One day, homes might come with Airbnb rooms built right in. According to a new report from The Information, a tech industry news site, the room rental company is thinking about how to convince home-builders to create properties that have extra rooms included especially for being rented out…

Authorities in Barcelona have stepped up a crackdown on homes illegally rented out to tourists via homesharing websites such as Airbnb  AIRBNB 0.00% , ordering hundreds to be removed from listings and hitting firms with a fine, while threatening more in the future…

Aug 11 Online home-rental marketplace Airbnb paid less than 70,000 euros ($77,000) in taxes in France in 2015, 18 percent less than the previous year, even though Paris is the company’s most popular destination, French newspaper Le Parisien reported on Thursday. Multinational companies can lower tax payments by using subsidiaries in countries where corporate tax rates […]

The Scranton Zoning Board on Wednesday rejected a couple’s appeal to continue renting out rooms at their upscale Green Ridge home through intermediary Airbnb…

Airbnb, the online house rental giant might be worth €27 billion but the company only paid €70,000 in tax in France last year, according to reports in the French press…

ANAHEIM – Police are looking for two people in connection with the theft of items from an Anaheim apartment. On July 27, a female rented an apartment on Airbnb, a website that allows people to list, find and rent vacation properties, police said in a statement…

Berlin (AFP) – An attempt by Berlin to clamp down on properties being rented out as holiday homes on internet platforms like Airbnb suffered a setback on Tuesday as a court ruled in landlords’ favour. The administrative court backed the claims of three homeowners, who had sued for the right to rent out their second homes […]

Shorge Sato is a Chicago attorney who specializes in real estate law and is recognized as a top rated business litigator by Super Lawyers magazine. And even he can’t make sense of the Windy City’s new 58-page ordinance governing home-sharing firms like Airbnb, VRBO and others that the City Council adopted on a 43-7 vote on June 22…

NEW ORLEANS — In the ever controversial fight over short-term rentals, city leaders are considering putting a limit on the number of homes that can be used as rentals. Although it’s illegal, short-term rental rules are rarely enforced. Airbnb reported currently having a little over 3,000 entire home or apartment rentals available in the city…

Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal has doubled-down in her fight to quash illegal hotels – including Airbnb short-term rentals of entire apartments in buildings with three or more units. Her bill would prohibit advertising of such rentals and impose penalties up to $7,500 per violation. The legislation passed in the state assembly and senate. If Governor Cuomo signs […]