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STR Unpacked — 95 episodes

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Title
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Tax, Planning, Enforcement

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The €6,000 Buffer

3

Still Booking

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Voluntary to Vital: Where UK Short-Term Let Licensing Goes Next

5

Why SCALE Gave AI Its Own Day

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Ten Blue Links Are Dead: What AI Really Means for How Guests Find You with Milena Nikolić Heywa Labs

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+14%

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The One to Be In the Room For

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The Events Capital With No Beds

10

Porto Just Killed 1,413 Listings With a Missing PDF

11

Up 13.6 percent!

12

Built From the Front Lines: The STR Software Forged in Switzerland and Bali

13

They Sold Us Plumbing. The Weapon Comes Next.

14

Don't Brace. Organise.

15

Spain Built It First. Its Own Court Just Killed It.

16

Airbnb Took Your Edge. The Balkans Gave It Back.

17

The Summer Release Isn't For You

18

One Law, 27 Systems

19

Who's the host? The €60,000 question.

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Why DIY AI Is Failing Property Managers with Georgina Kennerknecht Biosca

21

Eurostat just published a stat that nobody's talking about.

22

The UK just made it official.

23

Every time a European city cracks down on short-term rentals, hotel revenues go up.

24

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

25

A $250 million deal just closed in short-term rentals.

26

A bailiff walked into Booking.com's Amsterdam HQ this week.

27

Marcus Räder: The Road to Building a Unicorn

28

Live from Scale España: The Conversations That Matter in Spanish STR

29

The STR Story Nobody's Telling

30

Airbnb just told the European Commission to do its job.

31

Airbnb, Booking.com and Expedia at all concerned.

32

Greece's 2026 booking pace is in. And the headline isn't what you'd expect.

33

Valencia just rewrote the playbook on holiday rentals.

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22 days.

35

"I Never Meant to Be in This Industry" Scale Co-Founder Gianpaolo on Building a Movement by Accident

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Why SCALE España is the most important conference of the year if you're operating in the EU.

37

Paris just fined one Airbnb operator €585,000. For a single building.

38

Andy Fenner is stepping down as CEO of the STAA.

39

Section 4.2

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Airbnb just launched its most important PR campaign in history.

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What is happening? The data never lies!

42

Valencia just did something no other European city has done. It didn't cap STR's by nights.

43

Airbnb just announced $93 billion in US economic impact. Strategic timing.

44

Portugal just cancelled 40% of Lisbon's short-term rental permits.

45

England's short-let register was due this month. It's not here yet.

46

The short-term rental industry is descending on London next week.

47

Airbnb just published a report that reframes the entire European STR debate.

48

Italy's short-term rental crackdown just entered a new phase.

49

Barcelona's STR ban is still 2 years away.But the market is already moving.

50

Paris city officials are knocking on doors in Montmartre.

51

Greece is freezing Airbnb permits on its most famous islands and the map keeps getting bigger.

52

Nearly 1 billion short-term rental nights booked across Europe in 2025.

53

The STR industry gathers in London in three weeks. The timing is everything.

54

Amsterdam just halved its Airbnb limit. Today.

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Paris is coming for your Airbnb. And the rest of Europe is watching.

56

Spain just refused to let Airbnb dodge a €64 million fine.

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Barcelona isn’t waiting for 2028 enforcement is already defining the market today.

58

Europe just flipped the switch on STR enforcement!

59

Europe STR regulation is no longer “coming” it’s landing.

60

Good news in Europe STR? Yes, if you’re playing it right.

61

This one could be BIG for European STR operators. 'EC -Inc'

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The STR debate in Europe just took a turn

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A different kind of “good news” in Europe STR today

64

“Most Hosts Get Direct Bookings Wrong! Here’s What Actually Works in 2026”

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Spain STR operators this is one to watch.

66

Europe’s STR market is entering a distribution shift.

67

Nice is tightening enforcement on short-term rentals

68

Most European STR markets have always depended on one thing: summer. Is that changing?

69

Norway is quietly introducing a new tool for cities to control tourism

70

Europe’s short-term rental market is quietly professionalising.

71

The UK’s first tourist tax is officially coming.

72

🇮🇹 Italy is tightening the tax regime for hosts.

73

🇬🇷 Greece is tightening the screws on short-term rentals.

74

A new front is opening in the European STR debate, tourism resorts.

75

Who Really Shapes the STR Industry? Inside TruVisionaries

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HOTREC and EFFAT are actively pushing EU policymakers to tighten short-term rental regulation

77

Is Spain’s STR market unstable? Not exactly.

78

🚨 Europe STR Bulletin Granada Leads Today 🚨

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Europe STR News , Barcelona Leads Today

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Spain is tightening reporting obligations under its national STR registry

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🇬🇷 Greece Leads Europe’s STR Momentum into 2026

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Croatia moves to regulate STRs in high-pressure tourist zones.

83

Short-term rentals are increasingly being linked to rising rents. But is that correct?

84

Airbnb Testing Sponsored Listings? Here’s What We Know.

85

UK Short-Term Let Regulation: It’s Coming, But It’s Not Done Yet

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Could regulation actually support STR pricing in Europe?

87

If you’re operating short-term rentals in the UK, you need to listen to this.

88

Strong demand especially in high-end segments but continued regulatory heat across major cities.

89

Southern Europe demand is holding despite the regulatory noise.

90

Airbnb just made a strategic leadership move in Europe and it’s not random.

91

Budapest has just become one of Europe’s clearest warning signs for short-term rental operators.

92

Europe’s short-term rental rules are shifting from local patchwork to coordinated EU action.

93

Regulation across Europe is tightening, but not in the way many operators expected.

94

Regulation in the short-term rental sector isn’t coming, it’s already here.

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The new EU and UK short term rental regulation - How will it affect you?