Renting or Hosting in Rome: the 48-Hour Police Notification Requirement

In a nutshell

If you rent out your home, host a non-EU relative, or manage a flat on Airbnb, Italian law requires you to notify the police within 48 hours of the guest's arrival. You do it for free online via the Alloggiati Web portal, in under 10 minutes, without setting foot in a police station.

At a glance

Cost	Free. No revenue stamp required.
Deadline	Within 48 hours of the start of the stay (24 hours for accommodation businesses)
Where in Rome	Online at alloggiatiweb.poliziadistato.it or at your local police station
Documents	SPID or CIE, guest's ID document, property address

Two separate legal obligations, one single procedure

Two different laws create this duty, but in practice you fulfil both through the same process.

The cessione di fabbricato (property transfer notification, Law 191/1978 art. 12) applies whenever anyone — Italian, EU, or non-EU — transfers the use of a property for periods exceeding one month. So if you rent or lend your home for more than 30 days, you must notify the authorities.

The dichiarazione di ospitalità (hospitality declaration, Legislative Decree 286/1998 art. 7) is triggered whenever you host a non-EU citizen, even for a single night and even free of charge. A relative visiting from Nigeria who stays three nights: that needs to be reported.

In practice, the most common scenarios are:

• Renting to an Italian or EU citizen for more than a month → cessione di fabbricato
• Hosting a non-EU citizen free of charge, even for a few days → dichiarazione di ospitalità
• Running a B&B or short-term rental on Airbnb → Alloggiati Web as an accommodation operator, within 24 hours per guest

Who has to notify (always the host, never the guest)

The obligation falls on whoever provides the accommodation: owners, landlords, sub-landlords, lenders (comodanti), and even tenants who in turn host someone. Operators of accommodation businesses — hotels, B&Bs, holiday flats, short-term rental platforms — follow the same logic but have a 24-hour window instead of 48.

You are NOT required to notify if you are hosting an EU citizen free of charge for fewer than 30 days, or if you already manage the Alloggiati Web portal as an accommodation business (that registration covers everything).

How to do it: the online procedure

The easiest way is the Alloggiati Web portal of the Italian State Police, available 24/7.

If you have never registered, you only need to do it once: go to the portal, click "Richiesta credenziali", attach a copy of your ID and proof of ownership or rental rights. Credentials arrive by email within a few days. Alternatively, you can log in directly with SPID (Italy's digital identity for accessing online public services) or CIE (Italian electronic ID card) without any pre-registration.

Once logged in, enter the guest's or tenant's details: full name, document type and number, nationality, start date and expected duration of the stay, and the property address. Confirm, and the system immediately generates a digital receipt. Print it and keep it.

Each new guest or new contract requires a new notification.

When a registered lease is enough (and when it isn't)

There is one useful simplification: if you sign a lease and register it with Agenzia delle Entrate (Italy's tax-revenue agency) within 30 days, that registration automatically satisfies the cessione di fabbricato obligation toward the police.

However, watch out: if your tenant is non-EU, the dichiarazione di ospitalità is still required regardless. So:

• Italian or EU tenant with a registered lease: nothing else needed with the police
• Non-EU tenant with a registered lease: you still need to notify on Alloggiati Web

If you prefer to go in person

You can go to the Commissariato di Pubblica Sicurezza (local police station) covering the area where the property is. Bring the completed form (available on the State Police website or at the station itself) plus a copy of your ID and your guest's. They will return a stamped copy as your receipt.

Alternatively, you can go to the central Questura (police headquarters — also issues residence permits) at Via San Vitale 15 or to the Ufficio Immigrazione (immigration office) at Via Teofilo Patini 23. The full list of Rome police stations is at questure.poliziadistato.it/it/Roma.

Mistakes to avoid

1. Thinking the lease alone always covers you. Registering the lease covers the cessione di fabbricato, but it does NOT cover the dichiarazione di ospitalità for non-EU tenants. Both must be done.
2. Waiting beyond 48 hours. The fine for missing the deadline is €200–€1,000 (cessione di fabbricato) or €160–€1,100 (non-EU hospitality declaration). Even if you are late, notifying late is better than not notifying at all.
3. Paying a private service. The procedure is free and can be done independently in 10 minutes. A Patronato (free union-run assistance office) or a CAF (free assistance office for administrative and benefits paperwork) can help you at no cost if you have trouble with the technology. Watch out for copycat websites: the only official portal has a .poliziadistato.it domain.

Special cases

Running a short-term rental on Airbnb or Booking? Even a single rental is treated as accommodation activity under the portal's rules. You must register as a hospitality operator, notify each guest within 24 hours, and — since 2024 — display the Codice Identificativo Nazionale (CIN) issued by the Ministry of Tourism. Without a CIN, fines can reach €8,000.

Non-EU partner living with you without a lease? File a dichiarazione di ospitalità at the start of the cohabitation. If the situation becomes permanent, consider a registered comodato gratuito (free-of-charge loan-of-use agreement) — useful also for residency registration or family reunification applications.

Subletting to a third party? The sub-landlord carries the same obligation as the main landlord: they must file a cessione di fabbricato notification for their sub-tenant.

Selling your home? The notary's notification of the sale deed satisfies the cessione di fabbricato obligation.

Official sources

• Alloggiati Web portal — Italian State Police
• State Police — Hospitality and presence declarations
• State Police — Hospitality and property transfer notification
• Questura di Roma — Police stations
• Ministry of Tourism — National Identification Code CIN
• Agenzia delle Entrate — Registering lease contracts

Legal references: Legge 18/05/1978 n. 191 art. 12; D.Lgs 25/07/1998 n. 286 art. 7; DL 23/05/2008 n. 92 conv. L. 24/07/2008 n. 125; DM 7/01/2013; DL 18/10/2023 n. 145 conv. L. 191/2023 (CIN).