Repentigny Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place in Repentigny and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that no by-law in this city can stop you renting out the home you actually live in. Quebec settled that question at the provincial level, and section 23 of the Tourist Accommodation Act says it plainly: no municipal planning provision may prohibit a principal residence establishment. Repentigny, a city in the MRC de L'Assomption in Quebec's Lanaudière region, has never adopted the special amending by-law that would let it push back on that.

The catch arrives the moment you want to rent something you don't live in. Repentigny's zoning by-law 438 defines a résidence de tourisme as an establishment offering accommodation only in furnished apartments, houses or chalets with a kitchen service, and its specification grids permit that use in exactly one of the city's 470 zones, H1-089. Unfortunately for anyone picturing a furnished condo on nightly rates, that's the whole opportunity. Quebec's open data extract of registered chalets, apartments and résidences de tourisme lists zero of them in Repentigny as of its 9 August 2026 update, against 1,472 across Lanaudière and 358 in Saint-Côme alone.

So let's walk through what it actually takes to do this properly: which of the three legal shapes your property fits, what registering with the CITQ costs in 2026, the municipal certificate almost nobody mentions, the three taxes that stack on a single night, and who to call when the zoning answer isn't obvious. Every figure below comes from Repentigny's own by-laws, Quebec's statutes and regulations, or the province's registration pages, checked in July 2026, and where I couldn't pin something down I've said so rather than guessing. Assuming you're weighing a Repentigny property against markets where a whole unit can legally go on a nightly platform, run both through BNBCalc before you commit to either.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Repentigny

Since the zoning by-law is what decides whether you have a business at all, that's where to start rather than with the platform listing. Repentigny publishes no short-term rental page, no host guide and no dedicated permit. What it publishes instead is a use classification, and your property either lands inside it or it doesn't.

Three shapes are available, and only three.

• Location de chambres. Under article 183 of by-law 438, you may rent a maximum of two rooms to at most four people, inside a single-family dwelling occupied by the building's owner. A legal person doesn't qualify as an owner-occupant. Each room runs 10 m² to 25 m², no room may hold kitchen equipment, and a room below the ground floor needs a direct exterior exit.
• Gîte touristique. Article 184 allows a bed and breakfast in a detached single-family dwelling in a Habitation, Agricole or C4 (commerce d'ambiance) zone. Up to five rooms, same 10 m² to 25 m² sizing, no kitchen equipment, nothing below the ground floor, washing facilities on the same floor as the rooms, no products sold on site, owner living in the house.
• Établissement de résidence principale. This one isn't in the by-law at all. It exists because section 23 of the provincial Act overrides municipal silence, so hosting your own principal residence by single reservation, to one person or one related group at a time, with no meals served, is protected whatever the zone says.

Notice what's missing from that list. There's no route to a second furnished unit you rent out while living somewhere else, and article 179 closes the door explicitly: unless a complementary use is specifically permitted, it's prohibited. Article 180 adds that a dwelling may carry only one of those complementary uses at a time.

The résidence de tourisme use does appear elsewhere in small numbers, though never in a way most owners can reach. Zone H1-089 carries it as a specifically permitted use, added by amendment 438-6 back in January 2017. Zone P2-118 permits code 5833, auberge or gîte touristique. A handful of mixed commercial zones, including IC-469, permit code 583, établissement d'hébergement. Do check your own address against the grids before you assume anything, because a neighbouring street can sit in a different zone entirely.

One more piece of paper attaches to all of this on the municipal side. Article 45 of by-law 441, which governs how Repentigny applies its planning by-laws, says nobody may occupy a single-family dwelling that includes a complementary use without first obtaining a certificat d'occupation. A logement d'appoint or secondary dwelling is exempt. A rented room or a gîte is not.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirement in Repentigny

That certificat d'occupation is a municipal document, and it isn't your licence to host. The licence is provincial, and this trips people up constantly, because the city that inspects you and the body that registers you are two different organisations with two different files on your property.

Registration runs through the CITQ. Section 4 of the Tourist Accommodation Act makes operation of a tourist accommodation establishment subject to registration, and section 2 sets the trigger at any accommodation unit offered to tourists for a period not exceeding 31 days. Rent for 32 nights and you're outside the regime. Rent for 30 and you're inside it.

