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Westchester County · New York

Short-term rental rules in Westchester County, NY

Short-term-rental rules in Westchester County are set municipality by municipality. Below are plain-English, source-cited summaries for its towns, grouped by status. Palisade Stays is a Northern New Jersey and Lower Hudson Valley operator, and we can confirm your specific town's current ordinance with you from primary sources. Tell us your address and we will run it down.

Researched and reviewed by Jake Lee, Founder of Palisade StaysCurrent as of July 2026How this atlas is maintained

The operator's read

Can I run a short-term rental in Westchester County, NY?

Closed in most towns

New York is a home-rule state, so there is no county-wide answer: the town decides. Of Westchester County's 45 confirmed towns, seven allow nightly stays outright or with conditions, 16%. That puts it ninth of the 10 counties we map, where that share runs from 10% to 83%.

Which Westchester County towns are the easiest to start in?
Mount Kisco: this is the one open town whose record names no cap, no ceiling on rental nights and no owner-occupancy rule. That leaves the paperwork and the operating standard, not the permission.
What closes the rest of Westchester County?
38 of the 45 confirmed towns are closed to nightly stays: 23 effectively prohibit them and 15 restrict them heavily. The second group is the one worth reading closely, because a restriction is a line you can plan around and a ban is not.
What do the open towns in Westchester County require?
Across the seven open towns, all of them record a permit or registration step, three record a cap or quota on permits and five record an owner-occupancy or primary-residence rule. None of them records a ceiling on rental nights. In one of them the capped route is already full, so the way in is the uncapped permit class or a longer stay. These are tallies of the sourced town records below, not a reading of New York law. The town pages carry the wording.

What would you do with a property in Westchester County?

Underwrite the town, never the county. Westchester County is mostly closed to nightly stays, so a search that starts with the house and checks the ordinance afterwards will waste months. Start from the seven open towns, and where the address is already fixed, the compliant play is usually a furnished rental of 30 nights or more, which most ordinances of this kind leave alone and which we can set up and run.

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How short-term rentals are regulated in New York

  • New York regulates short-term rentals through a mix of state law and local home rule. Towns, villages, and cities set their own ordinances or zoning limits, so rules can vary widely within a single county.
  • New York applies state sales and occupancy taxes to short stays, and some counties add a local occupancy tax; collection is often handled by the booking platform.
  • Local controls commonly include permits or registration, primary-residence requirements, and zoning restrictions on where short-term use is allowed. Confirm the current rule with the specific municipality.

This is a plain-English summary for owners, reviewed periodically, not legal advice. Ordinances change; confirm the current rule with the municipality (and, where needed, a qualified professional) before you list. Palisade can help you verify.