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

Do you own a place in Longueuil and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that Quebec law protects your right to do exactly that, provided the unit is your primary residence. That's the key condition. Since September 2022, the Loi sur l'hébergement touristique has meant no municipal zoning bylaw in Longueuil, on Montreal's South Shore in the Montérégie region, can stop you from hosting guests in your own home, as long as you register with the Corporation de l'industrie touristique du Québec (CITQ) first.

The catch shows up if you were hoping to run this like a business rather than a spare room you happen to live in. Longueuil zones commercial-style tourist accommodation, the kind offered from a second home, an investment condo, or anything owned through a company, into a short list of areas that already permit hotels, and nowhere else. Turn your own home into a short-term rental, mind you, and the city reclassifies the property for non-residential tax purposes. That's the detail most new hosts never see coming until the bill arrives.

So let's walk through what applies here in 2026: what counts as a primary residence for CITQ's purposes, what registration costs and requires, the three tax layers stacked onto a Longueuil stay, and how hard the city and the province enforce any of it. Run your own numbers through BNBCalc first. Then treat everything below as the compliance side once the economics look good. Every figure here comes from Longueuil's own pages, the Loi sur l'hébergement touristique itself, or Revenu Québec, checked in July 2026, and two layers of law do almost all the work: one written in Quebec City, one written in Longueuil itself.

What are Short-Term Rental (Airbnb, VRBO) Regulations in Longueuil, Quebec?

Start with the provincial layer, since it sets the floor that Longueuil's own bylaws can't go below. The Loi sur l'hébergement touristique (LHT) took effect September 1, 2022, replacing the old provincial tourism-accommodation law, and it requires anyone offering a unit to tourists for pay, for stays of 31 days or less, to hold a CITQ registration number.

Article 23 of that law is the one that actually protects you: no municipal zoning bylaw can prohibit operating a tourist establishment where you offer, through a single reservation, accommodation in your own primary residence to one person or one related group, with no meals served on-site. That's the whole legal basis for hosting on Airbnb or Vrbo out of your own home in Longueuil. It applies everywhere in the city.

A municipality can still claw back some of that, though the process is deliberately awkward. Article 23 lets a city introduce a new zoning restriction through a proper amendment, with the signature threshold for a referendum vote cut in half to make it more achievable. Longueuil has had that option since 2022 and hasn't used it. City officials confirmed as much in January 2026, saying a zone-by-zone prohibition would mean running that process across roughly 1,800 separate zones, and they've chosen not to pursue it.

Longueuil's own short-term rental page confirms the practical result: hosting tourists in your primary residence counts as a residential use under the zoning bylaw, permitted city-wide. Commercial-type establishments, the hotels and general tourist-accommodation category that don't require you to actually live there, stay confined to areas already zoned for hotel-type uses, and the city hasn't added any new zones for that purpose.

Worth knowing here: Longueuil is legally three merged boroughs, Vieux-Longueuil, Saint-Hubert and Greenfield Park, each of which ran its own zoning bylaw for years. A citywide urban-planning bylaw revision, finished in 2025, harmonized those three into one framework. The underlying split between "your home" and "a commercial establishment" carried straight through, though.

One more detail belongs here because it changes the math on any listing. Longueuil's own page states plainly that a short-term rental is a business activity, and it's subject to all non-residential property tax rates under the Loi sur la fiscalité municipale the moment you start operating one. That's a property tax reclassification, not a one-time fee, so don't forget to factor it into whatever return you're modeling before you commit.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Longueuil

That reclassification is one reason "business" is the wrong word for most of what's legal here. If your plan involved buying a second condo purely to run nightly rentals in an ordinary residential neighborhood, that plan doesn't work under Longueuil's current zoning, since commercial tourist accommodation is confined to the narrow hotel-zoned areas described above. What's realistically available is hosting from the home you actually live in, registered with the CITQ, and opened to guests while you remain the permanent occupant.

Two things can still block even that. If you own a condo, the CITQ's own registration guide requires proof that your co-ownership documents permit tourist use, so a syndicate's declaration of co-ownership can forbid short-term rentals entirely regardless of what the city's zoning allows. Be aware of this before you assume registration is a formality. And if you rent your unit, the same document list expects your lease itself, which means your landlord's consent is effectively part of the paperwork rather than an afterthought.

