Broward County, Florida Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place in Broward County, Florida and you're trying to work out which short-term rental rules actually apply to you? Almost certainly not the county's. Broward County's zoning and code rules reach only the unincorporated pockets of the county, and everywhere else your city writes the rules that govern your listing. The county's own Zoning office says so directly: it administers the county zoning code "as it applies only to the Broward Municipal Services District (BMSD), which is the unincorporated areas," and if your property sits inside a city, you have to go to that city instead.

That distinction is not a technicality, and it's genuinely expensive to get wrong. Unincorporated Broward covers 11.4 square miles and about 15,937 people across six neighborhoods, while 31 municipalities hold everyone else. So if you own in Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Pompano Beach, Dania Beach, Deerfield Beach, or Hallandale Beach, the county isn't your licensing regulator at all. It's only your tax collector. And the city programs vary wildly: Deerfield Beach charges $100 to register a vacation rental, while Hollywood charges $850 just to apply.

So let's walk through what Broward County itself requires in 2026, what your city adds on top, the three taxes stacked on every night you sell, how any of it gets enforced, and who to call. Every figure below comes from Broward County's, Florida's, or a city's own pages, checked in July 2026, and where something couldn't be pinned to an official source I've said so. If you're still working out whether the numbers justify the paperwork, run the property through BNBCalc first.

What are Short-Term Rental (Airbnb, VRBO) Regulations in Broward County, Florida?

Start with which government is actually writing your rules, because Broward short-term rental regulation runs on layers belonging to different governments, and confusing them is the most common mistake hosts make here.

The state layer applies to everyone. Florida requires a vacation rental license from the Department of Business and Professional Regulation for any whole unit rented to guests more than three times in a calendar year for periods under 30 days, or advertised as regularly rented that way. That's the definition in the DBPR licensing guide, and it doesn't care which side of a city line you're on.

The county layer is mostly tax. Broward collects a 6% tourist development tax on every rental of six months or less anywhere in the county, city or not, and administers that tax itself rather than routing it through the state. Broward also issues a local business tax receipt required of anyone conducting business here. Both obligations are countywide.

The county's regulatory layer is tiny. Zoning, code compliance, and landlord registration apply only inside the Broward Municipal Services District, which is six neighborhoods: Boulevard Gardens, Franklin Park, Roosevelt Gardens, Washington Park, Broadview Park, and Northern County. Unless your address is in one of those, county code enforcement isn't the agency that will knock.

The city layer is where your real rulebook lives. Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Pompano Beach, Hallandale Beach, Deerfield Beach and most of the rest each run their own registration or licensing program, with their own fees, inspections, and occupancy math. Broward County even tells you so on the business tax page: "Check with your municipality before attempting to obtain a Broward County Local Business Tax Receipt for additional local tax, and/or licensing, zoning, or inspection requirements."

So there is no countywide Broward vacation rental license. If a website tells you to get one, it's describing something else, and step one is working out which of the 31 cities you're in. The county publishes a directory with a phone number for every city hall to make that easy.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Broward County

Once you've worked out which of those 31 cities you're in, the next surprise is just how differently it can behave from the one next door. The variation between Broward cities isn't random. In 2011 the Florida Legislature preempted local vacation rental bans, but it wrote the preemption with a date attached: cities that already had rules on the books as of June 1, 2011 got to keep them, and everyone else was frozen out of the strictest tools. So Broward's map today is a snapshot of which city commissions happened to act before that deadline, layered with a decade of registration programs built inside whatever room was left.

That history shows up most clearly in the fees, which vary by a factor of eight between neighboring cities:

• Deerfield Beach: $100 to register, renewed each October 1, under Section 98-106 of the Land Development Code.
• Hallandale Beach: $300 for a new license plus a $25 business tax receipt, under Ordinance 2023-003.
• Pompano Beach: $675 for a single family or duplex and $750 for a triplex or quadplex, then $375 a year to renew.
• Hollywood: $850 to apply for a non-owner-occupied license and $600 to renew, plus $400 for the initial inspection up to 1,500 square feet.

Same county, same state law, same tourist tax, and a spread of $750 in year-one cost before anyone has swept a floor.

The rules diverge in shape too, not only in price. Hollywood requires a noise level detection device in every vacation rental. Pompano Beach requires your 24-hour contact to live within 25 miles. None of that is countywide, and none of it is optional in the city that imposes it.

