Asbury Park, NJ Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place in Asbury Park, New Jersey and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that Asbury Park never banned short-term rentals the way several towns along this stretch of Monmouth County have, so the door is open. The bad news turns up about a sentence later, though, because the door only opens for people who actually live behind it. You can rent your home for stays of 30 days or less, but the property has to be your principal residence, and the city will want your driver's license, the front page of your 1040 and a recent bank statement before it believes you.

That principal-residence rule isn't a technicality, mind you, and Asbury Park has already defended it at the ballot box once. The current version sits in Article 13-1300 of the city code, rewritten by Ordinance 2024-14 and adopted on May 8, 2024. It caps you at 180 rental days a year, asks $500 up front, and threatens fines of up to $2,000 a day if you advertise before the permit lands. Unfortunately for anyone who bought a second place near the boardwalk and planned to rent it out by the weekend, there's no route in at all.

So let's walk through what it takes to do this properly: which five kinds of property qualify, what the permit costs and how long the city has to answer you, the documents that get applications thrown out, the three layers of tax stacked on a night's stay, how hard Asbury Park pushes on enforcement, and who to call when you get stuck. Every figure below comes from the city's own ordinance and forms or from the New Jersey Division of Taxation, checked in July 2026, and where I couldn't confirm something I've said so. Since you're probably weighing this against a shore town with looser rules, run both properties through BNBCalc before you commit to either.

What are Short-Term Rental (Airbnb, VRBO) Regulations in Asbury Park, New Jersey?

Before you can compare Asbury Park against anywhere else, you need to know what the city counts as a short-term rental, because its definition is narrower than the plain-English one. Under § 13-1300.3 of Ordinance 2024-14, a short-term rental is the accessory use of a dwelling unit for occupancy by someone other than the owner or permanent resident, for a period of 30 or fewer consecutive days, up to a cumulative total not exceeding 180 days in a calendar year.

Two limits hide in that one sentence, so keep both in mind. No single booking can run longer than 30 consecutive days, and all your bookings together can't exceed 180 days across the year. Push past 30 on one stay and it stops being a short-term rental, which means a different permit and different rules.

The bigger constraint is who's allowed to apply, since short-term rentals are permitted in exactly five classifications of property and every one of them turns on the owner living there:

• A condominium unit where the association bylaws or master deed permit short-term rentals, and where the owner legally identifies the address as their principal residence.
• An individually or collectively owned single-family residence that one of the owners legally identifies as the address of their principal residence.
• Up to two separate units in a two-family dwelling, where one of the two units is occupied by the owner as their principal residence.
• Not more than two separate units in a multifamily dwelling, where another unit in the same building is occupied by the owner as their principal residence.
• Not more than two bedrooms inside a single-family dwelling unit, where those bedrooms share the kitchen and bathroom with the occupant, and the rest of the home is the owner's principal residence.

That's the whole list. Everything off it is prohibited by name, because § 13-1300.4c spells out the mirror image so nobody can argue later. A single-family home nobody claims as a principal residence is out, so is a unit in a two-family where the owner doesn't live in the other half, and so is a rented room where the person sharing your kitchen isn't the owner. Condos whose association rules forbid it are out, and boarding houses, rooming houses, dormitories, assisted living facilities and nursing homes never qualify at all.

"Principal residence" is defined tightly enough to matter, and the test runs to five parts rather than one. The ordinance wants the address to be where at least one owner spends the majority of their non-working time, and to be the clear center of that person's domestic life. It also has to be the address on their driver's license or state ID, on the front page of their most recent federal 1040, on the record the U.S. Postal Service holds for them, and on a bank statement from the past three months. All five have to line up, and most of them isn't enough.

Then there's a restriction that catches anyone who assumes a lease is a private matter between two parties. Under § 13-1300.8j the person offering the unit has to be the owner, so a tenant can't apply for a permit or sublet short-term, and the ordinance supersedes any lease clause that says otherwise. Break that and the city can go after the tenant, the owner, the agent and the responsible party all at once.

