Rome Reclassifies Short-Term Rentals as Commercial Use
Rome's NTA revision formally separates STR properties from residential housing, codifies the historic-centre conversion freeze, and authorises neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood saturation caps. Concrete numerical limits are expected by early 2027.
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The Assemblea Capitolina definitively approved the Variante parziale alle Norme Tecniche di Attuazione (NTA) on July 23, 2026 (Deliberazione A.C. n. 122/2026), published in the Albo Pretorio on July 30, 2026. Sixty-seven articles were modified — over half the 2008 PRG norms — but the headline for STR operators is Article 7, which introduces an entirely new urbanistic category: A/3 — “Abitazioni ad uso ricettivo” (Dwellings for hospitality use). Properties that serve as case vacanza, B&B, and affittacamere are no longer classified as residential. They are now commercial/tourist use.
The revision is a framework, not yet a numeric cap. But it builds the legal scaffolding that makes concrete limits possible for the first time.
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