Two Airbnb hosts — one who was renting out a Trump Tower apartment and another who listed her affordable housing co-op for $446 a night — have coughed up $1,000 each in fines under a law banning listings for short-term rentals, according to the city…

Party-loving holidaymakers in places like Prague, Barcelona and Amsterdam put locals off living in city centres…

Vancouver is preparing to impose more restrictions on Airbnb Inc. and other short-term rental operators as Canada’s priciest housing market seeks to ease its near-zero supply of homes to let…

Residents of the Plateau Mont Royal are getting fed up with Airbnb renters…

AIRBNB IS TRYING to change the narrative. For so long, the nearly nine-year-old home-sharing platform pushed for growth by barging into new markets and new cities around the world, regulations be damned. So the news that the company agreed this week to settle its lawsuit against the City of San Francisco seems jarring. Has Airbnb […]

On Monday, journalist Nathaniel Friedman unleashed a tweetstorm about his girlfriend’s bad experience as an Airbnb guest. She and two other friends needed a place to stay at the last minute, and all the local hotels were booked, in Friedman’s retelling. Since they were desperate, they looked past the bad reviews and rented “what was […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Ending a nearly yearlong legal battle, Airbnb and San Francisco announced a settlement Monday that requires Airbnb to play a bigger role in enforcing the city’s short-term rental laws…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Airbnb is launching a new effort to roll back restrictions in New York state that are among the toughest rules for short-term rentals in the nation…

If you are in Kensington Market this weekend and you see a procession of people dressed as black-clad mourners or ghosts, carrying a lifeless body and accompanied by a three-piece band playing a dirge, you’ll probably chalk it up to the eccentricity of the neighbourhood. It’s Kensington. Those nuts are always up to something. That’s […]

Montreal landlord Gerry Galiatsatos is joining a growing chorus of voices who say that Quebec’s law to regulate online home-sharing services such as Airbnb “is clearly not working.”…