Airbnb’s popularity is exploding in Australia, and Sydney is its boomtown, but real estate agents say our love affair with the online homestay network is driving up rents…

The Portland City Council’s Housing Committee came one step closer Wednesday to recommending regulations on short-term rentals like Airbnb, including a prohibition against rentals in non-owner occupied single-family homes…

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) – A half-dozen former tenants of a Hollywood neighborhood are suing Airbnb, alleging the online lodging service aided their landlords in ending their tenancies, then re-renting their residences in violation of a municipal ordinance…

In and around Lake Tahoe, housing costs are going through the roof. Of course, that’s the case for all of California — but what makes the situation in Tahoe unique is that the people driving up the cost of local housing don’t actually live there…

Historically there has always been a clear distinction in Nashville between residential and commercial zoning…

The rise of AirBnB across the nation has resulted in property owners cashing in on the lucrative hospitality market – and causing headaches for renters in the process…

In his Sept. 4 Iowa View, Joel Kurtinitis’ research was inaccurate on the Coralville Airbnb situation [Airbnb, EpiPen: How government suffocates innovation]. The hotel association had nothing to do with the City Council’s actions to deny short-term rentals in an R-1 neighborhood (like mine). Our neighbors united to protest noise (police called several times), crime (car broken into last December), […]

A new report shows there’s been a surge in the popularity of Airbnb, despite critics claims that it’s adding to the country’s housing shortage…

With more than 4,200 registered listings in the Vancouver area, Airbnb has been blamed for constricting an already squeaky-tight rental market…

Online home rental sites such as Airbnb might be good for travelers, but many cities complain that they drive up prices and take away housing for residents. Berlin recently banned short-term rentals. Barcelona’s mayor plans to stop people from letting out their homes on websites without a license. Airbnb’s No. 1 destination is Paris. And […]