The provision of article 51 par. 2 of Law 4647/2019 constitutes for hundreds of thousands of property owners throughout the country with wrongly declared areas in the Municipalities, a real modern “Seisachtheia” ( Official Gazette 204/A) which was legislated on the initiative of the Minister of the Interior Mr. Panagiotis Theodorikakos. The provision, which has been a persistent request of POMIDA for many years, exempts the owners from fines and retroactives and in addition will bring an immediate and significant increase in the annual revenues of the OTAs, states the following:

Complete upheaval in the landscape of short-term rentals. An important final decision of the Court of First Instance of Athens deems short-term leases to be perfectly legal and essentially recognizes that these are the new form of urban leases. At the trial of the case, the owner and the management company were represented by the law firm “Dafni Batsaras & Associates”, which states the following on its website:

The recent insurance decision of the Single-Member Court of First Instance of Nafplio, concerning an apartment in an apartment building of Nafplion,it is clear that it orders the The ownernot to repeat in the future the “professional use of the horizontal property – its apartment as a tourist accommodation” (of Law 4276/2014) and not to carry out short-term leases (of Law 4446/2016), which it is something clearly distinguished and completely different!

THE FOLLOWING PRESS RELEASE WAS ISSUED BY THE CITIZEN’S ADVOCATE: Article 222 of the recent law 4555/2018 (Government Gazette A 133) expressly provides that the exemption from municipal cleaning and lighting fees for unused and non-electrified properties begins from the date of submission of the relevant declaration to the relevant municipality.

The European Commission with its announcement welcomes the final vote of the European Parliament on the energy efficiency of Europe’s buildings. The new rules are believed to make buildings smarter and more energy efficient, saving money and creating jobs in the renovation and construction sector.