One grandfathered exception survives, though it shrinks every year. An owner who held a valid Summer Rental License in 2017 under the old Section 12-8 is exempt from the principal-residence requirement, yet that exemption doesn't run with the land. It dies when the permit lapses without a timely renewal, when the permit is revoked, or when the property is sold to anyone else, including an entity the current owner is a principal in. Passing it to family or an estate on death is the one transfer that preserves it.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Asbury Park

Given how much of that turns on grandfathering and residency, the honest summary is short. Unfortunately for most people reading this, there's no short-term rental business to start in Asbury Park, because the thing most investors want, a whole furnished unit at nightly rates with the owner living elsewhere, isn't legal at any price. No permit unlocks it. Buying a beach condo to run on Airbnb is the exact use this ordinance was written to stop.

So what's left is a genuine home-share, and it can still be worth doing. You live in Asbury Park, you register the home you live in, and you rent it, or a permitted part of it, around your own life. What you're modeling is a spare room or half a two-family, not a standalone investment unit. Only one short-term rental contract can run on a dwelling unit at a time under § 13-1300.8b, so renting two bedrooms to two unrelated parties in one week isn't an option.

That 180-day cap won't bind most owner-occupants, which is worth saying since it looks alarming on paper. Memorial Day to Labor Day is roughly a hundred days, and shoulder-season weekends won't eat the remaining eighty. It bites on anyone running near-continuously, so if your model needs 250 nights, price a different market.

Owning a condo adds one more gate. The ordinance permits the classification, but § 13-1300.6c wants a letter of approval from the condominium association with your application, and plenty of shore associations won't write one. Get that letter first. Without it, everything else is wasted effort.

Assuming your property fits none of the five classes, the fallback is the 31-day-plus market, which sits outside this ordinance and runs on ordinary landlord and tenant law instead. Asbury Park handles those through a Certificate of Rental Compliance, which the Code Enforcement department requires before a tenant moves in and again every time the tenant changes. Summer-season and winter leases both work that way, and it's where a lot of shore inventory ends up. For how the neighboring towns handle the same question, the Monmouth County guide covers the rest of this county and the Ocean County guide picks up the coast south of Manasquan.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirement in Asbury Park, New Jersey

Once you've established that your home fits one of the five classes, the permit is still an errand across three departments before it reaches the one that decides. The city's Code Enforcement page sets the order: start at Planning & Redevelopment for a Certificate of Zoning Compliance costing $40, then submit the Short-Term Rental Permit and Certificate of Inspection application to Code Enforcement with the $500 first-year fee. Renewal is $100 a year, and those were the figures on the city's own pages as of July 2026. Be aware that the FAQ and checklist PDFs still print $20 for zoning, so budget for the higher number.

That $500 is non-refundable, and § 13-1300.5c says so explicitly, including where the application is denied. It doubles as the fee for the rental Certificate of Occupancy you apply for alongside the permit, so at least you're not paying twice there. Then § 13-1300.5f adds $85 for each failed reinspection, and the application form carries the same $85 for a 21-day conditional Certificate of Inspection.

A granted permit runs one year from the date of issuance, and here's the part that catches buyers: it expires the moment the property changes hands. A new owner starts over with a fresh application and the full $500, and so does anyone whose permit was revoked or suspended. So do check whether a listing you're buying advertises a permit that evaporates at closing.

Timing is one of the friendlier parts of this ordinance. Under § 13-1300.7, once your application is complete the department has ten business days to issue the permit and Certificate of Occupancy or hand you a written denial with its reasons stated. A denial gets you ten business days to appeal to the City Manager, who then has 30 days to decide, and anything past that goes to the Superior Court. Note the word "complete", though. The clock doesn't start on a package that's missing pieces.

Every application also triggers annual inspections against the city's fire safety regulations and Property Maintenance Code. And no permit issues until four housekeeping conditions are met, all of them in § 13-1300.8l and § 13-1300.8m:

• All tax and sewer charges on the property are current.
• Every open construction permit has been closed out.
• Any outstanding code violations have been properly abated.
• All Municipal Court fines relating to the property, including penalties for failure to appear, are paid in full.

