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
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 November 7, 2019
Enforcement actions
City staff have opened 3,843 case files (2,346 are closed) and pursued the following enforcement actions against suspected unauthorized short-term rental units:
business licences issued for 2019
licences flagged for investigations and audits
warning letters written
legal orders issued
listings referred to prosecution
violation tickets issued
units identified for inspection
business licences suspended
*Source: Host Compliance
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