Short-Term Letting of Your Main Home in Nice
You are away for several weeks: your home can work for you, within the legal framework, without you having to manage anything from a distance.
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- 100% local presence
- 24/7 guest support
- Commission from 20% incl. VAT
Your home, let while you are away, returned as you left it
A summer abroad, an assignment lasting a few months, a long family stay: an empty main home in Nice is a highly sought-after property that earns nothing. Letting it short term is allowed, within a precise framework, and it is a service Hostias handles from start to finish.
The difference from a standard rental property comes down to one thing: it is your home. Our job is therefore as much about protecting the place you live in as about letting it. So that the preparation can be done properly, we work on absences of at least three weeks.
What the rules allow in Nice
Letting your main home as furnished tourist accommodation is permitted, with no change of use, as long as the property genuinely remains your main residence. Hostias is not a legal adviser: the points below should be checked for your own situation on Service-Public.fr and with Nice town hall before any listing goes live.
- 01
Main residence: the home you live in for at least eight months a year
- 02
A cap of 120 days of letting per calendar year, which the municipality can lower to as few as 90 days
- 03
A registration number to obtain before publishing and to display on the listing
- 04
Co-ownership rules (règlement de copropriété) to reread: some clauses govern furnished short-term letting
- 05
If you rent your home: the landlord's written consent is essential before any subletting
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Income to declare and tourist tax collected from guests
Estimate your net income, based on your own assumptions
Adjust the sliders with your own figures. The calculation is transparent and remains indicative: it does not replace a reading of your neighbourhood market.
Your target average rate, excluding peak/low season.
Legal cap: 120 days a year for a main residence, which the commune may lower to 90. Hostias works with absences of at least 3 weeks.
Commission of a concierge service, if you delegate. 0 if self-managed.
5 069 €-6 451 €
for 60 days let while you are away, before taxes. Your usual running costs do not change: this income comes on top.
- Days let / year
- 60
- Gross income / year
- 7 200 €
- Management commission
- - 1 440 €
Purely indicative estimate, calculated on your assumptions. It is neither a market projection nor a guaranteed income. Check the applicable cap on days with your town hall. Cleaning is generally charged to the guest.
What Hostias takes care of while you are away
The scope is the same as for a property entrusted to us year-round, adapted to a short period and to a lived-in home. You have no guests to manage from wherever you are staying.
Listing and photo shoot, with positioning that is true to the home
Pricing adjusted to the season and to events in Nice
Guest welcome, key handover and 24/7 assistance
Quality-checked cleaning between each stay, linen supplied by Hostias
Minor maintenance and on-site incident handling
Tracking of the number of days let, to stay under the legal cap
A full reset of the home before your return
Serious management, without chasing the details
Owners who delegate the execution and keep a clear read on their property.
Google Reviews & Airbnb stays
J'ai fait appel à la conciergerie Hostias pour la gestion de mon logement en location courte durée, et je suis ravi du service ! L'équipe est professionnelle, réactive et toujours à l'écoute. Mes voyageurs sont bien accueillis, le logement est impeccable à chaque location, et la communication est fluide.
J'ai 3 appartements en gestion avec Léo et son équipe, et cela se passe parfaitement bien. Je n'ai absolument pas le temps de m'en occuper, Léo l'a très bien compris, prend des initiatives, et ne me contacte que lorsque c'est vraiment nécessaire.
David-Alexandre Sibony · il y a 2 ansSuper conciergerie avec laquelle je collabore depuis des années. Une équipe soudée et fiable ! Je recommande à 100%. Léo et son équipe sont toujours à l'écoute, disponibles et surtout réactifs. Quel bonheur de travailler ensemble.
Vanessa Soudre · il y a 2 moisPreparing a home, not a rental product
Before opening the calendar, we agree with you what is shared and what is not. This groundwork is what lets you leave with peace of mind.