One trap sits outside government entirely. Florida's preemption binds cities and counties and does nothing about private covenants, so a condo association or HOA can prohibit short-term rentals in your building even where the city plainly allows them. Do check the declaration before you buy, because a six-month minimum in a condo doc ends the plan as effectively as an ordinance would. Our Fort Lauderdale regulation guide and Hollywood regulation guide go deeper on those markets.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirements in Broward County

Whichever city you land in, the licensing stack underneath it has the same shape. Think of it as four accounts you open in order, because the later ones ask for proof of the earlier ones.

1. The Florida DBPR vacation rental license. This is the one nobody can skip, and it comes in two property types and three classifications. Make sure you pick correctly, because the choice drives both your fee and your liability. The property types are Condominium, a unit or group of units in a condominium or cooperative, and Dwelling, a single-family house, a townhouse, or units in a duplex, triplex, quadruplex or similar building of four units or fewer, per the DBPR application packet. The classifications matter more than most hosts realize:

• Single goes to an individual owner or entity and covers one house or townhouse, or units in a single building under the same ownership. The owner carries all sanitation and safety violations.
• Group goes to a licensed agent and covers all units in a building or single complex. The agent carries the violations.
• Collective goes to a licensed agent representing houses or units at separate locations, capped at 75 units and restricted to counties within one district. Again the agent, not the owner, answers.

Fees are refreshingly modest next to the city fees. There's a $50 one-time application processing fee, and a single-unit license runs $170 for a full year, made up of a $150 base, a $10 unit fee, and a $10 Hospitality Education Program fee, per the DBPR lodging fee schedule. Larger licenses scale gradually to $350 for over 500 units, and renewal dates run from October 1 to June 1 depending on the county.

Two DBPR details catch Broward hosts in particular. If your building is three or more stories you must file a Certificate of Balcony Inspection, valid three years, which sweeps in much of the coastal condo stock here. And renting individual rooms rather than the whole unit falls outside the DBPR classification entirely, so no state license is required, though your city will very likely still have something to say about it.

2. A Broward County tourist development tax account. You register with the county's Tourist Development Tax Section, which then assigns a filing frequency of monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual. Several city applications require proof of this account before they'll process anything.

3. A Broward County local business tax receipt. One per location and per business category, valid October 1 through September 30 and renewed between July 1 and September 30. Miss the deadline and penalties escalate from 10% in October to 25% plus a $10 collection fee by January.

4. Your city's registration or license. This is the piece with the inspection, the occupancy cap, and the real money attached.

What about the county's Residential Rental Certificate?

If you own inside the Broward Municipal Services District, you'll run into the county's Residential Rental Certificate, a $75 landlord registration issued under Chapter 39, Article IX½ of the Broward County Code of Ordinances. A code compliance officer inspects the property's exterior and reports any outstanding violations or lot clearing liens. One genuine 2026 change: "effective April 14th, 2026, the Landlord Registration Program will no longer require Annual Renewal."

Plenty of short-term rental websites describe this certificate as Broward County's Airbnb license. Reading the county's own application packet, I don't think that's right. The packet defines the program's scope and then excludes from it "hotels, motels, public lodging establishments, as defined in Section 509.013, Florida Statutes." A DBPR-licensed vacation rental is squarely a public lodging establishment under that statute, and the certificate page never mentions short-term or vacation rentals at all. So the ordinance text points toward licensed vacation rentals sitting outside this program. No county page resolves it either way in plain language, so if your property is in unincorporated Broward, call Code Compliance at 954-357-9791 and get the answer for your parcel before you pay the $75 or skip it.

Required Documents for Broward County Short-Term Rentals

Assuming you've settled which of those accounts you actually need, the forms themselves are mercifully short. What slows people down is that the documents come from four institutions running on four timelines, and most Broward cities reject an incomplete packet outright rather than holding it open. So gather everything before you start any form.