The 2026 fee schedule in the Regulation respecting tourist accommodation establishments prices the three classes at $54 for a principal residence establishment, $131 for a youth establishment and $156 for a general one, indexed with effect from 1 January 2026 and unchanged as of July 2026. Renewal costs the same amount every year. The CITQ's certificate page confirms the certificate runs 12 months and must be displayed at all times in view of tourist clientele at the establishment's main entrance.

Charge	Amount	Paid to
CITQ registration, principal residence establishment	$54 per year	Ministère du Tourisme, via the CITQ
CITQ registration, general establishment	$156 per year	Ministère du Tourisme, via the CITQ
Certificat d'occupation, complementary use in a dwelling	$103 per use	Ville de Repentigny
Municipal short-term rental licence	none exists	n/a

The $103 comes from the tariff schedule attached to by-law 78-28, adopted 14 November 2023, which prices occupation of a complementary use in a dwelling, listing "logement additionnel, location de chambre, service, gîte du passant", at $103 per use. Later amendments to by-law 78 exist and the city has since taken that page down, so treat the figure as the last published schedule I could open rather than a guaranteed 2026 price.

Renewal timing catches people out, so put it in your calendar the day you're approved. Section 5 of the regulation requires the renewal application and an updating declaration within the 60 days preceding the date your registration ends. Section 7 of the Act adds that no registration can be transferred, which means a buyer inherits your house and none of your paperwork.

Two 2026 changes are already law and worth planning around. Per the ministry's announcement of the amendments, from 9 April 2026 the registration number has to appear in all promotional material including social media posts, and the certificate goes at the establishment's main entrance rather than the building's public one. From 1 September 2026, a principal residence applicant supplies two proofs of principal residence at registration and at every renewal, and owner or co-ownership consent has to be renewed annually instead of once.

Required Documents for Repentigny Short-Term Rentals

Since that annual consent requirement lands in September, the document pile then gets heavier rather than lighter. Assemble it before you apply, because a missing municipal attestation stalls the provincial file, and the provincial file is what the platforms check.

Quebec's registration page lists what goes in:

• Your property title, municipal tax notice or lease.
• Proof of civil liability insurance of at least $2,000,000 per event covering bodily injury and property damage, which section 8 of the regulation makes a standing condition rather than a one-time filing.
• The lease clause or declaration of co-ownership permitting tourist accommodation, or written authorisation from the owner or the co-owners where nothing addresses it.
• Photographs identifying the establishment, inside and out.
• An official municipal document confirming that the use conforms to the planning by-laws. Section 5 of the Act requires it, which is exactly why the zoning answer has to come first.

That last one is the item to start on, and in Repentigny it means the Service de l'urbanisme et du développement durable. The certificat d'occupation application under article 82 of by-law 441 asks for the owner's and applicant's details, plus a description of the existing use and of the principal and complementary uses you're proposing. It also wants a copy of your lease if you rent, the intended start date, a floor plan showing where the use sits in the building, and the estimated cost of any work needed to run it.

Keep in mind that none of this creates a right. It documents one. The zoning either permits the use or it doesn't, and no volume of paperwork changes the grid.

Repentigny Short-Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you clear both files and are able to start taking bookings, there's still tax to sort out, and three separate layers can land on a single night. Repentigny itself levies none of them, mind you. Going through the city's tariff by-law, there's no accommodation tax anywhere in the schedule, so every rate below belongs to Quebec City or Ottawa.

Charge	Rate	Collected by
GST	5%	Host if GST-registered, otherwise the platform
QST	9.975%	Host if QST-registered, otherwise the platform
Tax on lodging	3.5% of the price per overnight stay	The digital platform, where it's a QST registrant
Municipal accommodation tax	none	n/a

The lodging tax is the one specific to where you are. Section 541.24 of the Act respecting the Québec sales tax charges 3.5% of the consideration for the overnight stay in a prescribed sleeping-accommodation establishment situated in a prescribed tourist region, and Repentigny is named by name in the Lanaudière entry of Schedule II.2 to the QST regulation. Where an intermediary makes the supply outside a platform, the same section switches to a flat $3.50 per overnight stay per unit instead.