- Areas open to guests and locked storage reserved for your personal belongings
- A photo inventory of the home before the first stay, checked again on your return
- Fragile items, documents and keepsakes removed or locked away
- Instructions specific to your home: appliances, neighbours, building rules
- An agreed alert threshold: what we contact you about, and what we deal with without disturbing you
When it is really worth it
A main home is not something you let for the odd night here and there. Between putting your belongings away, the inventory, the listing and getting the place back in order before you return, the absence has to be long enough for the net income to outweigh the effort. That is why Hostias asks for a minimum of three weeks. The cases that work best: a whole summer away from Nice, a business trip lasting several months, an extended stay abroad, or regular and predictable absences every year. We tell you frankly, from the estimate stage, whether your project stacks up or not. The revenue simulator gives a first order of magnitude based on the number of days let.
What your property could earn, without spending your time on it
Estimate your revenue potential in 2 minutes. Hostias handles the rest - listing, guests, cleaning, monitoring - so you keep your time and peace of mind.
The day counter, tracked for you
The annual cap is counted in days actually let over the calendar year, across all platforms combined. Platforms often block the calendar once the limit is reached, but each one only sees its own bookings. Hostias keeps the overall count and alerts you before you approach the limit, so that you stay within the rules without having to think about it.
Your return, planned like an arrival
The last guest departure is followed by a full clean, an inventory check and your belongings being put back in place according to the reference photos. Any discrepancy noted during the period (breakage, wear, an item moved) has already been reported to you with a photo. You come back to a home that is ready, not a job to take on.
What you actually get with Hostias
A local team
A real on-the-ground presence in Nice, based at 2 Pl. Franklin - not management run remotely from another city.
Three dedicated agents, 24/7 presence
Guest welcome and support rely on a full-time team that relays each other, nights and weekends included.
Quality control by a housekeeper
After each clean, a second pair of eyes checks the sensitive rooms, the linen and the consumables before arrival.
Monthly owner reporting
Net revenue, occupancy, reviews, incidents and recommendations: you keep governance without running the day-to-day.
Clear commitments
Free photo shoot, free onboarding, free exit fees, linen provided. The scope is written before anything starts.
Honesty over promises
No guaranteed income, no superlatives: a full cost shown plainly, and the right to tell you when delegating makes no sense.
Frequently asked questions
Short, honest answers to frame your decision before you delegate.
Can I let my main home on Airbnb in Nice?
Yes, subject to conditions. The property must remain your main residence, meaning you live in it for at least eight months a year, and the letting must respect an annual cap on days as well as the registration formalities.
- No change of use is required as long as the property remains your main residence
- The registration number must appear on the listing
- The co-ownership rules and, if you are a tenant, the landlord's written consent should be checked before anything is published
How many days a year can you let your main home?
The reference cap is 120 days per calendar year. Since the law of 19 November 2024, municipalities can lower it to as few as 90 days: check the cap in force in Nice with the town hall before opening your calendar.
- The count covers days actually let, across all platforms combined
- Hostias tracks this counter for you and alerts you before the limit
- Exceptions exist (professional obligation, health reasons, force majeure) and are justified case by case
Why does Hostias ask for an absence of at least three weeks?
Because a main home needs finer preparation than a property dedicated to letting: personal belongings, private areas, inventory, a tailored listing, a reset before your return. Below three weeks, this workload can outweigh the real benefit of letting.
- The minimum duration allows proper organisation and limits turnovers
- It protects your home better
- It keeps the net income in line with the effort involved
How are my personal belongings protected?
By groundwork done before the first guest, not after the first incident.
- Owner storage is locked and flagged as private in the guest instructions
- A photo inventory documents the condition of the home before the letting period
- Every clean is checked, and any anomaly is reported to you with a photo as soon as it is noticed
How much does management of a main home cost?
The commission is specific to this service, because the structure of the work is not that of year-round management: a lot of groundwork upfront, a short period, an owner return to organise. It is set before any commitment, on a basis starting from 20% including VAT.
- Cleaning is paid by the guest when it is applied to the booking
- Linen and the photo shoot are supplied by Hostias
- The details are set out in a written proposal before we start, with no hidden fees
I rent my home: can I let it short term?
Only with the written consent of your landlord, covering both the principle of subletting and the price. Without that consent, subletting exposes you to termination of the lease and repayment of the sums received.
- Hostias asks for this written consent before taking on any property
- The subletting rent is capped in relation to the rent you pay
- In social housing, subletting as furnished tourist accommodation is prohibited
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