Scale’s Exit Door returns to Paris on May 22, and this year it has moved out from under Scale France to stand on its own. The third edition of MPM Consulting‘s confidential meeting for French short-term rental operators is invitation-only, capped at 100 attendees managing at least 10 listings each, and closed to property management software vendors and other technology suppliers.
The programming runs through valuation, what acquirers actually look at, alternatives to selling, and post-exit tax. The signal is hard to miss: the question the French short-term rental market is now asking its operators to answer is no longer how to grow, but what comes next.
The agenda reads like an M&A conference, not an operations one
The programming is four 25-minute sessions, and each one is a capital-markets question rather than an operational one.
- Léonard Draperon of Blue&Bricks opens on the shift from founder-mindset to seller-mindset — seeing your own business through the eyes of someone who might acquire it.
- Antoine Serrurier of Cocoonr follows on what acquirers actually diligence and what they quietly ignore.
- Cristiana Carpini of Tara Home Consulting works through the alternatives to outright selling: partnerships, build-ups, progressive transmission, bringing in an associate.
- Vincent Berger of KPMG closes on the tax architecture operators tend to underestimate, both before the exit and after.
Read together, the sessions describe a specific kind of founder: someone who has already built a professional operation, knows the operational playbook, and is now being asked to think about their business as an asset rather than a job.
The room is curated for buyers, sellers, and the undecided — not for vendors
The format says the rest. The event caps at 100 participants, requires attendees to manage at least 10 listings, and prices tickets in three tiers that double as a rough map of where consolidation pressure sits: Scale (10 to 50 listings) at €49, Growth (50 to 150) at €79, Leader (150-plus) at €129. No technology vendors are invited. MPM’s own phrasing is unambiguous — “zero tickets vendeurs” — meaning property management software companies, data providers, and the rest of the supplier ecosystem that typically fills an industry event floor are deliberately absent.
The sponsor lineup completes the picture:
- Cocoonr, the event’s strategic partner, is one of France’s most active consolidators: it has absorbed concierge businesses in Brittany, eastern France, and Toulouse, and now operates more than 4,500 properties through 20 agencies.
- Interhome — which HomeToGo acquired from the Hotelplan Group for €160 million in a deal that closed in August 2025, and which now sits at the heart of HomeToGo’s B2B segment — sponsors.
- Tara Home Consulting, the French advisory firm whose founder is on the programme, sponsors. Welkeys is the official partner.
The organisations supporting Exit Door are themselves buyers, advisors to buyers, or intermediaries in the buying process. The room has been curated for that conversation, and not for any other.
Regulation pushed professionalization. Professionalization is surfacing the exit question.
None of this is happening in a vacuum. Exit Door opens two days after France’s nationwide registration deadline for short-term rentals takes effect on May 20 — the moment the Loi Le Meur’s registration requirement extends to every commune in France, not just the larger cities it has applied to until now. RSU has covered the Le Meur law and its implications for professional operators at length.
The law has been rewriting the operational floor for French STR for more than a year. Micro-BIC tax allowances have been cut, revenue ceilings tightened, primary-residence rentals capped at 90 nights instead of 120, and DPE requirements have pushed the lowest-rated properties out of the market, with further rounds arriving in 2028 and 2034.
Municipalities have been granted quota powers. Enforcement has sharpened in parallel — French press has documented a €171,000 fine in Marseille in February against an operator with 23 unregistered listings, and a €189,000 case hitting both host and management company in Paris’s 7th arrondissement.
Individually, none of these measures is existential for a professional operator. Together, they have raised the minimum viable operating standard: the cost of compliance, the software investment, the legal and tax advice now required to run a French STR portfolio to professional specification. That raised floor is what sorts the market. Operators who can clear it scale. Operators who cannot become acquisition candidates for the ones who can. Exit Door is the room where that sorting is being talked through.
Whether this is a permanent feature or a moment in the cycle
Exit Door’s two previous editions, held inside the broader Scale France event in 2023 and 2024, were described by MPM as having produced rapprochements and structural decisions, though no specific transactions have been named publicly — a position consistent with the event’s confidential format. What will be worth watching is whether the move to a standalone meeting becomes a permanent feature of the French STR calendar, and whether equivalent events start appearing in the other European markets where professional consolidation is likely to follow.
Spain, Italy, and the DACH region are the obvious next candidates. For now, the room in Paris on May 22 is where the conversation is.
Event details
- Date: Friday, May 22, 2026, 8:30–14:00
- Venue: Morning Bourse, 4 place de la Bourse, 75002 Paris
- Format: Invitation-only, 100 attendees maximum, minimum 10 listings to qualify
- Tickets: Scale (10–50 listings) €49, Growth (50–150) €79, Leader (150+) €129 (all excluding VAT)
- Organiser: MPM Consulting
- Event site: france.scalerentals.show/event/exit-door
Uvika Wahi is the Editor at RSU by PriceLabs, where she leads news coverage and analysis for professional short-term rental managers. She writes on Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, regulations, and industry trends, helping managers make informed business decisions. Uvika also presents at global industry events such as SCALE, VITUR, and Direct Booking Success Summit.
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