• Your Florida DBPR vacation rental license. Make sure you get this first, since city applications ask for the number.
• Your Florida Department of Revenue certificate of registration, your authority to collect state sales tax and the surtax. Every person who rents transient accommodations must register, and each place of business separately.
• Proof of your Broward County tourist development tax account. Hollywood, Pompano Beach and Deerfield Beach all require an active account, not merely an intention to open one.
• A Broward County local business tax receipt, plus your city's. Most programs require both.
• Interior and exterior sketches. Hollywood wants a floor-by-floor interior sketch drawn to scale showing bedrooms, exits, stairways, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, fire extinguishers and exit signage, plus an exterior sketch showing structures, pools, fencing and every on-site parking space. Pompano Beach asks for the same two drawings. Do these properly, because the inspector checks the drawing against the house.
• Your responsible party or 24-hour contact designation. Name, address, email and a phone answered around the clock. Be aware that this is the requirement out-of-state owners most often satisfy on paper and fail in practice.
• A copy of your standard lease, which several cities require on file.
• Insurance documentation. Hollywood requires a certificate of liability insurance covering injury to occupants and invitees, and warns explicitly that a standard homeowner's or renter's policy may not cover a property used as a vacation rental. Deerfield Beach requires casualty insurance showing a local address of record.
• Proof of a clean code record. Pompano Beach requires documentation of no pending code violations and no unsatisfied liens on any property you own in the city, so one neglected property can hold up an unrelated application.

Broward County Short-Term Rental Taxes

Once that packet clears and you start taking bookings, tax is the next thing to get right. Every Broward short-term stay carries three separate taxes, collected from your guest and owed to two different governments. Most guides get this section wrong, so work through it carefully.

Florida state sales tax is 6% on rental charges for periods of six months or less, covering single-family homes, condominium units, apartments and vacation houses.

Broward's discretionary sales surtax is 1%. The DR-15DSS table for calendar year 2026 shows Broward at 1%, in effect since January 1, 2019 and running through December 31, 2048. And here's the detail that trips up even experienced hosts: the familiar $5,000 surtax cap doesn't apply. The Department says so flatly in the transient rental brochure: "The $5,000 surtax limitation does not apply to charges for transient rentals." Your surtax runs on the whole rental charge.

Broward's tourist development tax is 6%, and because Broward self-administers, this one goes directly to the county rather than the state. The Department of Revenue's local option transient rental tax table confirms both the rate and the collector.

Add them and, as of July 2026, Broward short-term stays carry 13% in combined tax. You'll see 12% quoted in plenty of places, and that figure comes from quietly dropping the county surtax. On a property grossing $60,000 a year, the missing 1% is $600.

Work a booking through it. Four nights at $250 plus a $150 cleaning fee is $1,150 in taxable rent. State sales tax takes $69, the Broward surtax takes $11.50, and the tourist development tax takes another $69, for $149.50 total. Airbnb describes its Florida collection as covering the listing price including any cleaning fee, which is why the cleaning fee sits inside the taxable base rather than beside it.

The two bills go to two places on two forms. State sales tax and surtax get reported on Line D of the Florida DR-15 return, due the 1st and late after the 20th. Tourist development tax goes to Broward County on its own return, also due the 1st and delinquent if not postmarked by the 20th. The county's penalties are harsher.

If your county return is late	What Broward adds
Any late filing	No collection allowance, and a minimum $50 penalty
Not more than 30 days late	10% of the tax due
Each additional 30-day period	Another 10%, capped at 50%

Broward's filing portal also moved to a new address on June 1, 2026, and from that date the county charges $1.50 on e-checks and 2.95% on cards.

Airbnb does collect and remit the Broward tourist development tax, the 6% state transient rental tax, and the discretionary sales surtax on reservations of 182 nights or shorter. Vrbo's behavior in Broward I couldn't confirm from an official source, and platform coverage does change, so pull a recent payout statement and remember to check which of the three taxes was actually collected. Any gap remains legally yours, and Florida makes that pointed: under Fla. Stat. 125.0104(8)(a), a person who fails or refuses to charge and collect the tourist tax is personally liable for it and guilty of a first-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in prison.

Potential Tax Deductions

The deduction side runs in your favor, at least, and the lodging taxes you collect and pass through are not your income, so they never inflate your taxable revenue. The ordinary short-term rental write-offs all apply:

• Your DBPR license fee
• City registration and inspection fees
• The Broward business tax receipt
• Insurance premiums
• Cleaning and management costs
• Supplies
• A proportional share of utilities
• Depreciation on the property and its furnishings
• Mortgage interest

So Broward's city fees are softened, though not made small. If you want to see how an $850 Hollywood license and a $400 inspection land against realistic revenue in that submarket, BNBCalc Markets compares performance at the neighborhood level rather than blending a countywide average no single property ever experiences.