None of that rules out the model, though. It just narrows it down: a primary residence with a spare room or a whole unit you host from while you live there, not an investment property acquired purely to run nightly stays. Once you've confirmed your home clears that bar, licensing is the next real step.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirement in Longueuil

Licensing here means registering with the CITQ, and the fee depends on which of three categories your listing falls into. As of January 1, 2026, CITQ's own fee schedule sets these rates for both a new registration and every annual renewal:

Category	Annual fee
Résidence principale (your own home)	$54
Hébergement touristique général	$156
Hébergement touristique jeunesse	$131

Registration doesn't happen in isolation. Under LHT articles 4 and 5, your CITQ application has to include a document from Longueuil itself confirming the project doesn't contravene the zoning bylaw, so the city's Direction de l'aménagement et de l'urbanisme (DAU) effectively signs off before the province issues anything. CITQ's résidence principale page says the same thing from the other direction: without that municipal consent, no attestation gets issued at all.

Once you clear that, the certificate itself is valid for 12 months, and CITQ still emails you a renewed one automatically each year once you file the update declaration the law requires annually. Registration can still be refused, mind you. The minister can turn down an application if the applicant was convicted, in the prior three years, of an offence under the LHT or under specified consumer-protection, environmental or wildlife statutes. That's a low bar for most hosts to clear, but it's worth knowing it exists.

Required Documents for Longueuil Short-Term Rentals

Getting that municipal sign-off first is worth doing properly, since a rejected CITQ application over an unclear zoning document just costs you time. Here's what the actual registration file needs, per CITQ's registration guide:

• A municipal document confirming compliance with Longueuil's zoning bylaw, obtained through the city's Direction de l'aménagement et de l'urbanisme, either via Longueuil's online permit portal or by contacting the DAU directly.
• Proof of ownership, a property tax assessment, or your lease agreement.
• Liability insurance, with coverage of at least $2,000,000 per occurrence.
• Co-ownership documents permitting tourist use, if your unit is a condo.
• Exterior and interior photographs of the unit.

Make sure the insurance figure and the co-ownership paperwork line up before you submit, since those two are where applications tend to stall. Once the file's complete, the rest of the process runs through the CITQ, and the taxes attached to your first booking are the next thing to plan for.

Longueuil Short-Term Rental Taxes

Three separate charges stack onto a Longueuil short-term stay, and two different governments run them, so the collection rules don't line up neatly. Here's how they break down:

Tax	Rate	Collected by
Taxe sur l'hébergement (lodging tax)	3.5% of the nightly rate	Revenu Québec
GST (TPS)	5%	Canada Revenue Agency
QST (TVQ)	9.975%	Revenu Québec

The lodging tax applies across nearly every Quebec tourism region, Longueuil's Montérégie region included, and it's calculated only on the nightly rate itself, excluding parking or breakfast. GST and QST, by contrast, apply on the whole package, nightly rate, lodging tax and any bundled extras together, which Revenu Québec's own worked examples confirm directly.

Here's the part that actually simplifies things for most hosts. Quebec's 2017 agreement with Airbnb has that platform collecting and remitting the 3.5% lodging tax automatically on every booking, so a host who lists exclusively on Airbnb doesn't register or collect that tax at all. List anywhere else too, and you're on the hook for it yourself.

GST and QST work similarly but for a different reason. Quebec's small-supplier rule exempts anyone under $30,000 in taxable sales across a rolling four quarters from registering. But since July 1, 2021, federal rules require a booking platform to collect GST and QST anyway on behalf of a host who isn't registered, so Airbnb collects these too regardless of your own revenue. Cross $30,000, though, and the obligation to register and remit becomes yours directly.

Keep that non-residential property tax reclassification in mind here too, since it's still the biggest ongoing cost most new hosts underestimate, and it sits entirely outside these three taxes.

Tax Deadlines

Assuming you're collecting the lodging tax yourself, rather than relying on Airbnb to do it, Revenu Québec requires a quarterly return, due by the end of the month following each calendar quarter, regardless of your own fiscal year-end.

GST and QST run on a different clock. Filing frequency is assigned by annual taxable sales, and virtually every Longueuil host stays under the $1.5 million threshold that keeps you on an annual filing. An individual filing annually with a December 31 GST/QST year-end generally gets until June 15 of the following year to file, but must still pay whatever's owed by April 30.

Getting Professional Advice

Given the CITQ registration, the lodging tax, GST, QST and a property tax reclassification all landing on the same rental, it's worth getting an accountant who's actually handled a Quebec short-term rental before rather than a generalist. That single conversation tends to pay for itself the first time a filing deadline gets missed.

