Nashville runs one of the strictest short term rental permit regimes in the country, and it publishes the whole permit roll as open data. AirDNA counts about 11,322 active listings in Nashville, while Metro Nashville's own file shows 6,996 permits with an Issued status out of 17,603 permit records. Listings here are claimed by their hosts and checked against that Metro permit file. Listings show neighborhood and ZIP only.
A License verified badge means the permit number on the claim matched an issued permit in the Metro Nashville file. Featured listings appear first.
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Every Nashville rental needs a Metro permit, and the permit is the product. Metro Nashville requires a Short Term Rental Property permit for rentals under 30 days, at $313 to apply and $313 at each annual renewal. Owner occupied permits are available in residential areas; non owner occupied permits are restricted, allowed only in certain commercial, mixed use, and overlay zoning, and they do not transfer when a property sells. Metro publishes every application and issued permit since the program began on its open data portal, and that file is what a claim here is checked against.
The gap between listings and permits is the story. AirDNA counts about 11,322 active short term rental listings in Nashville against 6,996 issued permits in the Metro file. Some of that gap is hotels, aparthotels, and listings just outside Metro's jurisdiction in Davidson County's satellite cities, and we say so plainly. But enforcement is complaint driven and constant in Nashville, three substantiated complaints in 12 months can trigger revocation, and the Metro file shows 164 permits already revoked and 2,276 cancelled. A permit that checks out is worth showing a guest, a neighbor, and the city.
Where the issued permits are. ZIP 37203 (downtown and the Gulch) holds 1,709 of the issued permits, followed by 37207 with 810, 37208 with 722, and 37206 (East Nashville) with 657. The weekly drop tracks new issues, renewals, expirations, and revocations ZIP by ZIP.
The badge is a fact, not an ad. A License verified badge means the number matched an issued permit at claim time. Verification comes free with the Basic listing and is never sold; Featured buys placement only.
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