Florida-Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

Those city-by-city differences aren't arbitrary either. Most of what makes Broward's map look so uneven traces back to one paragraph of state law. Florida Statute 509.032(7) sets the boundary on what your city can do to you.

Subsection (7)(a) preempts the regulation of public lodging establishments to the state, covering sanitation standards, inspections, and training of personnel. Subsection (7)(b) is the one hosts care about: "A local law, ordinance, or regulation may not prohibit vacation rentals or regulate the duration or frequency of rental of vacation rentals." Then comes the sentence that created the patchwork: "This paragraph does not apply to any local law, ordinance, or regulation adopted on or before June 1, 2011."

So a Broward city cannot ban your vacation rental outright and cannot set a minimum stay length, unless it was already regulating before June 2011. What cities absolutely can do is require registration, charge fees, inspect, cap occupancy, and enforce noise, parking, trash and life-safety standards. Every Broward program in this guide lives inside that space.

The framework has been remarkably stable. The statute's own history line shows it was last amended by chapter 2016-86, so the rules governing your Broward city's authority haven't moved in a decade. Not for lack of trying, mind you. CS/SB 280 in 2024 would have rebuilt the whole system, adding statewide registration run through tax collectors, capping local registration fees at $150, and preempting the regulation of advertising platforms. It passed the Senate 27-13 and the House 60-51, and then the Governor vetoed it on June 27, 2024. The veto stood.

Since I last checked in July 2026, nothing has replaced it. The 2026 session produced two vacation rental bills, both about water safety rather than licensing, and both died. CS/HB 79 would have required vacation rentals near water to install specified safety features, and it died in the Housing, Agriculture and Tourism Subcommittee on March 13, 2026. Its Senate companion CS/CS/SB 658 got considerably further, passing the Senate 37-0 on February 19, 2026 before dying in House messages on that same March 13 date. Treat all of that as a snapshot rather than settled ground, since a bill that clears one chamber unanimously tends to come back. But don't plan around it, and be skeptical of any 2026 guide describing SB 280 as current Florida law, because it never took effect. Our Florida statewide guide tracks the legislative picture across all 67 counties.

Does Broward County Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

Yes, but you need to be precise about which "Broward" is doing the enforcing, because the county and your city police completely different things.

The county enforces taxes, and it does so seriously. Broward states that rental records are subject to audit by its Records, Taxes and Treasury Division, and it runs an anonymous tip hotline so neighbors and competitors can report suspected tourist tax evasion. The tools behind that are heavier than a code citation. Failing to pay the tourist development tax violates a county ordinance punishable by a fine up to $500 or 60 days in jail, and the county can place a tax warrant lien on the property, issue a tax execution, and garnish money a third party owes you. So the tax side is the part of Broward compliance you least want to improvise.

The county's code enforcement, by contrast, is small and geographically limited. BMSD Code Compliance handles complaints in six neighborhoods, assigning officers by neighborhood. If your property is in a city, that office simply won't be involved.

Your city is where day-to-day enforcement actually happens, and several Broward cities are aggressive about it. Hollywood requires the noise sensor in every vacation rental, runs a 24-hour complaint hotline, and fines $250 for a first offense and $500 after that, with suspension on the third finding of guilt in any rolling 12 months. Operating without a Hollywood license counts as a separate violation every single day, and the city's fee schedule carries a daily fine of up to $5,000. Fort Lauderdale confirms your bedroom count by on-site inspection and caps overnight occupancy at two persons per sleeping room, with gatherings limited to one and a half times that number and never more than 20 people. Its responsible party has to reach the property within one hour when called, and keep a guest register open to inspection.

That last requirement tells you how enforcement really works here. It's overwhelmingly complaint-driven, so the practical difference between a quiet operation and a file at code compliance usually comes down to whether a neighbor can reach a human at midnight. Give them a working number and a noise problem becomes a phone call to your manager. Don't, and it becomes a city record with your address on it. For an investor, Broward is a strong market with genuine year-round demand, and the compliance bar quietly filters out the casual operators who'd otherwise compete with you on price. It rewards being properly set up far more than it rewards being clever.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Broward County

Being properly set up mostly means doing things in sequence, and the order matters here because several of these steps ask for proof that you completed the ones before.

