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The rules aren't arbitrary — they're a direct response to a housing market that's been tight for a generation.
Vaud's rental vacancy rate has sat below the 1.5% level generally considered a balanced market since 1999 — one of the longest-running housing shortages of any Swiss canton. By 2018, close to 4,000 rooms and full apartments in the canton were listed on Airbnb alone, a figure large enough that two cantonal MPs asked the government to bring platform rentals under clear rules, out of concern that units disappearing into nightly rentals were tightening the ordinary rental market further and pushing up sublet prices.
Since 1 July 2022, the canton has regulated the sector under two amended laws — the act on economic activity (LEAE) and the rental-stock preservation ordinance (RLPPPL). In districts the housing department officially lists each year as facing a shortage, converting a unit that was previously on the ordinary rental market into a short-term let of more than 90 days per calendar year now requires a change-of-use permit, applied for through the local commune. Separately, anyone renting via a platform anywhere in the canton must register with their commune at least 10 days before the first guest and report activity monthly — how communes track the 90-day threshold and confirm the tourist tax is actually being collected.
Beyond the housing angle, this is also a fairness question (platforms compete with licensed hotels on unequal terms) and a two-track system enforced by individual communes rather than the canton directly. Vaud chose to regulate rather than ban platform rentals. Read the full breakdown →
None of this is Montreux-specific — it's canton-wide policy, and it's the reason behind several of the questions owners ask us most (see below). We handle the commune registration, the change-of-use permit where one applies, and the monthly reporting as standard, covered under legal compliance in our management service.
Source: Federal Office for Housing (BWO), Canton de Vaud case study, published 4 October 2024.
Related legal guides: is Airbnb legal in Vaud? · registration step-by-step · Villeneuve rules · tax & VAT · insurance
The market, in numbers
Independent data from Inside Airbnb's June 2026 snapshot: of the roughly 5,300 listings tracked canton-wide, 43% belong to a host running more than one property — the kind of scaled, professional activity the rules above were written for. None of the listings we sampled displayed a licence or registration number in their public listing data (that reflects what hosts choose to show, not a formal compliance audit). We handle the registration and reporting so that isn't a question for our owners.
Source: Inside Airbnb, Vaud dataset, snapshot 15 June 2026. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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