None of those gets waived at the counter. Getting the permit is the beginning rather than the end, too, since the ordinance loads a permitted host with duties that run all year:

• Put the permit number in every advertisement. Print, digital, internet, MLS or a realtor's listing, and the application asks for it conspicuously, preferably at the top of the page.
• File an occupant-change form on every turnover. Names, ages and gender of every occupant plus the rental dates, filed through the SDL Portal, and occupancy can never exceed the maximum printed on your Certificate of Inspection.
• Keep somebody reachable around the clock. The owner, the STR agent or the responsible party has to be available 24/7, and § 13-1300.8g gives them two hours to answer a complaint about the property or the conduct of your guests. The acknowledgement you sign is stricter still, certifying that they can appear in person within one hour.
• Post the information packet inside the unit. Owner's name and phone, the responsible party and agent with their numbers, numbers for the Asbury Park police, fire, Code Enforcement and Property Improvement departments, the maximum on-site parking spaces, trash and recycling day, and a copy of both the Animal House Ordinance and this ordinance.
• Cap the cars. Your rental agreement has to limit guests to one vehicle per two occupants.
• No signage. Nothing on the property, lawn signs included, may identify it as a short-term rental.
• Nobody under 21. The primary occupant who signs must be over 21 and must actually stay there, though younger guests may share the place with them.
• Hand over your listing account if asked. § 13-1300.6a12 makes you give the city full access to your online listing provider to validate compliance, and refusing can cost you the permit.

Losing the permit is easier than you'd expect, and the triggers are numeric rather than discretionary. Two or more substantiated civil or criminal complaints about the property let the City Manager revoke it, after which the property can't be the subject of a new application for a full year. Three substantiated complaints about excessive guest vehicles are separately enough for suspension or revocation, and appeals go straight to the Superior Court.

The money side is unforgiving too, because under § 13-1300.9 a violation of any provision can draw court-assessed fines of up to $2,000 per violation, per day that the violation exists, reaching the owner, the transient occupants, the rental agent and the responsible party alike. Read the "per day" part carefully, since a fortnight of unpermitted summer bookings is arithmetic nobody wants to do.

Required Documents for Asbury Park, New Jersey Short-Term Rentals

Since that $500 doesn't come back and the city's registration checklist warns that incomplete packages are rejected at submission and charged a reapplication fee, it's worth assembling the whole file before you walk it in. Here's what has to be in it.

• Three departmental sign-offs, on the city's own approval form: zoning confirmation that the property isn't in violation of the Land Use Regulations and that a short-term rental is permitted there, Tax Collector confirmation that tax and sewer charges are current, and Construction Department confirmation that no building permits are left open.
• Proof of principal residence, in three parts: a current New Jersey driver's license or state ID, the front page of your federal 1040 with the tax ID and financial details redacted, and a bank statement from the past three months with account numbers redacted. Initial applications need two years of 1040 front pages, renewals only the most recent. The ordinance also calls for a U.S. Postal Service address record showing that's where you get your mail.
• Proof of current ownership: the recorded deed, a tax bill, or another document establishing that you own it today.
• Proof of general liability insurance of at least $500,000, written in the owner or applicant's name, in force for the whole 12-month permit period. Don't assume a standard homeowner's policy satisfies this. Call your carrier before you file.
• Entity paperwork, where the owner isn't a person. An LLC files its operating agreement, a corporation its buy-sell agreement, a partnership its partnership agreement, so the city can see the members and principals. Remember at least one of them still has to live there.
• A condominium association letter approving short-term rental of the unit, for any condo application.
• Signed certifications from the STR property agent and the responsible party that they'll perform their duties under the ordinance, plus the owner's own acknowledgement and a sworn statement that no prior permit for the property was revoked or suspended.
• Parking detail: the number and location of every space available to the premises, counting legal off-street spaces and the on-street spaces directly adjacent.

Where an agent files on your behalf, make sure their written authorization from you goes in the package too, since the checklist rejects agent-signed applications that arrive without one.

Asbury Park, New Jersey Short-Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you clear the paperwork and are able to start taking bookings, there's still tax to settle, and Asbury Park sits in a slightly more expensive bracket than most of New Jersey because it adopted the optional municipal layer. Three charges stack on a taxable stay, and the platform usually handles all three.

Charge	Rate	Who collects it
New Jersey Sales Tax	6.625%	NJ Division of Taxation
New Jersey State Occupancy Fee	5%	NJ Division of Taxation
Asbury Park Municipal Occupancy Tax	3%	NJ Division of Taxation, returned to the city
Combined	14.625%	Your platform, on any marketplace booking

The state pieces are easy to verify. New Jersey's Division of Taxation puts the current Sales Tax rate at 6.625% on hotel and motel occupancies, while its State Occupancy Fee page sets that fee at 5%, reduced only in Atlantic City, Elizabeth, Newark, Jersey City and the three Wildwoods. Asbury Park isn't on the reduced list, so you pay the full 5%, and it has to appear on the guest's bill as a separate line reading "New Jersey State Occupancy Fee".

