Fairbnb.ca Coalition: $10,000 fine shows need for stricter regulations and platform accountability (TORONTO) Today, the Fairbnb.ca Coalition would like to extend our gratitude towards Justice of the Peace Gerry Altobello for imposing a stiff $10,000 fine on a Willowdale home owner who has brazenly violated the city’s zoning by-laws and negatively impacted his neighbours. […]

New York’s ban on short-term rentals has officially started cracking down. As the New York Post reports, a notorious Manhattan landlord and a Brooklyn real estate broker were hit with 17 total violations of the new law. Each violation carries a $1,000 fine…

Since 2015, the vacation rental site, Airbnb, has brought $12 million to Washington, D.C. in hotel taxes. Soon, stricter limits may be set in place for vacation rental sites like Airbnb, thanks to a brand new bill introduced on Tuesday…

DENVER — Short-term vacation site Airbnb will soon collect Colorado state sales tax online, meaning hosts don’t have to act as taxmen…

Nashville’s tourism chief says he supports a moratorium on granting new permits for some short-term rental homes to give time for the city to find better ways to enforce regulations…

Airbnb’s popularity is exploding in Australia, and Sydney is its boomtown, but real estate agents say our love affair with the online homestay network is driving up rents…

Airbnb became profitable in the second half of 2016, and is on pace to sustain profitability through 2017, Bloomberg reports….

District lawmakers will soon introduce legislation that would further restrict how property owners can use home-sharing sites such as Airbnb and VRBO…

Short-term rentals such as Airbnb units would be regulated more like hotels, taxed and subject to inspections, insurance requirements, and registration with the state, under legislation due for introduction Monday by a House leader…