Research snapshot · Development · 31 August 2026

Short term rental in New Hampshire: 14 towns on the record, the pace easing

This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Worth tracking for thesis expansion.Our definition of the class, 29 August 2026.

Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 35 dated municipal records flagged as short term rental in New Hampshire, spanning 14 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

The story so far

The record starts in Rindge, 3 September 2024. Since then 14 New Hampshire towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Chesterfield on 20 July 2026.

The last 90 days put 5 meetings on the record, down from 10 in the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Planning Board, Zoning Board of Adjustment and Board Of Selectmen.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTowns
Sep 2025 to Nov 202522
Dec 2025 to Feb 202633
Mar 2026 to May 2026127
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)55

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Mar 2026 to May 2026, with 12 meetings.

The towns on the record14, earliest first

Every New Hampshire town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Rindgeearliest 2024-09-03 · 13 meetings · latest 2026-08-04 · the minutes 2026-08-04 Notice of Public Hearing Planning Board meeting August 4,, 2026-1
Plymouthearliest 2024-11-07 · 1 meeting · latest 2024-11-07 · the document Planning Board — 11-7-24 PB Minutes
Bethlehemearliest 2025-03-21 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-03-21 · the minutes 01 January 8, 2025 Minutes
Merrimackearliest 2025-10-09 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-10-09 · the agenda Town Council Regular Meeting Agenda (PDF)
Candiaearliest 2025-10-28 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-10-28 · the agenda Zoning Board of Adjustment Regular Meeting Agenda (PDF)
Canaanearliest 2026-01-08 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-04-09 · the agenda Planning Board Regular Meeting Agenda
Sanborntonearliest 2026-02-19 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-06-08 · the minutes Minutes — Master Plan Committee
Laconiaearliest 2026-02-23 · 4 meetings · latest 2026-03-16 · the agenda Packet
Meredithearliest 2026-03-12 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-06-11 · the agenda Zoning Board of Adjustment Meeting
Bartlettearliest 2026-03-17 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-03-17 · the minutes Minutes — Planning Board
Bristolearliest 2026-04-02 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-04-08 · the minutes Minutes — Planning Board
Wolfeboroearliest 2026-04-07 · 3 meetings · latest 2026-05-05 · the agenda Planning Board Agenda
Keeneearliest 2026-07-01 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-07-01 · the meeting packet O-2026-09_Ordinance Packet Posted Online
Chesterfieldearliest 2026-07-20 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-07-20 · the minutes Minutes — 2026-07-20

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

4 August 2026 · Rindge Planning Board

the minutes, on the town's own site 2026-08-04 Notice of Public Hearing Planning Board meeting August 4,, 2026-1

20 July 2026 · Chesterfield

the minutes, on the town's own site Minutes — 2026-07-20

1 July 2026 · Keene

the meeting packet, on the town's own site O-2026-09_Ordinance Packet Posted Online

11 June 2026 · Meredith Zoning Board of Adjustment

the agenda, on the town's own site Zoning Board of Adjustment Meeting

Companies on this record97 companies, 30 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
AirbnbBartlett, Keene
AT&TBristol, Rindge
NHDESBethlehem, Rindge
Ashoryn, LLCRindge
David and Amy BjarnasonWolfeboro
Franklin Pierce UniversityRindge
GRAZ Engineering, LLCRindge
Mascoma Community Health CenterCanaan
Mitchell Municipal GroupLaconia
Pierce Camp Birchmont Inc.Wolfeboro
Tapply-Thompson Community CenterBristol
Wolfeboro Child Care CenterWolfeboro
3M CompanyRindge
Advanced Drainage SystemsRindge
AECOMRindge
AES CorporationRindge
Air B&BRindge
AirbnbsRindge
AirgasRindge
Algonquin Power & UtilitiesRindge
Allen & MatthewsonRindge
AmazonRindge
American Water WorksRindge
American Water Works (AWK)Rindge
ArcadisRindge
Arcadis (ARCVF)Rindge
Ashoryn Homes LLCRindge
ATA Real Estate Holdings LLCRindge
Attorney General's officeRindge
Badger Meter (BMI)Rindge

And 67 more companies.

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 36 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

How we can tell you about it ongoing

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Also at this scope: Short term rental across the country. The site's story on this topic: The Housing Density Wave Is Rewriting Municipal Zoning in Real Time. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.

Short term rental, New Hampshire

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

New Hampshire

every topic this state carries

Area

Development

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

14

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

3 September 2024

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

5 against 10 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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