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City Watch

Owner intelligence on the short-term-rental rules around a market — what the public record says, tracked in one place and turned into plain language, with links straight to the authority.

768 markets watched across 51 states.

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768
markets watched
51
states covered
664
ordinance sources hash-verified in the last 90 days

5 new regulatory signals surfaced across 31 monitoring runs in the last 30 days.

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Tap a highlighted state on the map, or open a state below, to reach a market’s City Watch page.

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How the ratings work

Where a market has a confirmed, source-backed baseline, City Watch describes how restrictive its current short-term-rental rules are on a strict-to-permissive scale. A rating is a deterministic projection over confirmed, cited, in-force rules — a proposal never changes a rating. A market without a confirmed baseline reads as research in progress rather than a guess.

  • Restrictive — caps, primary-residence-only, hard permitting, or active enforcement.
  • Regulated — registration plus real operating rules and moderate friction.
  • Light-touch — registration or a few rules, low friction.
  • Unrestricted — positive, citable evidence that STR operation is affirmatively open (a permissive ordinance or a state preemption statute), never inferred from the absence of a rule.

Intensity within a tier is expressed by exposing the rubric’s own input factors — rule-facts such as a primary-residence requirement, a density or quota cap, a residential-zoning exclusion, a per-person or per-parcel limit, an annual day cap, or active enforcement — each shown with its own primary citation, never an opaque score.

Sources are classed by authority, from primary ordinance and statute text down to secondary reporting used only as a lead. A label is shown only when it can point to the specific rule facts that produced it.

How to use City Watch

ReadOpen to anyone. Find your market and read its City Watch page.
Follow marketsSign in as a Member and follow a market from its page to see it in Your markets.
Property impactProperty-specific context opens up once your property is verified. On a property page you’ll see either “Verified” or “Is this your property? Claim it.”
Your own recordsWorksheets for running your rental, kept in your browser: Owner Library: Tools.

System last checked October 7, 2026.

City Watch provides good-faith summaries of publicly available information as of the review date shown. Rules, enforcement, and permit availability can change, and summaries may contain errors or omissions. Ratings describe the general regulatory environment; they do not establish whether a particular property or stay is permitted. This is general information, not legal advice. Before buying, listing, or hosting, verify applicable requirements with the responsible authorities and review any HOA, condominium, deed, or lease restrictions.

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