Short-term rental permit cost in Portland, OR

This city requires the owner to live at the property. If you do not, you do not qualify at any price.

Combined lodging tax: 16.0% of revenue. Charged on what you earn, so it is not in the totals above.

2 figures are not yet verified against the city (Application fee, Inspection). They are left out of the total rather than counted as zero, so the real first-year cost is higher than shown.

Conditions attached

• No citywide cap on the number of permits found. In multi-dwelling structures, triplexes, fourplexes and cottage clusters, the number of dwelling units with an ASTR is limited to 1 unit or 25 percent of the units in the structure or on the site, whichever is greater.
• Portland also charges a flat $4 per night fee on short-term rentals, due from hosts and booking agents for each night a guest rents a room, on top of the lodging taxes (Portland City Code chapter 6.09). The lodging percentage shown includes the 3% Tourism Improvement District fee, which guests may see itemized as '3% Portland Tourism Assessment'. Hosts must register a Revenue Division tax account and file transient lodgings reports quarterly (platforms such as Airbnb collect and remit for bookings made through them). Portland's permit for an ordinary home (Type A, one or two dwellings) is a single $504 fee that is valid for two years and renews every two years. The city's fee schedule lists no separate application fee or inspection fee for that permit type. Only accessory short-term rentals (ASTR) are permitted: a long-term resident (owner or long-term renter) must live in the dwelling unit at least 270 days per calendar year, so renting an entire non-owner-occupied home is not allowed in residential zones. Type A permit (max 2 bedrooms, max 5 guests, valid 2 years) requires mailed neighborhood notice with each application and renewal, Oregon driver license/ID to verify residency, bedroom inspection (legal sleeping rooms, interconnected smoke detectors, carbon monoxide alarms), no non-resident employees, no Type B home occupation, guest transaction records kept, permit number in all ads. Type B conditional use (3 to 5 bedrooms, land use review) is for larger rentals and is not renewed. Must register a City business account and collect and remit transient lodging taxes. Where zoning or building occupancy already allows commercial transient lodging, no Type A or B is needed (listed as Other on the registry). ASTR citations: first offense $1,829, second $5,475, third $9,122.

Source: https://www.portland.gov/ppd/astr-permits
Checked 2026-09-24 · Portland Zoning Code Title 33, Chapter 33.207 Accessory Short-Term Rentals (with ENB-13.02 Accessory Short-Term Rental Permit Compliance); Portland City Code Chapter 7.02 Business License Law