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Santa Fe to deploy software to find unlicensed short‑term rentals; 250 listings flagged
Summary
City staff told the Finance Committee on Oct. 6 that new monitoring and tax‑administration software from Avenue/Numo will begin short‑term rental enforcement and lodging‑tax collection, with the short‑term rental module targeted to go live Nov. 10 and about 250 properties identified as potentially noncompliant.
The Santa Fe Finance Committee heard on Oct. 6 that the city has completed data transfers and initial scrubbing for new short‑term rental (STR) enforcement and lodgers‑tax software and will begin compliance outreach in the coming weeks.
Assistant Land Use Director Maggie Moore told the committee the city and its consultant team at Avenue (recently merged into a company called Numo) have identified roughly 250 potentially noncompliant properties from scraped listings on more than 80 advertising sites. "We've identified about 250 noncompliant properties, and we're going to be issuing compliance letters to those properties in the coming weeks," Moore said. The short‑term rental component of the software is on track, Moore and the vendor said, to go live on or around Nov. 10.
Why it matters: city officials said the tool will let staff monitor listings in near real time, target enforcement where listings appear, and improve collection of lodgers tax revenue that the city says is currently underreported. Officials also said public access to a map of licensed and registered short‑term rentals will…
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