1. Establish which jurisdiction you're in. Find your address on the county's municipality directory, or confirm you're in the Broward Municipal Services District. Everything downstream depends on this answer, and it's the step people skip.
2. Read your city's ordinance and fee schedule before you buy. The spread between a $100 Deerfield Beach registration and an $850 Hollywood application plus a $400 inspection is real money, and the operational requirements differ even more than the fees do.
3. Check the private restrictions. Pull the condo declaration, the HOA covenants, and any deed restrictions. State preemption protects you from a city ban and does nothing about a private six-month minimum.
4. Get your Florida DBPR vacation rental license. Pick the right property type and classification, budget $50 plus $170 for a single unit, and file the balcony certificate if your building is three or more stories.
5. Register with the Florida Department of Revenue for a certificate of registration covering sales tax and the surtax.
6. Open your Broward tourist development tax account and get your Broward business tax receipt. Do these before the city application, and keep in mind that most Broward cities require proof of both.
7. File your city registration and pass the inspection. Bring the sketches, the lease form, the insurance certificate, and the responsible party details. Don't forget to fix any open code violations first, because several cities won't issue while one is outstanding.
8. Set up tax collection and verify what your platform actually remits. Configure the listing for all three taxes, then check a real payout statement. File the state return on your DR-15 and the tourist tax directly to Broward, both due the 1st and late after the 20th.
9. Model the whole cost stack before you furnish. Licensing, inspection, insurance, and 13% in pass-through tax all belong in the spreadsheet. Costs discovered after you've spent $30,000 on furniture are far less pleasant than costs discovered beforehand.

Who to Contact in Broward County about Short-Term Rental Regulations and Zoning

Almost every cost on that list comes with a phone number attached. Broward questions land at five different offices, and knowing which one owns yours saves an absurd amount of time on hold.

Tourist development tax

The Broward County Tourist Development Tax Section handles registration, filing frequency, returns, and anything about the 6% county tax.

• Address: 115 S. Andrews Avenue, Room 121, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
• Phone: 954-357-8455
• Fax: 954-357-6524
• Email: [email protected]
• Online filing: the county's TouristExpress portal, which moved to a new address effective June 1, 2026

That same number and email double as the county's anonymous tip line for tourist tax evasion.

Local business tax receipt

The Local Business Tax Section sits in the same building.

• Address: Broward County Governmental Center, Room A-100, 115 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
• Phone: 954-357-4829
• Fax: 954-357-5479
• Email: [email protected]

County zoning and code compliance, unincorporated areas only

These offices serve the Broward Municipal Services District. If you're in a city, they will redirect you.

• Urban Planning Division: 1 North University Drive, Box 102, Plantation, FL 33324, 954-357-6634, [email protected]
• BMSD Code Compliance Section: 1 North University Drive, #102, Plantation, FL 33324, 954-357-9791. Call here about the Residential Rental Certificate question.
• Zoning: email [email protected] with your address or folio number. The county takes BMSD meeting requests on Wednesdays and Thursdays, 9:00 to 11:30 a.m., except county holidays.
• 311 Broward: dial 311 or 954-831-4000, Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., for anything that doesn't obviously belong elsewhere. Florida Relay is 711.

State licensing

The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Division of Hotels and Restaurants issues and renews your vacation rental license.

• Customer Contact Center: 850-487-1395, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern
• TTY: 800-955-8771
• Mailing address: 2601 Blair Stone Road, Tallahassee, FL 32399-0783
• Tip: the department notes calls move fastest between 8 and 10 a.m. or 3:30 and 5 p.m. Eastern

State tax registration

The Florida Department of Revenue handles sales tax registration, the DR-15 return, and the surtax. It does not handle the Broward tourist tax.

• Taxpayer Services: 850-488-6800, Monday through Friday, excluding holidays
• Email: [email protected]

Your city

For registration, inspections, occupancy, noise and parking, you want your own city:

• Hollywood, Office of Treasury: 954-921-3225, [email protected], Monday through Thursday 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Its vacation rental license page covers applications and fees, and complaints go to a 24-hour hotline at 954-231-2375.
• Fort Lauderdale: registration and the certificate of compliance run through the city's vacation rental program page.
• Pompano Beach, Business Tax Receipt Division: 100 W. Atlantic Blvd, Pompano Beach, FL 33060, 954-786-4654.
• Hallandale Beach, Business Tax and Regulations Division: 400 S. Federal Highway, 954-457-2220 option 4, Monday through Friday 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• Deerfield Beach: Planning and Zoning at 954-480-4206 for requirements, Code Compliance at 954-480-4241 to submit.

