Fifty markets, read from the code
Covered markets
Each market page carries the same sixteen facts the checker computes from: the definition, the permit, the residency rule, the cap, the fine schedule, and the citations — stamped with the month they were checked.
New York City, NY
A short-term rental is any rental under 30 days. Under the state Multiple Dwelling Law and Local Law 18, renting a whole apartment for under 30 days is barred in nearly a…
Los Angeles, CA
Home-sharing means renting all or part of your primary residence for 30 or fewer consecutive days. Only your primary residence qualifies; rent-stabilized (RSO) units are …
San Francisco, CA
A short-term rental is a rental under 30 nights. Only a permanent resident may register, and only their one permanent residence.…
Denver, CO
A short-term rental is a rental under 30 days. In Denver it is legal in exactly one place: your primary residence.…
Austin, TX
A short-term rental is a rental under 30 days. Austin repealed its old Type 1/2/3 system and census-tract caps effective October 1, 2025: STR is now an accessory use allo…
Chicago, IL
Shared housing means renting a dwelling unit, or part of one, for under 32 consecutive days. Chicago registers the unit (not just the host) and bans some buildings outrig…
Nashville, TN
A short-term rental property (STRP) is a rental under 30 days. Nashville permits two types — owner-occupied and non-owner-occupied — under a zoning-based system that repl…
Clark County (Las Vegas area), NV
Unincorporated Clark County licenses short-term rentals under state law AB 363: the county may not ban them, but licenses are capped at 1% of housing units — about 2,850 …
City of Las Vegas, NV
Inside city limits, Las Vegas requires a Conditional Use Permit (CUV) plus a business license for short-term rentals in residential areas — a discretionary approval, not …
Phoenix, AZ
Arizona law forbids Phoenix from prohibiting short-term rentals. What the city may do — and does — is require registration inside the state's narrow ceiling.…
Scottsdale, AZ
Scottsdale registers STRs under the same Arizona preemption ceiling as Phoenix: registration yes, prohibition no. The city's real enforcement runs through nuisance and pa…
Miami Beach, FL
Miami Beach's STR bans survive Florida's preemption law because they were adopted before June 1, 2011 — the grandfather trap in § 509.032(7). In most residential district…
City of Miami, FL
Miami sits under Florida preemption for duration/frequency — but registration, the state DBPR license, and zoning character still apply, and the city enforces registratio…
San Diego, CA
San Diego's STRO ordinance licenses whole-home rentals by tier — and caps whole-home licenses at 1% of the city's housing stock (about 5,400 licenses, allocated by lotter…
New Orleans, LA
New Orleans runs residential STR permits through a per-square lottery — one residential permit per square (block), drawn by lot when more than one owner applies — plus op…
Honolulu (Oahu), HI
Oahu's Ordinance 22-7 confines legal STRs (under 30 days) to resort zones and specific apartment precincts. Outside them, the lawful categories are narrow: registered bed…
Maui County, HI
Maui County allows permitted STRs in hotel districts and certain apartment districts today — but Bill 9 (Ordinance 5909, signed December 15, 2025) phases out the apartmen…
Houston, TX
Houston — famously the largest US city with no zoning — adopted its FIRST short-term rental registration effective January 1, 2026. Registration, not permission: no caps,…
San Antonio, TX
San Antonio permits STRs in two types: Type 1 (owner-occupied) and Type 2 (non-owner-occupied) — and Type 2 permits are density-capped at 12.5% of the properties on a blo…
Galveston, TX
Galveston — a beach market where STRs are a pillar industry — requires registration of every short-term rental with the city (via Park Board), with a registration number …
San Bernardino County, CA
The unincorporated mountain and desert communities (Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley area, mountain resorts) require a county STR permit — one of California's most expensive app…
Palm Springs, CA
Palm Springs runs vacation rentals by certificate — with a hard cap on certificates per neighborhood (20% of homes) that has frozen new supply in the most desirable areas…
Santa Monica, CA
Santa Monica legalized home-sharing and banned the rest: you may rent a portion of your home while you are present, under a home-sharing permit and business license. Whol…
Anaheim, CA
Anaheim closed the door in 2016: new STR permits are prohibited in residential zones, and the legacy permits were amortized out (with hardship extensions into the early 2…
Santa Barbara, CA
Santa Barbara confines lawful STRs to specific commercial/hotel zones with a permit; in residential zones, rentals under 30 days are prohibited.…