The municipal 3% is the layer a 2024-era guide is likely to get wrong. New Jersey lets almost any municipality adopt a Municipal Occupancy Tax of up to 3%, and the Division's list of transient accommodation ordinances by municipality, updated April 2026, shows Asbury Park City at 3%, effective February 1, 2021. The city's older hotel and motel tax dates to November 2011, but February 2021 is when it reached short-term rentals. Monmouth County adds nothing of its own.

So who actually hands the money over? In almost every case, not you. The Division's Technical Bulletin TB-81R2 makes a transient space marketplace collect and remit Sales Tax, the State Occupancy Fee and any applicable state and local occupancy tax on the rentals booked through it. Airbnb's New Jersey tax page confirms it collects all locally imposed occupancy taxes on reservations of 89 nights or fewer, so where every booking runs through Airbnb or Vrbo, the 14.625% is handled for you and you never register with the state.

Direct bookings are where it gets genuinely odd, and I'd check this against your own facts first. New Jersey only taxes a transient accommodation when a marketplace books it or when the unit is a "professionally managed unit", which TB-81R2 defines as one where the owner offers two or more other units for rent in New Jersey that year. Asbury Park already forces you to live in the property, so most permitted hosts here are nowhere near three units, and a booking you take directly falls outside the tax entirely. Cross that three-unit line anywhere in the state, though, and you file Form NJ-REG with the Division of Revenue at least 15 business days before renting, then collect and remit the whole stack yourself.

A few exemptions are worth knowing before you argue with a guest about a line on their bill: stays of 90 or more consecutive days, rentals to an organization holding a Form ST-5 certificate, and rentals to the federal or state government. Your rental income is still ordinary taxable income on top of all this, with the apportionment headaches that come from renting part of the home you live in.

New Jersey Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

That marketplace-versus-direct distinction is a state rule rather than an Asbury Park one, which makes it a good moment to look at what New Jersey does and doesn't do above the city. The short answer is that it does very little, and that's precisely why the rules change so sharply from one shore town to the next.

New Jersey has no statewide short-term rental license, no state registry, and no preemption of local rules. The Division of Local Government Services told municipalities as much in Local Finance Notice 2026-09, issued April 7, 2026, which says the rental of short-term transient accommodations "is largely subject to municipal ordinance". The one statute in this area enables rather than restricts, since N.J.S.A. 40:52-1(n) authorizes a municipality to license the rental of real property for terms under 175 consecutive days where the renter has a permanent home elsewhere, and each town then sets its own fee by ordinance, which is exactly what Asbury Park's $500 and $100 are.

Then there's the tax framework, the other half of the state layer, and it runs through local choice too. N.J.S.A. 40:48F-1 through -7 lets a municipality adopt the up-to-3% occupancy tax, an ordinance takes effect only after it goes to the Division of Taxation and 90 days pass, and eight cities are excluded outright. Asbury Park adopted it while many neighbors haven't, so remember that when you compare a nightly rate here against one two towns over. The same headline price carries a different bill at checkout.

Beyond that, everything that matters to you is municipal. Zoning, permits, occupancy caps, inspections, day limits and outright bans get set town by town, and the variation along this coast is enormous. Our New Jersey statewide guide maps the wider picture, so if you're shopping across county lines, start there.

Does Asbury Park, New Jersey Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

Yes, and the design of the ordinance tells you more about that than any enforcement statistic would. Asbury Park didn't build a system that waits for a neighbor to call. It built one that catches you at the advertisement.

Under § 13-1300.8i, failing to get a permit before you advertise on a booking platform, in print, or in the MLS counts as operating without one, and it draws a summons on its own. You don't have to have hosted anybody. The listing is the violation, and the city's own short-term rental FAQ confirms it runs enforcement software to track and identify permitted and unpermitted operations. Since every compliant listing displays its permit number, an unpermitted one stands out in an automated scan.

Two more mechanisms compound that. Every compliant host files an occupant-change form on each turnover, which hands the city a rolling roster of who's staying where and for how long. The permit conditions also let the city demand access to your listing account, so any gap between what you told Code Enforcement and what your calendar shows is checkable.

Behind all of that sits a fine of up to $2,000 per violation, per day, which means a fortnight of unpermitted summer bookings can cost more than the season earns.

