Air b and b Whistler: 15 Condo Buildings That Allow Nightly Rentals

Key Takeaways

• The covenant on title decides everything for Air b and b Whistler hosts. A residential-zoned Whistler home cannot be rented to tourists for any length of time, regardless of what the strata permits.
• Fifteen buildings are listed below with their covenant status. Fourteen are confirmed Phase 1 against Tourism Whistler’s published covenant table or a structured realtor zoning field, and Sunpath is corroborated by two independent sources.
• Phase 1 means unlimited owner use and permitted nightly rental. Phase 2 caps owner occupancy at 28 winter nights plus 28 summer nights and places the unit in the strata’s rental pool the rest of the year.
• Phase 1 does not automatically mean you can list on Airbnb yourself. A handful of Phase 1 buildings, including the Hilton Whistler Resort and Tantalus Lodge, carry rental-management agreements that force you to use in-house management.
• Whistler is exempt from British Columbia’s principal residence requirement, so you are not required to live in the unit you rent out.
• Three approvals are needed, not one: permissive zoning, a Resort Municipality of Whistler tourist accommodation business licence at $250 per guest unit, and a provincial registration number displayed on the listing.
• Renting without a licence can draw a municipal ticket of up to $3,000 per day, a penalty the council tripled in May 2024.
• Airbtics estimates Whistler at 64% occupancy, a CA$331 average nightly rate and CA$79,000 in annual revenue per listing across 2,517 active listings for the year to January 2026.

Why a Building’s Paperwork Matters More Than Its View

Plenty of Whistler condos look like perfect short-term rentals. Ski storage, a hot tub, a five-minute walk to the gondola. Then the buyer discovers the title carries a residential covenant, and the whole plan collapses.

Whistler works differently from Vancouver or Toronto. The province largely leaves the resort alone, while the municipality enforces hard. That inverts what most Canadian hosts expect. Reading a provincial headline about short-term rental crackdowns and assuming it applies here will send you in the wrong direction entirely.

Below is a building-by-building look at Whistler properties where nightly rental is permitted, plus the current numbers, the covenant rules, and the approvals every Air b and b Whistler owner needs before a single guest arrives. Every regulatory detail was verified against the Resort Municipality of Whistler and provincial sources in August 2026. All dollar figures are Canadian.

What the Air b and b Whistler Market Actually Earns

Here is something worth knowing before you trust any occupancy figure about this resort. The RMOW tracks occupancy and total room nights on its public performance dashboard, then declines to publish the values. The dashboard states plainly: “For competitive reasons, the specific results of this indicator are not shared. This is why there are no gridlines on the chart.”

That means no official Whistler occupancy rate exists. Every figure in circulation is a third-party estimate, and different providers produce wildly different answers depending on how they draw the market boundary. Rather than averaging them into a number nobody published, the figures below come from a single provider, Airbtics, so the metrics are at least internally consistent.

Whistler Short-Term Rental Performance at a Glance

Metric	Whistler, year to January 2026	Change vs prior year
Average annual revenue per listing	CA$79,000	+28.1%
Occupancy rate	64%	+6.6%
Average daily rate	CA$331	+20.1%
Active Airbnb listings	2,517	+9.9%
Short-term rental yield	12.3%	not stated

Source: Airbtics, Whistler, British Columbia; data period February 2025 to January 2026.

Two caveats belong with those numbers. Airbtics grades Whistler a “B” and notes the market “ranks in the lowest 40% for short-term rental yield nationally,” which sits oddly beside a 28% revenue jump. High nightly rates and high property prices can coexist with mediocre yield, and in Whistler they do. Second, Airbtics does not publish its market boundary or methodology for this page, so treat the listing count as an order of magnitude rather than a census.

Seasonality is the shape that should drive your model

Whistler does not earn evenly, and this is the part a single annual average hides completely. Whistler Blackcomb opened the 2025/26 winter season on Blackcomb Mountain on 21 November 2025, with Whistler Mountain following the week after. Summer operations for 2026 run Whistler Mountain sightseeing from 16 May to 20 September, Blackcomb from 13 June to 7 September, and the Whistler Mountain Bike Park from 15 May to 12 October. Between those windows sit two shoulder periods, late spring and October, when demand thins out sharply.

