active listings in Vancouver*
Our short-term rental regulations help protect long-term rental housing and allow residents to earn additional income.
A short-term rental can:
- Be an entire home, or a room within that home, that is rented for less than 30 consecutive days at a time
- Only be operated from your principal residence – the home where you live, as an owner or tenant, and use for bills, identification, taxes, and insurance
Are our regulations working?
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Get or renew a short-term rental business licence
Your strata by-laws or landlord must permit the use of short-term rentals in your home before you apply for a licence.
Related business licences:
All short-term rental operators in Vancouver must have a business licence and include their licence number in all online listings and advertising, or they may be subject to fines up to $1,000 per offence. Review what we've been doing since short-term regulations were introduced
About short-term rentals in Vancouver
Statistics as of March 2020
Enforcement actions
City staff have opened 4,692 case files (557 in 2020), closed 3,297 cases (641 in 2020), and pursued the following enforcement actions against suspected unauthorized short-term rental units:
business licences issued for 2020 (4,187 issued for 2019)
licences flagged for investigations and audits (126 flagged in 2020)
warning letters written (112 written in 2020)
legal orders issued (55 issued in 2020)
listings referred to prosecution (1 referred in 2020)
violation tickets issued (101 issued in 2020)
units identified for inspection (32 identified in 2020)
business licences suspended (113 suspended in 2020)
*Source: Host Compliance
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