Quebec Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

Everything above sits inside a provincial framework that applies the same way whether you're in Longueuil, Quebec City, or a small town on the Gaspé. A few pieces are worth pulling out on their own.

Maximum Rental Period

The LHT defines a short-term rental as any stay of 31 consecutive days or less. Go longer than that, and you're outside this whole regime entirely: it's an ordinary residential tenancy under the Civil Code of Quebec instead, governed by Quebec's Tribunal administratif du logement rather than the tourism-accommodation rules.

Taxation

The 3.5% lodging tax applies in essentially every Quebec tourism region, and GST at 5% plus QST at 9.975% apply on top, the same combination covered in the tax section above. None of that changes by municipality.

Insurance

CITQ registration requires liability insurance of at least $2,000,000 per occurrence, province-wide, regardless of which category your establishment falls under.

Building and Safety Standards

The LHT itself doesn't set out specific fire or building-code items. In Longueuil's case, the city says plainly that its inspectors and the Service de sécurité incendie de l'agglomération de Longueuil (SSIAL) get involved only once a complaint comes in, rather than through routine pre-inspection.

Other Restrictions

A condo's declaration of co-ownership, or a lease's own terms, can forbid short-term rentals outright even where provincial law and municipal zoning both allow them. Neither the LHT nor Longueuil's zoning bylaw overrides a private contract you've already signed, so check that document before you register anything.

Enforcement

Revenu Québec is the enforcement body for the LHT across the whole province, not just Longueuil. Since September 1, 2023, booking platforms have been legally required to verify a listing's registration number and certificate expiry before accepting a booking, and platforms that don't face fines of their own.

Does Longueuil Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

That province-wide platform check is strict on paper, and the penalties back it up. Operating an unregistered establishment under LHT article 28 carries a fine of $2,500 to $25,000 for an individual and $5,000 to $50,000 for anyone else, and operating despite a refused, suspended or cancelled registration under article 29 roughly doubles those ranges again. Fines double on a first repeat offence and triple after that.

On the ground in Longueuil, though, enforcement looks lighter than those numbers suggest. Le Courrier du Sud reported in January 2026 that the city had 325 official CITQ registrations tied to its addresses, fewer than 10 citizen complaints since March 2023, and roughly 10 files that got an initial inspection.

Every one of those complaints gets forwarded straight to Revenu Québec, since that's the agency with actual penal authority here. Longueuil's own role is narrower: check for a registration number, involve fire inspectors if there's a genuine safety concern, and hand nuisance complaints like noise to the police.

One Saint-Hubert case from that same report is worth knowing about if you're weighing how a neighbor might react. Residents there described constant guest turnover, late-night arrivals and speeding vehicles, police responded, and no violations were issued in that particular instance. Watch out for that gap between "technically enforced" and "actively policed." A registration number and a clean zoning file protect you from the province. Whether your neighbors complain at all is a separate question the paperwork doesn't answer.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Longueuil

Given how much of the last few sections depends on sequencing, working through these steps in order matters more than it looks.

1. Confirm the unit is your primary residence, or accept upfront that you're limited to the narrow hotel-zoned areas for anything else.
2. Check your lease or co-ownership declaration for any clause that independently forbids tourist rentals, since neither provincial law nor city zoning overrides it.
3. Get liability insurance in place, at least $2,000,000 per occurrence, before you apply for anything.
4. Apply for Longueuil's municipal zoning-compliance document through the online permit portal or by contacting the DAU directly.
5. Register with the CITQ, paying $54 for a primary residence or $156 for a general tourist-accommodation establishment.
6. Decide your tax setup: exclusively on Airbnb, and the lodging tax handles itself; anywhere else, register for the lodging tax file yourself, and register for GST/QST once you're near the $30,000 threshold.
7. Display your registration certificate and post your registration number in every listing.
8. Diarize your renewal date. The certificate runs 12 months, and CITQ can refuse a renewal on the same grounds as a first application.

Run the property through BNBCalc before step one, so you know whether the numbers still work once the property tax reclassification and the three tax layers above are actually priced in.

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

Four different offices handle the pieces above, and knowing which one owns your question saves a genuinely frustrating amount of back-and-forth.

Zoning and the municipal compliance document: Longueuil's Direction de l'aménagement et de l'urbanisme (DAU) issues the document CITQ needs before it will register anything.