Two practical consequences. Your strongest revenue months are the deep-winter school-holiday and powder weeks, not an even spread across the ski season. And October is close to dead, which means a full year of fixed costs has to be recovered from a compressed earning window.

The municipal accommodation tax data shows how exposed that curve is to weather. Combined hotel and online accommodation provider revenue subject to Whistler’s accommodation tax fell by $1.3 million year over year in 2024, and the decline hit online accommodation providers harder than hotels, down 13% against 7%, after a below-average snowy winter. Recovery followed in early 2025, when the RMOW reported first-quarter Resort Municipality Initiative and accommodation tax revenue of $6,532,532, or 108% of budget, with accommodation tax revenues up 9.5% year over year on the strength of the online provider share.

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Phase 1, Phase 2 and Residential: The Covenant Controls Your Calendar

Two separate things govern a Whistler property, and confusing them is the most common mistake in guides on this topic.

Zoning determines whether tourists may legally stay in the building at all. It sits in the RMOW’s Zoning and Parking Bylaw No. 303 and is set parcel by parcel. There is no blanket “tourist accommodation zone” covering the resort. Each numbered zone carries its own permitted uses and guest caps, and often frames tourist use as conditional rather than primary. RTA26 is a good example: townhouse and duplex dwellings in that zone may be used for temporary accommodation of no more than two guests per bedroom, to a maximum of eight per dwelling, but only during periods when the dwelling is not occupied for residential use.

Covenants are registered on title and control who may use the unit, when, and who is allowed to rent it out. This is where Phase 1 and Phase 2 live. They are not zoning designations, despite how often real estate copy describes them that way.

Whistler Covenant Types Compared: What Each One Lets You Do 

Designation	Owner use	Nightly rental	Who manages the rental	Tax assessment
Phase 1	Unlimited, any season	Permitted	Usually your choice, but a minority of buildings carry a governing rental-management agreement	Lodging Resort Lot, or Residential Resort Lot outside the Town Centre if the owner declares no more than 14 nights of rental availability per year
Phase 2	28 nights winter plus 28 nights summer, booked in advance	Permitted	No choice, the strata’s single integrated rental pool	Lodging Resort Lot, commercial rates
Residential	Unlimited	Not permitted, 30-day minimum tenancies only	Not applicable	Residential
Employee restricted	Occupant must work 30 or more hours weekly in Whistler	Not permitted	Not applicable	Residential

You will also see properties described as “Town Centre designated.” That is a Tourism Whistler assessment category, meaning the property is assessed as a Lodging Resort Lot at all times regardless of how it is used. It is a tax and member-fee classification, not a rental restriction, and it does not by itself tell you whether you can manage the unit yourself.

Phase 2 is the hotel-condo category: the Westin, Fairmont, Pan Pacific, Adara, Blackcomb Lodge, Sundial, and Four Seasons Resort all sit here. Those units look inexpensive per square foot for good reason. You are buying a revenue share, not a mountain home you can use freely. Watch the brand-name traps: Four Seasons Private Residences is Phase 1, while the Four Seasons Resort is Phase 2, and AlpenGlow sits in the same Village North precinct as several Phase 1 lodges yet is Phase 2 itself.

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15 Whistler Condo Buildings That Allow Nightly Rentals

Every building below permits nightly rental. The final column is the one most guides skip: whether the covenant and strata arrangements let you appoint your own manager or whether you are locked into the building’s in-house program.

