FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fairbnb Coalition: majority of Airbnb’s Revenue is generated by commercial hosts (TORONTO) Today, Canada’s national coalition pushing for fair rules for short-term rentals is releasing some interim figures (see appendix) on Airbnb’s business in Toronto. These figures are being made public prior to the release of the coalition’s white paper, which presents […]

Facing an explosion of residents renting on Airbnb, Mississauga is looking to possibly regulate the short-term rental market…

CHICAGO — At least 91,000 of Chicago’s apartment and condo units, about 7.6 percent of all housing units in Chicago, are on the city’s list of places that cannot host guests through home-sharing services like Airbnb. The city recently made public a list of 940 buildings across Chicago that have submitted documents to the city to formally exclude short-term […]

Councillors in Richmond, B.C., have voted to prohibit short-term rentals such as Airbnb, despite approving a plan less than a week earlier that would have regulated and legalized such services…

Airbnb regulations Airbnb—one of those things people love in other cities, but not so much in their own—currently operates virtually unfettered in Toronto, leading to countless stories of trashed homes, annoyed neighbours, and spiking rents. All that may change after the city’s licensing bureaucrats make their recommendations for new Airbnb regulations later in the year…

When French authorities published new population figures for Paris last week, showing a drop of nearly 14,000 residents, politicians and bureaucrats were quick to identify the cause…

When you book an Airbnb room in London, around a third of the $100 saving you make over the price of an average hotel room is due to tax advantages that favour Airbnb’s business model, according to research by the Financial Times…

From Rosedale “party houses” with bouncers at the door to drug-dealing “mobile units of criminal activity,” Toronto Coun. Kristyn Wong-Tam has heard countless complaints about Toronto’s burgeoning short-term rental industry…

At the beginning of 2016, the heady progress of Silicon Valley’s most high-profile start-ups seemed unstoppable. In January, Uber was busy providing helicopter rides to the Sundance film festival and expanding its food delivery service across the US. Meanwhile, Airbnb dispatched its policy chief to woo US mayors with the promise of millions of dollars […]

Two Toronto homeowners have been charged with allegedly making their properties available for short-term rental online and could face fines up to $25,000 if convicted…