Airbnb handles that layer for you. Its Canada tax page states that it collects "3.5% of the listing price and cleaning fee for reservations of 31 nights or shorter in the Province of Québec". Hosts already registered for GST, HST or QST should keep accounting for those taxes themselves and give Airbnb their tax ID, otherwise the platform collects on top. I haven't verified that Vrbo, Booking.com and Expedia behave identically, so do check your own platform's tax settings rather than assuming.

The sales taxes follow the ordinary business rules. Section 16 of the QST Act sets QST at 9.975%. The Canada Revenue Agency's guidance on platform-based short-term accommodation then sets GST at 5% in Quebec, on accommodation occupied for less than a month costing more than $20 a night, and registration is generally required once your taxable supplies pass $30,000 over 12 months. Below that you're a small supplier and the platform collects instead.

Then there's the federal rule that turns compliance into a tax question. Section 67.7 of the Income Tax Act denies deductions for a non-compliant short-term rental, meaning one operated where short-term rentals aren't permitted or one that fails a registration, licensing or permit requirement. The denied share is your expenses multiplied by non-compliant days divided by short-term rental days. Run an unregistered listing in the wrong Repentigny zone and you lose the mortgage interest, the insurance and the maintenance deductions along with it.

Quebec Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

Losing your deductions is the quiet penalty. The loud ones sit in the provincial Act, and they're why so many Quebec hosts finally registered after 2023.

The framework is the Tourist Accommodation Act, chapter H-1.01, in force since 2022 and amended in 2023. Section 20.1 is the provision that made it stick. It bars any digital accommodation platform from disseminating an offering that lacks the establishment's registration number or the certificate's expiry date, and from enabling a rental contract for a stay of less than 32 days at an establishment that isn't registered, or whose registration has expired, been suspended or been cancelled. Enforcement stopped depending on an inspector spotting your listing.

The fines escalate hard, and they're set out on the province's offences and fines page as well as in the Act itself.

• Operating without registration, or advertising a false, expired, suspended or cancelled number: $2,500 to $25,000 for a natural person, $5,000 to $50,000 otherwise, under section 28.
• Operating after a registration is refused, suspended or cancelled: $5,000 to $50,000 for a natural person, $10,000 to $100,000 otherwise, under section 29.
• A platform breaching section 20.1: $5,000 to $50,000, or $10,000 to $100,000 for anything other than a natural person, under section 29.1.
• Failing to provide required information or documents: $500 to $5,000, or $1,000 to $10,000 otherwise, under section 26.

Section 30 then doubles the minimum and maximum for a second offence and triples them for any subsequent one. And under section 55, it's Revenu Québec, not the Ministère du Tourisme, that runs the inspections and investigations, with the Act deemed a fiscal law for that purpose.

Section 23 is the provision that gives Repentigny hosts their protected route, so it's worth understanding how narrow the exception to it is. A municipality that wants to prohibit principal residence hosting has to pass a zoning or conditional use amendment under Division V of the Act respecting land use planning and development. Every zone is then deemed to have applied for a referendum, and the signature threshold under section 553 of the Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities is cut by 50%. That's a deliberately hard road, and Repentigny hasn't taken it. The phrase "résidence principale" doesn't appear anywhere in its zoning by-law.

Does Repentigny Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

Whether the city itself pushes hard is a different question from whether the rules get enforced, and here the honest answer is that the province does most of the work. Repentigny publishes no inspection counts, no enforcement press releases and no short-term rental complaints data, so there's no way to measure municipal activity directly. What can be measured is what happens province-wide, and the trend is not subtle.

Compliance among listings shown on both Airbnb and Vrbo ran at 34.5% in 2022 and reached 87.6% in 2025, per the ministry's own figures published with the 2026 regulation amendments. That jump came from section 20.1. An unregistered Quebec listing now struggles to stay online at all, which is a very different risk from a fine that might arrive later.

The municipal penalties still matter, and they compound in a way people underestimate. Article 21 of by-law 441 sets a first offence against any planning by-law at $200 to $1,000 for a natural person and $300 to $2,000 for a legal person, rising to $400 to $2,000 and $600 to $4,000 on a repeat within two years. Then comes article 22. Where an offence is continuous, it constitutes a distinct and separate offence day after day, and the fine can be imposed for every day it lasts. That's not a one-time ticket. It accrues, so a use that runs unlawfully from June to September can draw a separate fine for each of those days.

