Member State detail
Germany short-term rental regulation and SDEP status
Germany has strong city-level short-term-rental controls such as Berlin registration numbers and Zweckentfremdung rules, but no national public SDEP/API documentation is currently available.
What this means
Germany is currently a local-rule-heavy case rather than a visible national SDEP implementation case.
Berlin requires a registration number for temporary holiday-apartment rental of a self-used main or secondary residence, and broader Zweckentfremdung rules protect housing from conversion into holiday accommodation.
Implementation status
Berlin service guidance covers applying for temporary holiday-apartment rental and issuance of a registration number.
Other cities and municipalities, including Hamburg, Munich, Freiburg, Konstanz, Stuttgart, and Mannheim, operate local housing-use restrictions or registration/permit models.
Technical interface
No Germany-specific national SDEP OpenAPI documentation, source code, sandbox, registration-number validation API, or platform onboarding process is currently available.
A German SDEP may need to route to municipal or state-level registration and permit data rather than a single uniform national registration workflow.