According to the cardinal points of the caller legislative framework, properties leased connected a short-term ground are present required to conscionable minimum standards among which: Be premises of superior usage nether the New Building Code and person earthy lighting, ventilation and aerial conditioning; person a civilian liability security argumentation covering immoderate harm oregon accidents, arsenic good arsenic an electrician’s declaration and a certificate of mycosis, person a sworn connection from an electrician installer, occurrence extinguishers and fume detectors, a cut-off relay oregon anti-electrical relay and flight signage, and person a myocide and disinfection certificate, a first-aid kit and a first-aid kit and a usher with exigency telephone numbers.

Historical grounds for short-term rentals

At the aforesaid time, the short-term rental marketplace successful Greece continues its explosive growth, mounting records successful the fig of accommodation and disposable beds. According to information from INSETE, the fig of disposable Airbnb-type short-term rentals continues to emergence successful the play January – August 2025, mounting a grounds successful May with 236,000 accommodation units, which was breached again successful June with 242,000 units and successful July with 246,000 units, the highest worth recorded since January 2019 to date. The fig of accommodation establishments successful August reached 247,000, signaling a caller all-time precocious and consolidating the beardown upward inclination of the summertime season.

In presumption of disposable short-term rental beds, the 3rd 4th started with July mounting a caller grounds with 1,078,236 beds, up +57,000 compared to July 2024. The upward inclination continued successful August, with the fig of disposable beds reaching 1,081,481. This is simply a caller all-time high, which highlights the dependable strengthening of short-term rental momentum astatine the highest of the summertime season.

The accrued proviso of short-term rental accommodation appears to beryllium commensurate with the summation successful visitors, arsenic occupancy levels remained high, pursuing a dependable upward trend. In June, 40% occupancy was recorded, the aforesaid complaint arsenic successful 2024, successful July the complaint roseate to 51%, remaining astatine the aforesaid level arsenic past year, portion successful August the complaint was 58%, compared to 59% successful August 2024. Despite this flimsy drop, occupancy levels stay high, confirming the dependable request during the summertime season.

The mean magnitude of enactment successful short-term rental accommodation successful Q1 2025 showed a wide diminution compared to the aforesaid play successful 2024, portion successful Q2 it recorded a stabilisation successful April and a mild betterment successful the pursuing months, partially reversing the diminution successful Q1.

The 3rd 4th began with stableness successful July, erstwhile the mean magnitude of enactment was 4.1 nights, the aforesaid arsenic successful July 2024. August saw a caller increase, with the mean magnitude of enactment reaching 4.2 nights, up +2.4% from 4.1 nights successful August 2024.

The INSETE information shows that visitors to short-term rental accommodation were chiefly foreigners, covering much than 90%. Indicatively, successful May and June overseas travellers accounted for 92% of full demand, successful June 91%, portion successful August the fig was 89%. In fact, May’s show is the 2nd highest worth recorded for the 2019-2025 period, aft 93% successful September successful some 2023 and 2024. Historically, a akin complaint was recorded lone erstwhile before, successful June 2022.

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