Watch out for the noise route as well, because it connects to your registration in a way most hosts never see coming. Repentigny's noise by-law 44 prohibits shouting, music and any noise liable to disturb the peace or harm a neighbour's comfort, well-being or rest, with fines from $100 to $1,000 on a first offence for an individual and $200 to $2,000 on a repeat. Now read that next to section 10 of the provincial regulation: two convictions in 12 months under municipal by-laws on uses, nuisances, sanitation or safety can ground a suspension or cancellation of your registration, and for a principal residence establishment, convictions of your guests count. Two loud parties, two tickets, and the city has a lever on your CITQ file.

The province also feeds Repentigny the data. Section 11 of the regulation lets a municipality request the name, civic address and email of each establishment, its class, the operator's name, the registration date and the number and type of units. The public register publishes class, number, issue and expiry dates and status to anyone who looks.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Repentigny

Given how much of that hinges on your zone, the order of the steps below matters more than it looks. Get the first one wrong and everything after it is wasted effort.

1. Find your zone and read its grid. Pull the specification grids annexe of by-law 438 and locate your address. Unless you're in H1-089, a résidence de tourisme is not on the table, and you're choosing between a rented room, a gîte or hosting your own principal residence.
2. Pick the shape that actually fits. Two rooms and four guests under article 183, five rooms under article 184 in a detached house, or a principal residence establishment under section 23 of the provincial Act. Remember that articles 183 and 184 both require the owner to live in the building, and a company can't satisfy that.
3. Call the Service de l'urbanisme before you spend anything. Ask for the municipal conformity document the CITQ will demand, and confirm whether your project needs a certificat d'occupation under article 45 of by-law 441.
4. Sort the consents. Your lease, your declaration of co-ownership, or written authorisation from the owner or syndicate. From 1 September 2026 that consent has to be renewed every year.
5. Buy the insurance first. Civil liability of at least $2,000,000 per event is a condition of registration, not a nice-to-have, and you'll be attaching proof of it to the application.
6. Register with the CITQ and pay the fee. $54 for a principal residence establishment, $156 for a general one, renewed annually within the 60 days before expiry.
7. Put the number everywhere the law requires. Registration number and, where applicable, the establishment name in every listing and every piece of promotional material, including social media from 9 April 2026, plus the certificate displayed at the main entrance.
8. Set your tax position before the first guest. Decide whether you're registering for GST and QST or staying under the $30,000 threshold, and check that your platform is collecting the 3.5% lodging tax rather than leaving it to you.
9. Write the house rules that protect the registration. Quiet hours, guest counts, parking. Two nuisance convictions in a year can put your provincial file at risk, so the noise policy is compliance, not hospitality.

Who to Contact in Repentigny about Short-Term Rental Regulations and Zoning?

Step three is where most people get stuck, so here's who actually answers. Three organisations split the work between them, and knowing which one owns your question saves an afternoon.

Zoning, permits and the municipal conformity document

The Service de l'urbanisme et du développement durable administers by-laws 438 and 441, issues the certificat d'occupation, and is the office that confirms your use conforms to the planning by-laws.

• Address: 435, boul. Iberville, Repentigny (QC) J6A 2B6
• Phone: 450 470-3840
• Email: [email protected]
• Hôtel de ville switchboard: 450 470-3000
• Hours: Monday to Thursday 8:15 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Friday 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., per the city's coordonnées des installations page

Registration, renewals and the certificate

The CITQ handles registration on the minister's behalf, and its contact page lists the following.

• Address: 1010, De Sérigny, bureau 810, Longueuil (Québec) J4K 5G7
• Phone: 450 679-3737, or toll free 1 866 499-0550
• Fax: 450 679-1489
• Email: [email protected]

Inspections, investigations and fines

Revenu Québec enforces the Tourist Accommodation Act under section 55, and the province's offences page lists its lines alongside the ministry's mailbox.

