July 2021
July 2021 opened with a Paris court ordering Airbnb to pay the city 8,080,000 euros over 1,010 listings without registration numbers, on the day the platform made the number a condition of new short-stay bookings for entire homes there. It closed with Vacasa agreeing to go public through a merger with TPG Pace Solutions. In between, resort governments in Colorado and California paused, or kept paused, new short-term rental permits, Wales announced plans for a registration scheme for holiday accommodation, and HomeToGo agreed to a merger of its own.
A look back, written in October 2026 from sources published in July 2021. Stay Gazette opened in July 2026.
World · 1 July 2021Paris Court Orders Airbnb to Pay 8.08 Million Euros Over 1,010 ListingsA Paris court ordered Airbnb on 1 July 2021 to pay the city 8,080,000 euros for 1,010 listings published without a registration number. From the same day, Airbnb required the number on every entire-home listing in Paris that wanted new short-stay bookings.By Tomás Ferreira · Filed 11 October 2026 · 7 min read
The Money · 29 July 2021Vacasa Agrees to Go Public Through a Merger With TPG Pace SolutionsVacasa said on 29 July 2021 that it had agreed to merge with a TPG acquisition company in a deal the two said implied a pro forma equity value of approximately $4.5 billion. The papers filed with it showed homeowners and rival managers how the company described them to investors.By Dana Whitfield · Filed 11 October 2026 · 7 min read
Pictures on this page. 1. Photo: Paris - Vue des toits 01 by Tylwyth Eldar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized). 2. Photo: Portland skyline from Pittock Mansion May 2021 cropped by Truflip99, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).
What else was reported in July 2021
- 6 July 2021The Welsh Government announced on 6 July 2021 a three-pronged approach to second homes that included a statutory registration scheme for holiday accommodation, with a pilot area, to be decided over the summer, where the new measures would be tested. Welsh Government
- 8 July 2021Vrbo, which had largely kept to whole-home vacation rentals, was adding hotels to its listings where travel demand was intense, Skift reported on 8 July 2021. A search for stays in Rapid City, South Dakota, returned a Holiday Inn Express and a La Quinta Inn & Suites. Skift
- 16 July 2021HomeToGo, the vacation rental metasearch company, said it had entered into a definitive agreement to merge with the listed acquisition company Lakestar SPAC I in a transaction put at 1.2 billion euros, with a listing planned on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, ShortTermRentalz reported on 16 July 2021. ShortTermRentalz
- 21 July 2021The Crested Butte, Colorado, town council approved a 12-month moratorium on new licenses for short-term rentals that were not a primary residence, the Crested Butte News reported on 21 July 2021. The town's maximum of 212 such licenses was in use, and Airbnb had emailed area hosts urging them to speak against the measure. The Crested Butte News
- 21 July 2021The Steamboat Springs, Colorado, City Council extended to 13 December its moratorium on vacation home rental applications, first approved in June, on the votes of six of its seven members, a local newspaper reported on 21 July 2021. The seventh recused herself. Steamboat Pilot & Today
- 29 July 2021Placer County, California, supervisors approved by a 4-0 vote an urgency ordinance that stopped new short-term rental permits in North Lake Tahoe for an initial 45 days, the county said on 29 July 2021. It said permitted short-term rentals were about 15% of the 15,747 housing units in eastern Placer County. Placer County, California