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Cape Town Airbnb hosts could pay triple rates

Short-term letting properties may be subject to commercial rates

The City of Cape Town has drafted a new by-law to apply commercial property rates to all properties available for short-term letting for more than half the year. Archive photo: Brent Meersman

Under a new draft by-law, all Cape Town properties used for short-term letting must be registered.
Properties available on short-term rentals for more than half the year will be subject to commercial property rates, which could be three times higher than residential rates.
Cape Town has more than 27,000 listed short-term rentals on Airbnb alone, with almost 6,000 of these in the inner city.

A new by-law seeks to regulate short-term rentals in Cape Town by enforcing registration and imposing commercial rates on properties that are available to…

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