Airbnb, a marketplace for people to list and rent vacation homes and rooms to stay, was founded in 2008 in San Francisco. Today, there are more than a million listings in more than 30,000 cities around the country. As the service grows in popularity in the state, cities in Iowa including Clear Lake, West Des […]

BOCA RATON, Fla. (CBS12) — Residents in an East Boca neighborhood are turning to CBS12 News for action. They say the city is not enforcing the law when it comes to rental properties…

As America grapples with disruptions wrought by the new “sharing economy” that has seen everyone become a taxi driver for hire and homes become hotels, a Pasadena city committee is addressing the explosion of Airbnb properties in Pasadena…

Share Better SF, a coalition of housing activists, landlords, a hotel union and a hotel trade group opposed to vacation rentals in private homes, is launching a bus-shelter ad campaign on Thursday taking aim at Airbnb for suing its hometown and for not abiding by local laws….

As Airbnb, the $30 billion private accommodation renting portal, continues to mature and very slowly inch its way to an IPO, it is adding more ways to bring in more properties and hosts to its platform…

In an area with an overall rental vacancy rate of only 3.7 percent, some critics worry that a certain type of Airbnb rental is eating up housing that should be available for New Yorkers rather than tourists. (Francis Carr Jr. / The Brooklyn Ink)…

San Francisco is poised to increase registration fees for short-term rental hosts fivefold, to $250 every two years, The Chronicle has learned. Coincidentally, Airbnb, the leading vacation rental company, is mounting an ad campaign in its hometown to buttress its frequent contention that most hosts are regular people making ends meet…

The 60-second commercial opens with Reneia, a Central City Airbnb host, who touts the benefits of additional income generated by renting space in her shotgun home to tourists and how it helps fund her animal rescue efforts….

As Newport Beach city officials continue to grapple with regulating the short-term rentals popping up in residential neighborhoods, temporary lodging is also rising to the surface in the form of luxury vessels docked in Newport Harbor….

A common story: An apartment tenant has a few short trips coming up, and decides to list their abode on home-sharing service Airbnb to turns those few days away into a few extra bucks. Meanwhile, the tenant’s landlord has no idea when and how this is happening, and has real way to keep tabs on […]