It’s currently illegal to rent out your home on sites like Airbnb in Vancouver unless you have a hotel or licensed bed and breakfast…

Make them pay — the websites advertising short-term rentals, that is. That’s the solution that a campaign proposes in order to make the City of Vancouver’s regulations around rental sites like Airbnb and VRBO function properly — and actually help the city make a difference in terms of freeing up rental units..

Airbnb touts itself as a service that allows homeowners to earn extra cash by putting their spare bedrooms up for rent to short-term visitors, but according to a new McGill study, the service is having a significant negative impact on the rental market in Canada’s three largest cities….

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…

Toronto is currently receiving feedback on its proposed regulations which would allow short-term rentals for up to three rooms or an entire home for up to 28 days, plus hosts would have to register with the city, pay an annual fee and remit a tourist tax.

Property owners who use Airbnb on a commercial scale are draining the already limited rental housing supply in Vancouver and other major Canadian cities, according to a new study.

A small number of commercial property managers generate a majority of Airbnb’s overall revenue, eating up available housing stock and driving up rent in Canada’s three biggest cities, a new study from Montreal’s McGill University concludes.

Andrew Chapman lives in a nine-unit condo building converted from a boutique hotel in downtown Montreal near the busy Berri-UQAM Metro station, a desirable home in a desirable area of an internationally popular city.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VANCOUVER PROTECTS SECONDARY SUITES FROM BEING USED  AS SHORT-TERM RENTAL SUPPLY   Fairbnb.ca Coalition urges the City of Toronto to follow Vancouver’s lead   Toronto – July 5, 2017 – Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson continued his leadership in protecting the city’s affordable rental housing stock by banning the short-term rental of secondary […]

Toronto’s proposed registration and licensing system for Airbnb-style short-term rentals will proceed to public consultations after Mayor John Tory’s executive committee approved city staff’s draft plan on Monday night…