Anna Maria Island Short-Term Rental Rules for 2026

One island, three cities, three rulebooks. What Anna Maria, Holmes Beach and Bradenton Beach each require from a vacation rental owner in 2026, checked against the cities' own pages and ordinances.

Every city on Anna Maria Island makes you hold its own local permit on top of the Florida vacation rental license. The City of Anna Maria charges $100.20 per allowed guest for an annual registration, and its vacation rental ordinance, as adopted in 2015, caps a rental at eight guests. Holmes Beach charges $780 for a two-year certificate and sets the minimum stay by zoning, and Bradenton Beach requires a city license that is currently valid for one year. All three are in Manatee County, so stays of six months or less carry 13% tax.

The details below come from each city's own vacation rental page or ordinance, the Manatee County Tax Collector and local news coverage, checked on October 19, 2026. Start by confirming which city your address is in, because the rules do not carry over from one to the next. For the short version by area, see our Anna Maria Island rental rules page.

The three cities side by side

City of Anna Maria: registration priced per guest

Anna Maria regulates vacation rentals under Chapter 108 of its code, adopted on November 19, 2015. A new registration cannot be advertised or rented until the home passes a city inspection, per the city's vacation rental page. The application needs your Florida DBPR license, your Florida Department of Revenue certificate, proof of an active account with the Manatee County Tax Collector, an exterior site sketch with each parking space marked, and an interior sketch of every floor.

The fee is per allowed occupant. For April 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027 it is $100.20 per occupant under Resolution R26-828, which works out to $400.80 for a 4-guest rental, $601.20 for 6 and $801.60 for 8. The city counted 720 registered vacation rentals as of February 13, 2026.

• Occupancy: Chapter 108 as adopted caps a vacation rental at eight occupants, with a per-bedroom limit underneath that cap. The city's 2026-27 fee table lists occupancies up to 29, so a registration can allow more than eight. Ask the city how yours is set.
• Quiet hours in the 2015 ordinance run 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. daily, and the city requires a posted welcome book with those rules, which its inspection checks.
• Renewal: the city's April 2026 newsletter says each registration now expires one year from its own inspection date, instead of one citywide date.

Holmes Beach: zoning sets the minimum stay

Holmes Beach requires a Vacation Rental Certificate for every rental property in the city, including condo units, according to its Vacation Rental Certificates page. The city no longer requires a separate rental Business Tax Receipt. The fee schedule is $780 for the initial application (inspections included), $780 to renew every two years, $50 for a first re-inspection, $75 for a second, and $50 to change the authorized agent.

The minimum stay is the rule owners most often get wrong, and it depends on the zoning district:

• R-1 and R-1AA: each stay must last at least 30 consecutive days, and the home can be rented no more than once in any 30-day period.
• R-2, R-3 and R-4: weekly rentals, at least seven consecutive days and no more than once in any seven-day period. Certain grandfathered hotels can still rent by the day.
• A-1: daily rentals are allowed.

The city also posts a searchable list of active vacation rentals, which is a quick way for a guest or a buyer to check that a home is registered.

Bradenton Beach: a city license that is being rewritten

Under Ordinance 17-486, a short-term rental in Bradenton Beach needs three things at all times: a DBPR license, a city Business Tax Receipt and a city Transient Public Lodging Establishment (TPLE) license. The TPLE license is valid for one year. The operator must answer calls about the rental around the clock, respond within one hour and start fixing a problem within four hours, and must provide at least one trash can for every two bedrooms with weekly pickup.

Occupancy is where the city is in motion. The current ordinance ties the guest count to the building's certificate of occupancy or the DBPR license, whichever is less. In September 2026 the city commission held a first reading of an amendment that would switch to two guests per bedroom plus two, so a four-bedroom home would allow 10 overnight guests, as reported by the Anna Maria Island Sun. We could not confirm the final vote on a city page, so ask the city for the number before you advertise one.

State license and the 13% tax

Florida treats a unit as a transient rental when it is rented more than three times a year for less than 30 consecutive days, or advertised that way, under section 509.013 of the state statutes. A vacation rental of that kind needs a DBPR license under section 509.241. Anna Maria and Bradenton Beach both require it for the local permit, and Holmes Beach links to DBPR licensing on its certificate page.

• Manatee County's total rate on stays of six months or less is 13%: a 6% Tourist Development Tax paid to the Manatee County Tax Collector and 7% Florida sales tax paid to the Department of Revenue, per the Manatee County Tax Collector.
• The county says it has no agreement with Airbnb, Vrbo or other platforms to collect the 6% tourist tax for you. The owner or the owner's agent has to collect and remit it.
• On srq.rentals the 13% shows as its own line at checkout. More on how it works on our tourist tax page.

What this means if you are booking

For guests the rules show up as minimum stays and guest counts. Sand Dollar, a 3-bedroom pool home on Anna Maria Island listed on srq.rentals, sleeps eight and has a 7-night minimum. A 7-night stay at its $350 nightly rate comes to $2,904: $2,450 in rent, a $120 cleaning fee and $334 in tax. Browse more homes on our Anna Maria Island vacation rentals page.

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