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Milan's ban targets unauthorized key boxes on public structures to improve safety and accountability amid rising short-term rentals, with fines up to €400 for violations.
- Starting in January 2026, the Municipality of Milan will ban key boxes used for short-term rentals, specifically those attached to street furniture and public structures.
- The Municipality of Milan argued that key boxes improperly use public property for private gain without authorisation and cited safety concerns, noting they hinder guest tracking and link to illegal activity in recent judicial investigations.
- Municipal removal operations, acting on ministry directives, warn flat owners they have thirty days to comply or face €100 to €400 fines and removal costs.
- Milan joins other tourist cities where bans mirror Florence, Bologna, Rome and Venice, with legal pushback in Rome and protests by citizens' groups and local committees in Trastevere.
- With the ban due in January 2026, the Ministry of the Interior linked the crackdown to rising short-term rentals and Jubilee 2025, while TAR Lazio annulled a circular and the Council of State confirmed in-person ID rules.
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Key boxes have prevailed in many places in the short-term rental of holiday apartments. Milan now proceeds against it, for security reasons and because of the cityscape.
The Milan City Council prohibits key boxes with code in its efforts to increase the number of check-in times. These allow tourists to enter an apartment without personal contact with the owner. The ban will enter into force from January. Thereafter, up to 400 euros will be due if a key box still hangs near the apartment door. The city police are responsible for checks. The measure is intended to counteract the increasing tourist congestion in th…
It is a decision that replicates that of other Italian cities to limit one of the symbols of the overtourism
Milan also declares war on keyboxes, the keyboxes used for short rentals that in recent years have appeared to hundreds on the streets of the city. Since January...
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