Airbnb paid UK tax of £317,000 last year after its London company handled hundreds of millions of pounds in global rent payments which generated commissions for its Irish HQ…

TORONTO — In a ruling that could have wider implications, an Ontario court has said that condominium corporations have the authority to ban unit owners from renting out their properties on services such as Airbnb or Expedia…

As City Hall gets ready to enforce its new home-sharing regulations, the supply of Airbnb’s most important raw material—homes—is shrinking, and fast…

The official complaint arrived at his front door in May, more than a year after Santa Monica, California, voted to ban the short-term home rentals flooding its small beachside community. Shatford knew the rules but had chosen to ignore them, continuing to list two properties for short stays on Airbnb. He found the city’s ban […]

On May 1, Berlin effectively banned short-stay vacation apartments. In a city where affordable housing is hard to come by, the feeling was that Airbnb and similar platforms were hogging too much space, taking what could be well over 10,000 homes off the regular rental market…

A hard cap of 60 days annually for short-term rentals like Airbnb was approved Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors one vote shy of a veto-proof majority…

While Airbnb and New York City continue to battle it out over new restrictionsthat would penalize hosts with hefty fines for subletting whole apartments for less than 30 days, a California couple says the law — which isn’t currently being enforced — led to a costly and frustrating scenario while visiting the Big Apple…

Toronto has made its first conviction of an Airbnb user, after the company that owns a house where a shooting happened earlier this year pleaded guilty to a zoning bylaw regulation…

Toronto would become the first city in Canada to slap a tax on short-term rentals like Airbnb if Mayor John Tory wins support from council…

Barcelona city council will fine holiday rental websites Airbnb and HomeAway €600,000 (£509,000) each for offering unlicensed accommodation, it has announced, as it steps up its campaign against tourism saturation…