Soon, you may need to register for a licence if you want to rent out your Vancouver home to vacationers via Airbnb. But whose responsibility will it be to make sure you’re not renting out seven different unlicensed apartments for short-term rentals, removing them from the city’s housing stock in violation of the city’s new […]

The City is holding four open houses to engage residents and obtain feedback on the City’s proposed licensing, registration and zoning framework for short-term rentals. Come out and leave your feedback!  Drop in anytime between 3 and 8 p.m. A short presentation will be held at 4 p.m. and repeated at 7 p.m. Wednesday, September […]

This is a highly informative document for anyone interested to learn about the terms and conditions Airbnb has agreed to in the City of San Francisco. It shows what the company is willing and able to do if there is political will to hold them accountable. Once implemented, Airbnb will have to remove all non-licensed […]

The Urban Politics and Governance Lab (UPGo) at McGill University is proud to announce the release of Short-term cities: Airbnb’s impact on Canadian housing markets. This report is the first comparative analysis of short-term rentals in Canada’s three largest cities: Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. Across these cities there are over 81,000 active Airbnb listings which earned […]

MONTREAL —  New research suggests a small number of large commercial property owners are the most successful on Airbnb and are eating up the local supply of housing in Canada’s three largest cities in the process.

Over the past couple of years, my wife and I have indulged idle daydreams of getting in on the latest investment-real-estate gold rush by going into the “home-sharing” business. I once spent an afternoon looking at condo unit sales prices and doing math about potential daily rates; Rebecca will sometimes say to me, “We should […]

What remains of 38 Kensington Pl. is still accessible through a short alley, in the heart of Kensington Market…

A coalition fighting for new regulations around short-term rental services like AirBnB says proposed city rules up for debate Monday could go further…

The City of Toronto has responded to the explosion of Airbnb-type short-term rentals in a staff report detailing measures to regulate this emerging sector…