{"id":488633,"date":"2025-10-10T15:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488633\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:17:12","slug":"squatter-scare-for-short-term-rental-hosts-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488633\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatter Scare for Short-Term Rental Hosts in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French media reports of a growing &#8220;Airbnb squatter&#8221; trend have captured public attention, but industry experts and data suggest the problem remains exceedingly rare.<\/p>\n<p>Reports describe tenants who book short-term rentals through platforms like Airbnb and Booking.com, then refuse to leave after their reservations have ended. In one case that made headlines, a guest in Perpignan near the Spanish border texted the property owner to say they had changed the locks and opened an electricity account.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a six-week-old baby. I&#8217;ve been on the street since she was born. I can&#8217;t take it anymore. For the welfare of my baby, I&#8217;m staying in this property. I&#8217;ve changed the locks and put the electricity counter in my name,&#8221; the guest wrote, according to a Le Figaro investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French media reports of a growing &#8220;Airbnb squatter&#8221; trend have captured public attention, but industry experts and data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[15484,33322,2000,299,36,32703],"class_list":{"0":"post-488633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-airbnb","9":"tag-booking-com","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-future-of-lodging"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115350539145835977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}