Paris just issued nearly €1M in illegal Airbnb fines.

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Paris just issued nearly €1M in illegal Airbnb fines.In three months.For context:2024 total: €1.3M 2025 total: €2.4M Q1 2026 alone: ~€1MAnd that's before a €585,000 judgment lands in Q2 against one SCI that converted a former social housing building in the 9th arrondissement into 11 Airbnbs.Third corporate landlord fine in ten weeks.Why now?→ New mayor Emmanuel Grégoire ran on tightening STR rules → A 150-person enforcement brigade was approved 3 days before the €585k ruling → Loi Le Meur doubled the per-unit fine to €100,000 → On 20 May, EU Regulation 2024/1028 turns on the data tapsHere's what operators outside Paris should know:Loi Le Meur is national. Lyon, Bordeaux, Marseille and Nice have the same tools. Paris is just demonstrating how aggressively they can be used.And from 20 May, every platform reports monthly activity data on every listing.Cap breaches surface automatically. Unregistered listings surface automatically. Listings tied to addresses without change-of-use authorisation surface automatically.The targeting work historically the slowest part of enforcement is now done for the brigade before they walk in the door.Regulation was always coming. What's new is the data infrastructure to make it stick.Full breakdown on today's episode of STR Unpacked 👇

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