Galveston Airbnb & short-term-rental permit leads

Galveston permit records in numbers

No phone or email is published for the 2,713 Galveston records. Each one names the owner or business and gives the property address. 2,153 records add a separate mailing address, which is where an absentee owner gets mail.

On the tax roll the Galveston permits break down as 2,412 filed under NAICS 531110, lessors of residential buildings (89%), 23 under 531311, residential property managers and 260 hotel or motel permits (721110 and 721120) that an export can filter out.

Galveston filings span April 1, 1993 to October 10, 2026; the peak, 454 records, came in 2022. 2026 stood at 162 by the newest record, 2025 at 162 for the full year. 187 Galveston records were filed in the last 12 months, 7% of the file. The newest Galveston record arrived on October 18, 2026; 20 arrived in the last 30 days.

92 names appear on two or more different Galveston property addresses; together they cover 1,960 records (72%), and the largest holds 601 addresses. 1,416 of the 7-ZIP spread sit in 77554.

Galveston short-term rental rules

Galveston requires every property used as a short-term rental to have a Galveston Vacation Rental (GVR) number, and every listing has to carry that number.

Source: City of Galveston, read on October 22, 2026.

Texas requires state hotel occupancy tax to be collected and sent to the Comptroller for every short-term rental. Hotels, motels and bed and breakfasts are taxed, and so are condominiums, apartments and houses rented for under 30 consecutive days.

Source: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, read on October 22, 2026.

Galveston filings by month

The last twelve full months (Oct 2025 to Sep 2026) carry 183 dated Galveston filings. The same months a year earlier carried 155, so the pace is up 18%.

For Galveston, the busiest month in the window was April 2026 with 45, the twelve-month average is 15.2 a month and the slowest was September 2026 with 3.

Filings bunch up in spring (March to May): 85 of the last twelve months' 183 (46%).

October 2026 so far: 10 dated filings, a partial month.

Since Texas hotel occupancy tax permits (statewide) was first copied on July 6, 2026, 64 records have been added for Galveston: 24 in July 2026, 8 in August 2026, 20 in September 2026 and 12 in October 2026.

The most recent Galveston addition reached the database on October 18, 2026.

Galveston permit status

No status column is filled for most Galveston records (0 of 2,713 carry one), so how current a Galveston record is has to be judged from its filing and first-seen dates.

What a Galveston list contains

All 2,713 Galveston rows have business name, property address, ZIP code and permit or licence number. Partly filled: owner name on 2,153 (79%), separate mailing address on 2,153 (79%), permit type on 2,712 (all but 1) and filing date on 2,709 (all but 4). Not published for Galveston: phone, email and status. Counted by channel, 2,713 mailed. Where a separate mailing address exists (2,153 rows), send the letter there: it is where the owner reads mail, which is often not the rental.

One ZIP code, 77554, holds 1,416 of the 2,713 Galveston records with a ZIP; 2 of the 7 ZIP codes cover four in five.

The Galveston short-term rental program

Galveston has required short-term rentals to register since Ordinance 15-012 in 2015. [1] Each rentable unit in Galveston needs its own registration number. [2] Galveston's registration fee is $250 for new registrations and renewals. [3] Galveston registrations renew each calendar year between December 1 and December 31. [2]

Galveston hotel occupancy tax reports are due by the 20th of the month after the reporting period. [2] Since August 2021 a Galveston ordinance has required Airbnb and Vrbo to collect and pay the local hotel occupancy tax on their bookings. [2] Galveston runs a public search portal (str-public-portal.deckard.com/cityofgalveston) that shows whether an address is a registered short-term rental. [4] City Council moved short-term rental registration and hotel occupancy tax collection from the Park Board to the City of Galveston. [1]