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STR Unpacked is a short-term rental industry podcast that reviews the key news stories of the week alongside an invited sector expert, providing commentary, insight and practical interpretation of how current developments are shaping the market.
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169 episodes
since Feb. 19, 2026
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Airbnb announced two new community policies on Tuesday. For reservations booked on or after Friday 20 November, the host rental agreement comes off the platform.
The trigger is the booking date, not the stay date.
Contracts are permitted only where a law or a community association rule requires it,…
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Poland promulgated a law on Monday that turns a short-let operator into a tax remitter.
Not a collector. A remitter. The distinction is worth money.
The Act of 18 September amending the Local Taxes and Charges Act, the Personal Income Tax Act and the Civil Law Transactions Tax Act was promulgated o…
Turkey is about to cap what the booking platforms can take out of a stay. The cap that was adopted is not the cap that was tabled.
The bill as tabled in August capped the platform's take at 17% of the sale price, under whatever name, with no geographic limit. At the committee sitting on 6 October, …
Belgrade's overnight guest tax rose 50% today. Before you reprice anything in Serbia, work out which limb of the law your stock sits in, because only one of them moved.
The instrument is a government regulation in national gazette 90 of 18 September 2026, made under article 75(1) of the hospitalit…
If you run a Welsh holiday let and you take the listings down for the winter, a 30 day clock starts. Deregistration sounds like something you do on the way out of the business. Section 14 does not say that.
The register duties commenced on 1 October 2026 under WSI 2025/1305. Section 14(1) requires …
Poland's lower house passed the hotel services act amendment on Thursday, 407 votes to 24.
The provision being reported lets a building vote short lets out from 2028. That is in the act. It is also 2028.
The provision that starts 14 days after publication is article 41b, and in translation it reads…
Bavaria's short-let law carries two fines, and both of them need your council to have passed a by-law.
Munich and Nuremberg have passed the one that carries 500,000 euros. Neither has passed the one that carries 50,000.
Start with the 50,000. Bavaria's change-of-use act lets a council introduce a r…
I am at the Vacation Rental World Summit in Lyon, and Spain changed the rules overnight.
Its lower house threw out the 10% VAT charge on short lets on Friday 2 October. It was republished yesterday and came into force this morning.
Royal decree law 29/2026 is in official state gazette 249, promulga…
If you are working to a 14-day rule for short-term lets in Ireland, that number was repealed 7 months ago.
Since 1 March 2026 the planning definition has been a letting "for a period not exceeding 21 consecutive nights". Section 30 of the Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2026 su…
Spain has called a general election, and the short-let VAT charge went down 3 days before it.
On Friday 2 October the lower house threw out both of the government's housing decrees. Two separate resolutions in the state gazette of the same day, 1 per decree, under article 86.2 of the constitution. …
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