AMAD
Greece's short-term-rental property registry number; Thessaloniki froze new listings in its historic core.
AMAD, Greece's short-term-rental registry number, frozen for new Thessaloniki listings in the city's historic core from 1 July to 31 December 2026, as national arrivals data show the curbs miss islands taking half the country's tourist nights.
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Why did Thessaloniki freeze new short-term-rental registrations in its city centre?
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Greece's AMAD registry, also rendered AMA, assigns every legally listed short-term-rental property a registration number under the tax authority AADE. It is a registration scheme, not a governing body: it records who may legally list a property, and municipalities layer restrictions on top of it.
Thessaloniki's freeze, effective 1 July, is the first replication of Athens-style containment in this registration-freeze form, layered on the licence-transfer ban Greece imposed on the city in March under Law 5275/2026, the municipal-ordinance route Athens has used to tighten restrictions city by city rather than through national parliament.
Property owners who already hold an AMAD number keep it unless they sell or gift the property, and a repeat penalty within the same tax year doubles to EUR 40,000, making the registry as much an enforcement lever as a record-keeping one.
AMAD freezes new Thessaloniki listings
From 1 July, no property in Thessaloniki's historic 1st Municipal Community may register a first-time AMAD number; the freeze runs to 31 December, with existing registrations struck off on sale or gift though inheritance is exempt, and fines reaching 50% of rental income, minimum EUR 20,000, doubling on repeat.
Thessaloniki is the first city to copy Athens's containment model in this registration-freeze form. But national figures published 27 July show Athens and Thessaloniki host only around a quarter of Greece's arrivals between them, while the South Aegean and Crete, which take almost half the country's overnight stays, face no comparable AMAD limits.