• Toll free: 1 866 423-3234
• Québec City: 418 659-2281
• Montréal: 514 873-3474
• Ministère du Tourisme: [email protected]

For a neighbour complaint about noise or an unlawful use, the route is the city's general citizen line at 450 470-3400 or [email protected]. Worth knowing in both directions, that one.

What Do Airbnb Hosts in Repentigny on Reddit and Bigger Pockets Think about Local Regulations?

Those complaint routes shape the conversation more than the statute does, and what follows is my editorial read of the recurring themes rather than a survey. Reddit blocks automated access and its platform terms don't permit the commercial use this would represent, so nothing here is quoted from a thread, and I haven't attributed anything to a named forum post.

The pattern I keep seeing in Quebec host discussion breaks down roughly like this.

• Owners discover the zoning question last, not first. The registration fee is small and the CITQ process is well documented, so people register, then find out the municipal conformity document is the actual gate. In a city like Repentigny, where a résidence de tourisme sits in one zone out of 470, that ordering costs real money.
• The 31-day line is the workaround people land on. A stay of 32 nights or more falls outside the Act entirely, which pushes owners toward furnished mid-term rentals under ordinary lease law. That's a different business with different economics, though it's genuinely legal in far more of the city.
• Platform delisting is the risk that changed behaviour. Since section 20.1 took hold, hosts talk about compliance in terms of staying visible rather than avoiding fines. An 87.6% compliance rate suggests that framing is accurate.
• Nobody argues that Quebec doesn't enforce. The debate has moved on to whether a $54 registration and an annual consent form are proportionate for someone renting a spare room ten weekends a year.

Take the first point seriously if you're shopping for a property here. Two houses on the same street can sit in different zones, and the grid, not the listing photos, decides what you're allowed to do. Running the numbers before you buy is the cheap part, and BNBCalc will tell you what a given address can realistically earn before you spend anything on paperwork.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you legally run an Airbnb in Repentigny in 2026?

Yes, in one main shape. Section 23 of Quebec's Tourist Accommodation Act stops any municipal planning by-law from prohibiting a principal residence establishment, so hosting the home you live in is protected, and Repentigny has not adopted the special amending by-law that would change that. Registration with the CITQ is mandatory and costs $54 a year. Renting a separate furnished unit is a résidence de tourisme, which Repentigny's zoning by-law 438 permits in only one zone.

How much does short-term rental registration cost in Repentigny?

The provincial registration fee for 2026 is $54 for a principal residence establishment, $131 for a youth establishment and $156 for a general establishment, renewed at the same price every 12 months. Repentigny charges no short-term rental licence of its own. Where a rented room or a gîte touristique counts as a complementary use in a dwelling, the city's tariff schedule prices the required certificat d'occupation at $103 per use.

What happens if you host in Repentigny without registering?

Operating an unregistered tourist accommodation establishment carries a fine of $2,500 to $25,000 for an individual and $5,000 to $50,000 in all other cases, doubled on a second offence and tripled after that. Revenu Québec runs the inspections. Booking platforms are separately barred from enabling a contract for a stay under 32 days at an unregistered establishment, so in practice the listing usually disappears before any fine arrives.

Does Airbnb collect Quebec's lodging tax for Repentigny hosts?

Airbnb states that it collects 3.5% of the listing price and cleaning fee for reservations of 31 nights or shorter anywhere in Quebec, and Repentigny is inside the prescribed Lanaudière tourist region for that tax. GST at 5% and QST at 9.975% work differently: a host registered for those taxes accounts for them personally and should supply a tax ID so the platform doesn't collect twice. Other booking platforms may handle it differently.

Can you rent a whole apartment in Repentigny on nightly rates?

Almost certainly not. A furnished apartment, house or chalet with a kitchen rented to tourists is a résidence de tourisme under zoning by-law 438, and Repentigny's specification grids permit that use in a single zone, H1-089, out of 470. Everywhere else the residential options require the owner to live in the building, either renting two rooms to a maximum of four guests or running a five-room gîte touristique in a detached house. Stays of 32 nights or more fall outside the tourist accommodation regime altogether.

Zoning is the part that decides whether a short-term rental is a business or a fine, and it's the part almost nobody checks before they buy. Wherever you're looking, whether that's here or anywhere across the Canada short-term rental market, read the grid for the specific address before you read the revenue projection.

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