What Airbnb Hosts in Broward County Report About Local Regulations

Hosts who've already worked their way through that list of numbers tend to complain about the same handful of things. Host sentiment about Broward clusters around a few recurring complaints, and they map almost exactly onto the mistakes the rules are designed to catch. What follows is my read of the themes rather than any kind of survey, so weigh it accordingly.

• Jurisdiction confusion comes up more than anything else. Owners search "Broward County Airbnb rules," find a county page about tourist tax or landlord registration, conclude they're compliant, then discover their city runs a separate licensing program with an inspection attached. The people who get burned are almost never the ones who read too little. They're the ones who read the wrong government's page thoroughly.
• Condo and HOA restrictions defeat more Broward deals than city ordinances do. On BiggerPockets, an investor who's been buying here for a decade put it bluntly in a Fort Lauderdale short-term rental thread: "None of our condo associations allow STRs - the minimum rental period is 6 months, and has been that way for the 10 years we've been investing there." The same poster noted that multifamily properties in the areas vacationers actually want are hard to come by. That's a real constraint on exactly the inventory that looks most obviously like an Airbnb play.
• Fee shock is common, and it's usually a sequencing problem. Hosts who priced the model on the $170 state license and then met a city fee several times larger are the ones you see publicly frustrated. The cost is knowable in advance. It isn't where people look first, though.
• Tax anxiety runs in both directions. Some hosts assume the platform handles everything. Others double-remit out of caution. Both are avoidable by reading one payout statement carefully, since the three Broward taxes are itemized and go to two different agencies.

The through-line is hard to miss. Broward doesn't punish hosts for operating short-term rentals. It punishes them for assuming one layer of compliance covers all four. Hosts who treat the state license, the county tax accounts, the city registration and the private covenants as four separate problems tend to do well here. If you're weighing Broward against the markets on either side of it, our Miami-Dade County guide and Palm Beach County guide make useful comparisons, since both structure local authority differently enough to change the economics.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you need a license to run an Airbnb in Broward County?

Yes, and probably more than one. Every whole-unit rental to guests more than three times a year for periods under 30 days needs a Florida DBPR vacation rental license, costing $50 to apply plus $170 a year for a single unit. You also need a Broward tourist development tax account and a county business tax receipt. Broward County itself issues no countywide vacation rental license, so your actual operating permit comes from your city.

Does Broward County regulate short-term rentals in Fort Lauderdale?

Not for licensing. Broward County's zoning and code enforcement apply only inside the unincorporated Broward Municipal Services District. Fort Lauderdale runs its own registration and certificate of compliance program, with its own inspection, occupancy limits of two persons per sleeping room, and a responsible party who has to reach the property within one hour. The county still collects the 6% tourist development tax from Fort Lauderdale hosts.

How much tax do you collect on a Broward County short-term rental?

Thirteen percent on stays of six months or less: 6% Florida state sales tax, 1% Broward discretionary sales surtax, and 6% Broward County tourist development tax. The state portion goes to the Florida Department of Revenue on a DR-15 return, while the tourist tax goes directly to Broward County. Note that the usual $5,000 surtax cap doesn't apply to transient rentals, so the surtax runs on your full rental charge.

Can a Broward city ban short-term rentals?

Generally no. Florida Statute 509.032(7)(b) stops local governments from banning vacation rentals or regulating rental duration or frequency, with one significant exception: ordinances adopted on or before June 1, 2011 are grandfathered and stay enforceable. Cities can still require registration, charge fees, inspect, cap occupancy, and enforce noise and parking rules. A condo association or HOA can prohibit them outright, though, since the preemption binds governments rather than private covenants.

Did Florida pass a new short-term rental law for 2026?

No. SB 280 in 2024 would have created statewide registration and capped local fees, but the Governor vetoed it on June 27, 2024 and no override followed. The 2026 session produced two water safety bills affecting vacation rentals, HB 79 and SB 658, and both died on March 13, 2026. Florida's preemption statute was last amended in 2016, so local Broward rules still govern.

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