He oversees the Clarion Resort Fontainebleau in Ocean City, which parlays its 40,000-square-foot conference center and beachfront location into a brisk business of booking. And he also does just fine with the 84 units he manages next door at the Marigot Beach condominium. But Elman isn’t quite so accommodating with websites like Airbnb. Many of the people […]

Airbnb has agreed to collect Vermont rooms and meals tax on behalf of people who list their property for rent through the online service…

MONTREAL — Quebec is often held up as a model for other provinces to follow when it comes to regulating the growing home-sharing market, but doubts are being raised over whether recent provincial changes are having any impact…

The Greek government will impose a tax on home owners who rent out their properties through short-term rental websites like Airbnb. Owners will have to register their properties with the government before advertising them on the Internet…

The issue of taxing the earnings of unofficial holiday accommodation such as homes and apartments in Greece is, along with the taxation of undeclared funds deposited abroad, a key matter in talks between the Finance Ministry and the representatives of the country’s creditors…

SAN FRANCISCO — As cities around the country attempt to regulate the growing home-sharing industry, Airbnb is going on the offensive with a barrage of lawsuits intended to kill local rules it doesn’t like…

An investigation by The Times has found that the company is building a fake grassroots campaign to target key politicians. One executive even boasted about how the company had successfully won over the mayor of London….

first realised I was living next door to a weekend sublet two years ago. Late one Saturday night I heard boys yelling and loud music, and the thumping against the walls was so hard one of my picture frames fell off and cracked on the floor. I presumed the neighbours had a teenager who was […]

One of the sticking points in Tennessee’s struggle with Airbnbs and other short-term rentals is a question of how to define them. Are they part of the so-called “sharing economy,” or a new wave of commercial businesses?…

Housing Action for Local Taxpayers is a new advocacy group pushing to solve Metro Vancouver’s long-standing housing problem — and it appears to be attracting people ready to mobilize on the streets…