What investors most often underestimate, though, is how durable this rule has proved politically. When the council adopted the owner-occupancy requirement in November 2017, opponents gathered a 250-signature petition and forced an initiative onto the ballot that would've removed the principal-residency requirement and let owners rent second homes. Asbury Park voted on it on November 6, 2018, and the Asbury Park Sun reported the question was defeated 1,280 to 2,021, with 61 percent voting no. The council then re-adopted the whole article in 2024 with the residency test intact and the fee raised from $300 to $500, so two councils and one electorate have now looked hard at this rule and kept it.

One honest gap, since I'd rather flag it than guess. Asbury Park publishes no register of active permits, no enforcement report and no citation counts, and I couldn't find those figures on any city, county or state page. Claims circulating about how many local listings are unregistered don't trace back to a primary source I could open, so I've left them out. What's verifiable is the machinery, and it's aimed squarely at people who list first and ask later.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Asbury Park, New Jersey

Given how much of that enforcement lands on advertising rather than hosting, the order of these steps protects you more than it looks. Get it wrong and you'll either waste the fee or hand the city a violation before your first booking.

1. Test the residency question first, honestly. Is this the address on your license, your 1040, your Postal Service record and your bank statement, and is it where you spend most of your non-working time? Anything short of all of those and you're not eligible, unless you held a valid 2017 Summer Rental License and have never let it lapse.
2. Match your property to one of the five classes. Condo, single-family, two-family, up to two units in a multifamily, or up to two bedrooms in your own single-family home. Condo owners, get the association's approval letter now.
3. Clear the three departments. Tax and sewer current, construction permits closed, code violations abated, Municipal Court fines paid.
4. Buy the zoning piece, a $40 Certificate of Zoning Compliance from Planning & Redevelopment confirming a short-term rental is permitted at your address.
5. Assemble the file before you pay. Residency proofs, deed or tax bill, the $500,000 liability policy, entity agreements where the owner is an LLC or corporation, agent and responsible-party certifications, and the parking count.
6. Submit and pay the $500. Expect a written issuance or denial within ten business days of a complete application, and if it's denied, you've got ten business days to appeal to the City Manager.
7. Pass the inspection, which covers fire safety and the Property Maintenance Code annually, with $85 riding on each failed reinspection.
8. Only then advertise, and put the permit number on the listing. Every platform, every ad, at the top of the page.
9. Set up the operating routine on day one: the posted information packet, a 24/7 responsible party who answers within two hours, the one-car-per-two-guests clause, and the occupant-change form on every turnover.
10. Put the renewal in your calendar. The permit runs a year from issuance, renewal is $100, and letting it lapse permanently kills a 2017 grandfathered exemption.

Who to Contact in Asbury Park, New Jersey about Short-Term Rental Regulations and Zoning?

Whichever of those steps you get stuck on, four offices handle nearly all of it, and they sit in the same building at One Municipal Plaza. Knowing which one owns your question saves you a transferred call.

The permit itself

Code Enforcement, inside the Department of Community Development, takes the application, issues the permit and Certificate of Inspection, and runs the inspections. The city's Code Enforcement page lists it this way.

• Address: 1 Municipal Plaza, 2nd Floor, Asbury Park, NJ 07712
• Phone: 732-502-5742
• Fax: 732-502-5738
• Contact: Tamica Smith, Division Manager, [email protected]
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

This is also the number a neighbor calls to complain about your guests. It cuts both ways.

Zoning compliance

The Certificate of Zoning Compliance comes from Planning & Redevelopment, and its zoning page prices that certificate at $40 alongside the city's other zoning permits.

• Address: 1 Municipal Plaza, 2nd Floor North, Asbury Park, NJ 07712
• Phone: 732-502-5724
• Contact: Morgan Astorino, Principal Planner and Zoning Officer, [email protected]
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Applications go in person, by mail, or through the SDL Portal, the same system the occupant-change form runs on.

Tax and sewer clearance

Your permit won't issue while anything is owed on the property, and Tax & Sewer Collections is who signs off that you're current.

• Address: 1 Municipal Plaza, 1st Floor North, Asbury Park, NJ 07712
• Phone: 732-502-5198, or 732-502-5707 and 732-502-5706
• Fax: 732-502-9658
• Email: [email protected]
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For open construction permits, the Construction Department works Monday to Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., reachable through the City Hall switchboard on 732-775-2100.

State taxes

Sales Tax, the State Occupancy Fee and the municipal 3% are administered by the New Jersey Division of Taxation, not by Asbury Park, so questions about what a platform collects for you belong there.

