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Rome's municipal government; recalibrating STR policy after Eurostat disclosed a one-third undercount of EU rental growth.

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Key Question

Was Rome's short-term rental policy based on Eurostat data that missed a third of the market?

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What is Rome's policy on Airbnb short-term rentals?
The Comune di Roma supports national STR regulation tightening, including the CIN registration system and the Italy 2026 Budget Law's tax tiers. It is now reviewing historical policy calibration after Eurostat disclosed that its voluntary data panel understated EU STR growth by about one third.Source: Comune di Roma / Eurostat
How big is the short-term rental market in Rome?
Rome has one of the EU's largest STR markets by listing volume, driven by year-round international tourist demand in its historic centre. The Eurostat underreporting finding suggests the actual market may be up to one third larger than previously measured data indicated.Source: Eurostat
Has Rome joined the ban on key-boxes for Airbnb rentals?
Yes. Rome is among the Italian municipalities implementing the key-box ban codified in the Italy 2026 Budget Law. Milan's January 2026 key-box prohibition, with €100-€400 fines per offence, was the leading municipal action; Rome follows the same national framework.Source: Italy 2026 Budget Law

Background

The Comune di Roma is Rome's municipal government, responsible for housing, planning, and tourism policy in Italy's capital and most-visited city. In May 2026 it joined Lisbon in facing a data-credibility crisis: Eurostat disclosed that its voluntary STR data panel had understated EU short-term rental growth by approximately one third, raising questions about whether Rome's own STR policy had been calibrated against a systematically low baseline .

Rome has one of the largest STR markets in the EU by listing volume, with the historic centre attracting year-round international tourist demand. The Comune operates under a Left-wing administration led by Mayor Roberto Gualtieri, which has generally supported national STR regulation tightening and has aligned with Italian government moves on the CIN registry and 2026 Budget Law tax restructuring .

Rome's position differs from Lisbon's in that the Comune has the CIN/BDSR national system as its enforcement backbone, rather than a voluntary Eurostat panel, for going-forward compliance data. The Eurostat finding affects Rome's understanding of the scale of STR growth pre-2026, but the post-Regulation SDEP feed should reduce the data gap from May 2026 onwards.