Portland, OR
Portland permits accessory STRs in two types: Type A (host present, up to 2 bedrooms) by permit, and Type B (up to 5 bedrooms / more nights) by conditional-use review. Th…
Seattle, WA
Seattle licenses STR operators (not just units): an operator may run their primary residence plus ONE additional unit — a two-unit lifetime cap per operator — under an ST…
Boston, MA
Boston registers STRs in three owner-occupancy categories — Home Share (host present), Limited Share (host away, capped), and Owner-Adjacent (a unit in the owner's 2–3 fa…
Washington, DC, DC
DC licenses short-term rentals at the host's primary residence only: hosted stays are unlimited, whole-home 'vacation rentals' (host away) are capped at 90 nights a year,…
Asheville, NC
Asheville runs two different answers: homestays (host present, in your primary residence) by permit — and whole-home STRs, which the city banned in most residential zones…
Charleston, SC
Charleston permits STRs only inside a defined overlay — largely the Old City / commercial areas — and, in the residential parts of the overlay, only at the owner's own ho…
Savannah, GA
Savannah issues Short-Term Vacation Rental (STVR) certificates in the wards where STVR is allowed — with ward-level caps (20% of units in the Victorian District wards) th…
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia's 'limited lodging' framework: renting your primary residence short-term is allowed with a rental license and registration (with a day-count line for when a …
Columbus, OH
Columbus requires a Short-Term Rental Permit for rentals under 30 days, in two types mirroring the state pattern: owner-occupied (Type A style) and non-owner-occupied, wi…
Kansas City, MO
Kansas City registers STRs and splits the city by occupancy: owner-occupied STRs register on a light path, while non-owner-occupied STRs in residential districts need a s…
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta's STR ordinance licenses the host's primary residence only: a city STR license, a 8% hotel-style tax setup, and a rule that the licensee be the long-term resident…
Santa Fe, NM
Santa Fe caps STR permits citywide at 1,000 and issues them only where the permit count and zoning allow; a permit is a scarce municipal asset here, closer to a taxi meda…
Salt Lake City, UT
Salt Lake City does not license STRs in residential zones — it prohibits nightly rentals (under 30 days) in them outright, and the city enforces with dedicated staff. Law…
Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth allows STRs by right in specified mixed-use and commercial districts; in residential zones they require a conditional-use approval that the city grants sparing…
Virginia Beach, VA
Virginia Beach requires a Conditional Use Permit for STRs in most residential areas — a discretionary City Council approval with conditions — while the Sandbridge distric…
Dare County (Outer Banks), NC
The Outer Banks is America's classic vacation-rental market and Dare County runs no STR permit regime: the state Vacation Rental Act governs the landlord-tenant layer, to…
Jersey City, NJ
Jersey City's voter-approved 2019 rules cap and permit STRs: a city permit, a 60-night yearly cap for non-owner-occupied-style use (with different treatment when the host…
Big Bear Lake, CA
Big Bear Lake licenses vacation rentals with a citywide permit cap (about 2,450 permits) — in a town of a few thousand homes, the cap and the waitlist are the market.…
Bend, OR
Bend issues STR operating licenses with land-use approval — and applies concentration limits in residential zones (a cap on the share of homes on a block that may hold ST…
Hilton Head Island, SC
Hilton Head adopted its STR permit ordinance in 2023: every short-term rental needs a town permit, with occupancy tied to bedrooms, parking and septic facts — a resort to…
Indianapolis, IN
Indianapolis adopted STR registration in 2025 (permit + platform duties) — and then Indiana's HEA 1210 (July 2026) preempted much of local STR power statewide. The live r…
Breckenridge, CO
Breckenridge licenses STRs inside a zone-cap system: the town is divided into zones with fixed license caps (the core zones have been at cap with waitlists), so the verdi…
Orlando, FL
Orlando's home-sharing rules allow short-term rental of a home only while the host lives on site (hosted) in residential areas — whole-home rentals under 30 days in resid…
Key West, FL
Key West licenses transient rentals tightly: a transient rental license is required, licenses are limited and many are tied to specific properties/areas from older alloca…
Sevier County (Gatlinburg–Pigeon Forge), TN
The Smokies' cabin belt: Sevier County requires an STR permit for rentals in the unincorporated county (the cities of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge run their own programs),…