COVID-19 (Coronavirus) update
August 11, 2020: We continue to monitor short-term rental activity and the impact of COVID-19 on the industry. The public health team at Vancouver Coastal Health External website, opens in new tab leads on all COVID-19 surveillance.
All short-term rental operators must ensure they adhere to the Provincial Health Order External website, opens in new tab for vacation rentals.
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?
Read our annual highlights report PDF file (1.4 MB)
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:
What's happeningShort-term Rentals Community Working Group
As part of our ongoing efforts to understand the impact of our short-term rental regulations, our volunteer community working group helps provide ongoing insights on community impacts from short-term rentals.
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 January 7, 2021
Enforcement actions
City staff have opened 5,843 case files (1,726 in 2020), closed 5,094 cases (2,438 in 2020), and pursued the following enforcement actions against suspected unauthorized short-term rental units:
*Source: Host Compliance
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