The minister wants to regulate the rental market. Housing-free zones for tourists?
If more apartments are available for short-term rentals, the availability of apartments for long-term rentals decreases. This problem mainly concerns larger cities: Krakow, Poznań, Gdańsk and Warsaw – Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz told the RMF FM reporter. She would like local governments to be able to define “short-term rental-free zones.”
Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, Minister of Funds and Regional Policy, pointed out on the X website that more and more apartments put into use are intended for short-term rental, among others. on the Airbnb platform. – In Warsaw alone, there are 20 new short-term rental offers per 100 new apartments – emphasized the minister (although she did not provide the source of these data).
Pełczyńska-Nałęcz wants zones free from short-term rentals
“Apartments that could be used for normal living are being taken out of the market for hotel-like services. What is the effect? Long-term rental prices are rising,” she wrote.
Pełczyńska-Nałęcz proposes introducing a “register of premises that are used on Airbnb in order to get them out of the gray zone.” There is also a tax option to consider, so that high taxes discourage short-term rentals. – It cannot be that hundreds of thousands of apartments in Poland are turned into hotels. Apartments are not about making quick profits. They are a place to live, he emphasizes.
An RMF FM journalist asked the minister how she imagined limiting short-term rentals. It turns out that Pełczyńska-Nałęcz would like to introduce “short-term rental free zones”. The decision on where and under what conditions rental apartments could operate would be made by local governments, but also by cooperatives and housing communities.
– A good solution that we are already considering is to transfer the rights to local governments, cooperatives and housing communities so that they can decide: to what extent, in what districts, in what season to make premises available for short-term rental. Here, local communities need to be given a voice, but first it all needs to be sorted out by introducing a register, said the minister in an interview with RMF FM.
The idea of higher interest rates on rental premises was presented before the holidays by the Minister of Finance, Andrzej Domański. This has two goals: increasing budget revenues and encouraging Poles to invest less money on the housing market and more on the capital market.
