City Watch
Short-term rental rules in Hot Springs, AR
How Hot Springs regulates short-term rentals: the rules that apply, their sources, and pending changes.
Rules here limit which homes may operate as short-term rentals, how many, where, or for how many nights a year.
- Aggregate hard cap of 400 STR licenses in residential zones, currently met
- No new residential-zone licenses available and no waitlist (as of 7/1/2025)
- Conditional/special use permit required for STR in all residential zones
- Pre-license inspection required
- $50-per-bed annual business & occupation tax plus $475 special-use fee
- Local property manager on-call, on-site within 60 minutes required
Based on: Hot Springs City Code Title 16, Chapter 10 (Short-Term Residential Rental Business); residential-zone cap and appeal
Summary of the rule
Residential Zone Cap is 400 licenses. As of 7/1/2025: NEW LICENSES IN RESIDENTIAL ZONES ARE NOT AVAILABLE.
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