Short-term rental compliance

Get a personal email the moment your city's STR rules change.

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Personal alerts for your address
Source linked to every alert
Non-English cities no other tool covers

Starting at

$19 /month per address

Live compliance changes

Lisbon · Portugal

Containment zone boundaries revised

April 2026 review: 7 neighborhoods moved to absolute containment. Alfama, Mouraria, and Bairro Alto added to restricted list.

Permit affected Source: CM Lisbon Gazette, 2026-04

Houston · USA

STR registration enforcement begins

Ord. 2025-322 in force as of Jan 1, 2026. Certificate of Registration ($275 + $33 admin) now mandatory. Platforms must delist unregistered listings as of April 2026.

Registration deadline Source: Houston City Council Ord. 2025-322

London · UK

National registration scheme expected April 2026

Proposed C5 use class will require planning permission for new STR conversions in high-pressure areas. Existing 90-night cap remains enforced.

Upcoming Source: UK Gov Renters' Rights Act 2025

This is what StayRule does. Every change, every city you care about, in your inbox.

The compliance gap

Granicus serves the city.
No one serves the host.

Every compliance tool on the market — Granicus, Deckard, GovOS, Avalara — sells to local governments and enterprise property managers. They identify violators. They enforce rules. They track registrations.

Not a single tool tells the individual Airbnb host: "Hey, your city just changed its rules. Here's what changed and what you need to do."

Feature

Incumbents

StayRule

Serves the city
Host-facing alerts
Non-English cities
Impulse pricing
Email-first, no dashboards

How it works

From raw government data to your inbox, in hours.

1

Scrape sources

Agents monitor city gazettes, regulatory portals, and municipal websites. Daily. In the original language.

2

Diff & detect

Every change is extracted, normalized, and compared to yesterday's version. Only new or modified content triggers an alert.

3

Email you

Personalized alert with the exact change, what it means for your property, and a link to the source. No dashboards. No logins.

The economics

One feed. N customers. Near-zero marginal cost.

The same compliance feed is sold to every host in Lisbon. The source data costs the same to produce regardless of how many people receive it. That's the data-vending model.

Per host, per month $19–99
Marginal cost per additional customer ~$0
Margin per customer ~90%

Coverage

Start with cities where the pain is real and English tools don't reach.

Active

Lisbon

Portugal · EU

High risk — 19 neighborhoods in absolute containment. AL ratio thresholds halved from 20% to 10% as of Dec 2025.
Language moat — City gazette in Portuguese. No English tool monitors this source.
Gov portal: CM Lisbon Gazette
Planned Q3

Barcelona

Spain · EU

High risk — Moratorium on new tourist licenses. Supreme Court upheld Barcelona's right to cap STRs.
Language moat — Municipal decrees in Catalan and Spanish. Active enforcement ongoing.
Gov portal: DOGC (Catalan)
Planned Q4

Tokyo

Japan · Asia

Growing risk — Minpaku law enforcement tightening. hotels legally required in residential zones.
Language moat — Government ordinances in Japanese. Extremely limited English coverage.
Gov portal: Tokyo Metropolis

Cities added based on: active enforcement, non-English gov portals, meaningful fine exposure, and language coverage.

The stakes

A missed permit deadline costs more than a year of StayRule.

Portland fines first STR violations $1,000+. Houston's certificate of registration is now mandatory — and platforms delist unregistered properties as of April 2026. Lisbon is canceling AL registrations for insurance non-compliance.

Hosts in Barcelona have faced fines up to €40,000. The question isn't whether enforcement will come — it's whether you'll see it coming.

$19
/month per address

Every address. Every city. One price.

"Granicus tracks violations for governments. StayRule tracks changes for hosts. Those are completely different products — and completely different buyers."

O

Oleg Gagarin

Founder, StayRule

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