• Phone: 311, or 450 463-7311
• Email: [email protected]
• Address: Hôtel de ville de Longueuil, 4250, chemin de la Savane, Longueuil (Québec) J3Y 9G4

Registration itself: the CITQ handles the application, the certificate and every renewal, and its office happens to sit in Longueuil.

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

Taxes and reporting an unregistered listing: Revenu Québec runs the lodging tax, GST/QST for the province, and the confidential line for reporting non-compliance.

• Denunciation line: 1 855 208-1131, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• Mailing address: Revenu Québec, 3 800, rue de Marly, secteur 4-1-4 Ouest, C.P. 25222, Succursale Terminus, Québec (Québec) G1A 0B5

Noise and nuisance complaints: the Service de police de l'agglomération de Longueuil (SPAL) takes those, with 9-1-1 reserved for anything urgent.

• Non-emergency information line: 450 463-7011
• Division Nord (Boucherville, Saint-Lambert, Vieux-Longueuil): 699, boulevard Curé-Poirier Ouest, Longueuil
• Division Sud (Brossard, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Greenfield Park, Saint-Hubert): 7151, boulevard Cousineau, Longueuil

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

Whichever office you end up calling, the sentiment behind that call is worth understanding too. I'll be honest here: I couldn't find genuine Reddit or BiggerPockets threads specific to Longueuil, and I'm not going to invent a forum discussion that doesn't exist. What I did find, in the Le Courrier du Sud reporting cited above, reads as the closer equivalent, since it's actual residents and hosts on the record rather than a curated thread.

The recurring theme is a gap between the paperwork and the neighborhood reaction. Longueuil residents quoted in 2023 reporting said the provincial rule protecting primary-residence hosting "came out of nowhere" and asked for a neighbor sign-off requirement before a listing goes live, which the province never adopted. Hosts, for their part, seem to treat CITQ registration and the zoning-compliance step as a genuine hassle rather than a rubber stamp, given how many of the required documents (insurance, co-ownership consent, the municipal certificate) can each independently stall an application.

Remember that Longueuil's 325 registrations sit inside a Montérégie region and a broader Quebec market that's far bigger. If the numbers on your specific Longueuil property don't clear the bar once you've priced in the property tax reclassification, the Quebec market is worth comparing against before you assume this is the only option on the table.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you legally run an Airbnb in Longueuil in 2026?

Yes, if the unit is your primary residence. Quebec's Loi sur l'hébergement touristique bars any municipal zoning bylaw from prohibiting that, and Longueuil's own zoning treats it as a residential use permitted citywide, once you've registered with the CITQ. Commercial-style rentals from a second home, an investment condo, or a company-owned unit are confined to the small number of zones already permitting hotel uses, which rules out ordinary residential neighborhoods entirely.

How much does CITQ registration cost in Longueuil?

As of January 1, 2026, a primary-residence registration costs $54 a year, a general tourist-accommodation establishment costs $156, and a youth-accommodation establishment costs $131. The same rates apply to both a first registration and every annual renewal. Registration also requires a municipal document from Longueuil confirming the zoning bylaw allows it, so budget time for that step before assuming the CITQ fee is the only cost.

What happens if you operate an unregistered short-term rental in Longueuil?

Operating without a CITQ registration carries a fine of $2,500 to $25,000 for an individual and $5,000 to $50,000 for a corporation under Quebec's Loi sur l'hébergement touristique, doubling on a first repeat offence and tripling after that. Booking platforms have also been required, since September 2023, to verify a valid registration number before accepting a reservation, so an unregistered listing risks losing bookings on top of any provincial fine.

Do you have to collect the Quebec lodging tax on your Longueuil rental?

Not if you list exclusively on Airbnb, which has collected and remitted the 3.5% lodging tax automatically since 2017. List anywhere else too, and you need to register and collect it yourself, filing a quarterly return with Revenu Québec. GST at 5% and QST at 9.975% are separate, and a booking platform generally collects those automatically as well, even if your own revenue sits under the $30,000 small-supplier threshold.

Can you rent out a secondary residence or investment condo short-term in Longueuil?

Only inside the narrow areas of the city already zoned for hotel-type commercial uses. Longueuil's zoning bylaw treats short-term rental of a primary residence as residential, permitted everywhere, but a unit you don't actually live in falls under the commercial "hébergement touristique général" category instead, and that's confined to a short list of specific zones. For most residential neighborhoods, that effectively rules the model out.

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