#	Building	Address	Area	Unit mix	Ski access	Your choice of manager?
1	Marketplace Lodge	4340 Lorimer Rd	Village North	Studio to 2 bed, many with lock-off	Walk to Village lifts	Yes
2	Whistler Town Plaza (Deer, Bear, Eagle Lodge)	4314 Main St	Village North	Studio to 2 bed	Short walk to gondolas	Yes
3	Market Pavilion	4368 Main St	Village North	Studio to 1.5 bed	Walk to Village lifts	Yes
4	Tyndall Stone Lodge	4338 Main St	Village North	1 to 2.5 bed	Steps to Olympic Plaza	Yes
5	Sunpath	4325 Northlands Blvd	Village North, Stoney Creek	Townhomes	Minutes to both lifts	Yes
6	Telemark	4100 Whistler Way	Whistler Village	3 to 4.5 bed townhomes	Ski-in, Whistler Mtn	Yes, self-managed strata
7	Northern Lights	4150 Tantalus Dr	Whistler Village, Village Gate	3 to 4.5 bed townhomes	Ski-home trail from Whistler	Yes
8	The Hearthstone	4211 Sunshine Place	Whistler Village, Village Square	1 bed, 1 bed plus den, 2 bed	Steps from both gondolas	Yes
9	The Aspens on Blackcomb	4800 Spearhead Dr	Upper Village, Benchlands	1 to 2 bed	Ski-in ski-out, Blackcomb	Yes
10	The Marquise	4809 Spearhead Dr	Blackcomb Benchlands	1 to 3 bed	Near-ski-in	Yes
11	Woodrun Lodge	4910 Spearhead Place	Blackcomb Benchlands	1 to 2 bed	Ski-in ski-out, Blackcomb	Yes
12	Wildwood Lodge	4749 Spearhead Dr	Upper Village, Benchlands	1 to 2 bed plus den	Minutes from Blackcomb base	Yes
13	Glacier Lodge	4573 Chateau Blvd	Upper Village, Benchlands	Studio to 4 bed	Near-ski-in	Yes
14	First Tracks Lodge	2202 Gondola Way	Creekside	1 to 4 bed	Ski-in ski-out, Creekside base	Front desk program in place
15	Le Chamois	4557 Blackcomb Way	Upper Village, Benchlands	1 bed and larger	Ski-in, 120 steps to the gondola	No, governing rental-management agreement

All fifteen carry Phase 1 covenants. Numbers 1 to 4 and 6 to 13 are confirmed against Tourism Whistler’s published covenant table. First Tracks Lodge and Sunpath sit outside that table, which covers Town Centre designated properties only, and were confirmed instead through structured realtor zoning records and cross-checked against two independent Phase 1 indexes.

What the areas mean in practice

Village North buildings 1 to 5 are the walkable, compact end of the market. Small footprints price competitively in shoulder season and turn over fast, which suits couples and solo travellers more than families. Whistler Town Plaza covers Deer, Bear and Eagle Lodge as one mid-1990s complex on Main Street, not three scattered buildings, and several guides wrongly place it in the Upper Village.

Whistler Village proper gives you the shortest walk to both gondolas. Telemark and Northern Lights are the townhome options here, three bedrooms and up, which changes your guest profile entirely toward groups and multi-family bookings. The Hearthstone sits on Village Square with a smaller unit mix.

Upper Village and Blackcomb Benchlands hold the genuine ski-in ski-out inventory. The Aspens, Woodrun, and Le Chamois all put guests on snow directly. Expect a more meaningful winter rate premium and a softer summer than Village properties, since Benchlands guests are there for the mountain rather than the restaurants.

Creekside is the quieter alternative, and First Tracks Lodge is the strongest Phase 1 option at the Creekside base. Lower nightly rates than the Village, but also less competition.
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The two traps in this category

Phase 1 does not always mean you can hire whoever you like. Le Chamois carries a governing rental-management agreement. The Hilton Whistler Resort, which is genuinely Phase 1 on title, goes further: owners must sign a rental management agreement with the hotel, the Hilton retains a large share of rental revenue, and owners pay a percentage of the average room rate to stay in their own unit. Tantalus Lodge similarly requires all rentals to run through the lodge. Those are Phase 1 buildings you cannot list on Airbnb independently, which is why they are flagged here rather than recommended.

Fractional and quarter-share ownership is a different product. Legends and Evolution in Creekside, and parts of Lost Lake Lodge, are Phase 1 but sold as quarter shares. You are buying scheduled weeks, not a unit with a calendar you control. Check the ownership structure before you compare a price to a whole-ownership building.
Aspens on Blackcomb offers the ultimate ski vacation experience with its true ski-in, ski-out location on Blackcomb Mountain. Catering to ski enthusiasts, your Airbnb listing should emphasize the upscale accommodations, heated outdoor pool, multiple hot tubs, and breathtaking views. Don’t forget to mention the easy access to the Upper Village, providing guests with a variety of dining and shopping options.