• Customer Service Center: 609-292-6400, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Registering as a business: Form NJ-REG, through the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services, and only where your unit is professionally managed

What Do Airbnb Hosts in Asbury Park, New Jersey on Reddit and Bigger Pockets Think about Local Regulations?

Enforcement machinery shapes how hosts talk about a town, and I should be straight about what I could and couldn't read before characterizing any of it. Reddit blocks the automated access this research runs on, and the BiggerPockets threads that surfaced in search wouldn't open for me, so I'm not going to tell you what any thread says. What follows is my read of the public record I could open, and do weigh it as that.

The loudest recorded expression of local sentiment isn't a forum post at all. It's the 2018 vote. Owners of non-owner-occupied rentals organized, gathered signatures, got the residency requirement onto the ballot, and lost by 61 to 39. Reading back through the Asbury Park Sun's coverage of the 2017 hearings, the split ran between residents who wanted the rule and owners who felt retroactively squeezed, including one homeowner who'd rented for four years and paid the inspection fees before finding herself excluded. That argument never got resolved so much as outvoted.

Among practitioners writing publicly today, Asbury Park usually gets described as strict but workable: clear permitting, real inspections, a 24/7 contact requirement, and an owner-occupancy test that removes investors from the picture. That's a fair summary of the ordinance. Be careful with the numbers those write-ups carry, though, because at least one property-management blog still advertises the permit at roughly $300 a year, which was the 2017 figure and has been $500 since 2024. Plenty of secondary pages also predate the municipal 3% that took effect in February 2021.

Notice, too, where the investor conversation goes instead. Anyone asking about buying to rent nightly on this coast gets pointed away from Asbury Park and toward towns with no residency test, which is a rational answer to the ordinance rather than a complaint about it. Whether that trade is worth making depends on what those towns actually earn, and the New Jersey market data is where the comparison starts.

Something bigger sits underneath all of this, though. A residency requirement isn't a hurdle a determined operator eventually clears, the way a fee schedule or an inspection regime is. It's a rule about who you have to be, and rules like that survive a change of council in a way fee schedules rarely do. Wherever you're buying, that's the distinction worth checking first. Not how hard the rules are, but whether the town wrote them to slow you down or to keep you out.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you legally run an Airbnb in Asbury Park, New Jersey in 2026?

Yes, if you live in the property. Asbury Park permits short-term rentals of 30 days or less in five classifications of property, and every one requires the owner to identify the address as their principal residence, proven with a driver's license, a federal 1040 and a recent bank statement. You need a Short-Term Rental Permit and Certificate of Inspection before advertising. Investment properties, second homes and tenant sublets don't qualify.

How much does an Asbury Park short-term rental permit cost?

$500 for the first year and $100 a year to renew, both non-refundable even if the application is denied. Before that you need a $40 Certificate of Zoning Compliance from Planning & Redevelopment. Add $85 for each failed reinspection. The permit lasts one year from issuance and expires when the property changes ownership, at which point a new owner pays the full $500 again.

How many days a year can you rent a short-term rental in Asbury Park?

A maximum of 180 days in a calendar year, counted cumulatively across all bookings, with no single stay running longer than 30 consecutive days. A dwelling unit can also carry only one short-term rental contract at a time. Stays of 31 days or more fall outside the ordinance entirely and run through a Certificate of Rental Compliance, obtained each time the tenant changes.

What taxes apply to a short-term rental in Asbury Park, New Jersey?

Three layers adding up to 14.625%: New Jersey Sales Tax at 6.625%, the New Jersey State Occupancy Fee at 5%, and Asbury Park's Municipal Occupancy Tax at 3%, which has applied to transient accommodations since February 1, 2021. There's no Monmouth County lodging tax. Airbnb, Vrbo and similar platforms collect and remit all three on bookings made through them, so a host who only takes platform bookings doesn't register with the state.

What happens if you rent on Airbnb in Asbury Park without a permit?

Fines of up to $2,000 per violation, per day the violation continues, assessed by the Municipal Court against the owner, the occupants, the rental agent and the responsible party. Advertising without a permit counts as operating without one, so the exposure starts before your first guest arrives. Asbury Park also runs enforcement software to find unpermitted listings.

Last verified: July 2026. Every ordinance, tax rate, state law, and contact detail in this guide links to or comes from its official source.