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Publishing a listing in France

The tourist accommodation registration number, primary residence and the declaration on honor, exemptions, what blocks publication and what never does, the nights counter and its cap, and what a YStay suspension is.

For a tourist accommodation ("meublé de tourisme") located in France, the law known as the "loi Le Meur" (articles L324-1-1 and L324-2-1 of the French Tourism Code) makes publishing a listing conditional on a few pieces of information about the property. YStay checks them at the moment of publication, never after: once your listing is live, it is never automatically unpublished for this reason, whatever happens to that information afterwards.

The registration number

Every tourist accommodation must be declared to the town hall — or, if your municipality has joined it, through the national online service open since 20 May 2026 — which issues a registration number. Enter it on your property's page, in the Tourist accommodation block. YStay does not enforce any specific format: formats vary from one municipality to another, and YStay accepts 8 to 20 alphanumeric characters. Once registered, the number is shown on your listing page, in the summaries on your booking site, and in its footer.

Primary residence and the declaration on honor

You also indicate whether this property is your primary residence, as defined by the regulation applicable to tourist accommodation — this is what determines whether an annual cap on nights rented applies (see below). A checkbox then has you declare on your honor that you have met the requirements for prior declaration and, where applicable, authorization for change of use: YStay timestamps this declaration the first time you check it. It stays in effect afterwards, even if you change the registration number or the property's country.

If you are exempt

Some tourist accommodations are not subject to the registration number requirement. If that is your case, choose an exemption reason instead of entering a number:

  • hotel or tourist residence;
  • bed and breakfast room;
  • mobility lease;
  • long-term rental only;
  • other reason — a reason spelled out in a sentence or two is then required.

Like the declaration on honor, the exemption is timestamped at the moment you declare it.

What blocks publication — and what never does

For a property located in France, publishing a listing is refused if:

  • the property has neither a registration number nor a declared exemption;
  • it has a number but no declaration on honor, or no primary-residence answer;
  • the chosen exemption is "other reason" with no reason given.

None of this applies to a property located outside France.

The "nights known to YStay" counter

For a French property declared as a primary residence, your property page shows a counter: the number of nights already rented in the current calendar year, across every channel, as soon as the reservation is known to YStay — a direct reservation, or one imported from a platform you have connected (Airbnb, Booking.com…).

Calendar blocks you set yourself, or imported from an external calendar (iCal) without an associated reservation, are never counted as rented nights.

The annual cap, and the 80% then 100% alerts

The default national cap is 120 nights per year and per property. Some municipalities set a lower cap by local resolution — as of today, 90 nights in Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, and Montpellier. YStay automatically applies your municipality's cap where one is on record, otherwise the national cap.

When your counter crosses 80% of the applicable cap, then 100%, you receive an email and a banner appears in your console. No automatic action follows: YStay neither blocks nor unpublishes your listing for this reason — it is a reminder, not a sanction. Each threshold is only signaled to you once per property and per year.

If your listing is suspended by YStay

A suspension is a separate step, decided by the YStay team — most often following a report — and it only affects that specific listing: the rest of your account, your other listings, and your booking site remain unchanged. You are informed by a letter setting out the facts and the ground for the decision; your dashboard itself only indicates that the listing is suspended. You can keep editing it, but you cannot republish it until the suspension is lifted.

The exact content of that letter, how to appeal it, and the six-month window to act are described in If one of your listings is reported or removed.

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