The Three Approvals Every Airbnb Whistler Host Needs in 2026

Compliance here is a stack. Missing any layer makes the operation illegal even if the other two are perfect.

1. Permissive zoning

The RMOW states that only certain Whistler properties are zoned for tourist accommodation and that “properties with residential zoning and employee housing units cannot be marketed or rented to tourists for any length of time.” Your zoning must explicitly list tourist accommodation or temporary accommodation as a permitted use. Confirm this parcel by parcel before anything else.

2. An RMOW tourist accommodation business licence

The annual fee is $250 per guest unit for tourist accommodation businesses. Hotel businesses pay $190 plus $10 per guest unit, and lodges carry a $125 annual fire safety inspection. A one-time non-refundable application fee also applies. Fee schedules change, so confirm current amounts with the municipality when you apply.

3. A provincial registration number

British Columbia’s short-term rental registry is live and Whistler hosts are not exempt from it. Registration runs $100 annually where the host lives in the unit and $450 where they do not, and the number must appear on the listing with an address that matches the registration exactly. Platforms with 250 or more listings validate these numbers daily through an API, and a failed validation means the platform must stop advertising the listing, block new bookings, and cancel existing ones.

Here is the part that surprises people. Whistler is exempt from BC’s principal residence requirement, appearing on the province’s exempt list both as a municipality and as a ski resort area. You do not have to live in the property you rent. That exemption comes from Whistler’s resort designation and is not something council can trade away through the opt-in process, which the province states is unavailable to resort areas. As of the province’s July 2026 update, the exemption stands.

The exemption applies to the principal residence rule only. Registration, licensing and zoning all still apply in full, and being exempt from one provincial rule is not a licence to skip the other two.

If keeping three layers of compliance current while managing winter turnovers sounds like more than you signed up for, that is precisely what Airbnb management in Whistler is built to handle.

What Non-Compliance Costs

Running an Air b and b Whistler listing outside the rules got considerably more expensive recently, and the municipality enforces actively. The council approved raising the municipal ticket for operating without a licence from $1,000 to $3,000 per day at its May 14, 2024 meeting, and also voted to lobby the province for a $10,000 daily maximum. Bylaw notice penalties remain capped at $500 by provincial limits.

Enforcement volume backs that up. The RMOW issued 91 tickets in 2023 and 61 by mid-2024. Adjudication has gone almost entirely the municipality’s way, with 94% of 2023 disputes decided in RMOW’s favour and 100% in 2024. Unpaid fines now go to a collection agency.

Provincial penalties stack on top. The registry framework provides for administrative monetary penalties, compliance orders enforceable in court, and listing removal. Platform-side penalties start at up to $10,000 per day.

How to Verify a Building Before You Buy

Five steps, in order, before you make an offer on a Whistler condo you intend to rent nightly.

1. Pull the title and read the covenant. This is the only definitive answer on Phase 1 versus Phase 2. Tourism Whistler’s own covenant table carries the footnote that its contents are “subject to verification by reviewing the title of the property in question.” Listing copy is not evidence.
2. Confirm the zone against the bylaw. Get the parcel’s zone designation from the RMOW, then read that zone’s permitted uses and guest caps in Zoning and Parking Bylaw No. 303.
3. Request the strata bylaws and any rental-management agreement. This is where you discover whether you can appoint your own manager. A strata can also restrict short-term rental independently of both zoning and covenant. These documents are not public, so ask the seller.
4. Check the tax class implications. Lodging Resort Lot assessment carries commercial rates. If you plan to rent no more than 14 nights annually from a Phase 1 property outside the Town Centre, a use declaration may keep you in the residential class.
5. Model the season honestly. Build your pro forma around the deep-winter earning window and an empty October, not an annual average. The neighbourhood you choose shifts that curve, and if you are working through the full setup process, our Whistler startup guide covers the operational side.

Whistler rewards owners who do this homework and punishes the ones who assume. The fifteen buildings above are a starting shortlist, not a substitute for a title search.

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