Short-term apartment rentals in Paris

There are two options of legal, short term apartment rentals in Paris: commercial apartments and apartments offered by the owner/occupant. It is very expensive to convert an apartment to commercial status and there are only a few hundred in Paris. These may be offered through agencies but agencies do not screen apartments for legality. Agency operations are guided by the fees they collect. It is the apartment owner who pays the 50,000€ fine for renting illegally.

There are a number of apartment/hotels you might consider: Adagio and Citadines have a number of properties in Paris.

Try Vacations in Paris. Liked dealing with them

You can also find apartments on booking dot com and I believe they do vet for legality. I found apartments on there in Prague, Krakow, and Budapest.

booking dot com and I believe they do vet for legality.

Booking.com generally requires a registration code, but the registration itself is not a legality determinate. The lack of a registration number does indicate potential illegality.

Guest Apartments has been around for a long time. Their apartments are very nice. I think they’d qualify as nicer than average. Guestapartment.com

I have used Cobblestone Paris, https://www.cobblestoneparis.com, and Apartments du Louvre, https://www.apartmentsdulouvre.com. Apartments du Louvre is a family owned business, specifically for renting units under them. Both their buildings have small elevators in them.

Thanks for all the comments. These are great!

I always use booking.com and are very happy.

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Guest Apartment Services. Most apartments are on the islands. Very well maintained, there’s an office that works like a hotel front desk. Unfortunately they only do checkin on Saturday, Sunday or Monday
Vacation in Paris. Based out of NJ. Apartments all over the city and are fairly described on the website. Flexibility is great on check in and check

As for the “registration number” when I can confirm it’s a valid # and the number of days rented against the allowed amount I’ll care. Until then I’m not the Paris regulation body and there is no penalty assessed to the rentee.

I rent from agencies that I trust to deal with any problems and make it right (something i don’t see with booking or airbnb)

I recently saw a short video by Rick Steves, who was visiting Sorrento. Maybe some of you saw it as well. He was commenting on how airbnb has transformed the city and the destruction left in its wake. Sorrento, according to Steves, has lost much of its soul and charm as residents are displaced, their housing transformed into short term vacation rentals, and their being forced to move away to cheaper locations.

Investors have purchased apartments, evicted the residents, and converted the homes of locals into vacation rentals for wealthy foreign tourists. Many small businesses are gone, as are trades that support residents: cobblers, dry cleaners, butchers, grocery stores, inexpensive dinners, repair shops of all sorts, and even schools, doctors, and dentists.

The same is happening in Paris. Residents are fearful of their buildings being transformed into housing for tourists with a loss of community and sense of neighborhood comradery. In building invaded by short term rentals, there are strange people coming and going, at all hours. Strangers who now have access to the security codes that once guarded entry into residentual buildings.

The government has taken steps to curb the destruction and loss of longer term housing for residents, those who live and work in Paris. Airbnb fought the French government for years to halt the enforcement of laws protecting resident housing. Ultimately, Airbnb lost the final court battle, but many of the governments intended protections were weakened, such as fines for online platforms or agencies who knowingly list illegal properties.

While it is true that registration numbers are really for city inspectors, and there is no effective way to track how many days an owner annually rents property short term, I care about neighborhood integrity, and I care about housing for a city's residents and families, and I do not want to see Paris transformed into hallow shell of its former self, just so a few wealthy tourists can "live like a local".

Tourist are visitors, and it benefits everyone if tourists remain welcome visitors and follow the rules established by the governments of the cities we all like to visit.

We used Apartments du Louvre earlier this year.