Featured Story
January 11, 2017
From Rosedale “party houses” with bouncers at the door to drug-dealing “mobile units of criminal activity,” Toronto Coun. Kristyn Wong-Tam has heard countless complaints about Toronto’s burgeoning short-term rental industry…
Featured Story
January 11, 2017
At the beginning of 2016, the heady progress of Silicon Valley’s most high-profile start-ups seemed unstoppable. In January, Uber was busy providing helicopter rides to the Sundance film festival and expanding its food delivery service across the US. Meanwhile, Airbnb dispatched its policy chief to woo US mayors with the promise of millions of dollars […]
Featured Story
January 11, 2017
Two Toronto homeowners have been charged with allegedly making their properties available for short-term rental online and could face fines up to $25,000 if convicted…
Horror Stories
January 11, 2017
The breaking point wasn’t the furniture-destroying sex at 3am in the room directly above ours nor the smartphone alarm vibrating into their floor/our ceiling at 5am – instead it was the frustration that our upstairs neighbour and part-time Airbnb host didn’t bother to reply to our text whingeing about the ordeal…
Featured Story
January 11, 2017
Airbnb paid UK tax of £317,000 last year after its London company handled hundreds of millions of pounds in global rent payments which generated commissions for its Irish HQ…
Fairbnb News
January 11, 2017
A new group calling itself AirbnbWatch Florida has emerged declaring its goal as “to bring attention to illegal hotel operations in residential areas” in the Sunshine State…
Fairbnb News
January 11, 2017
AIRBNB has a plan to deal with the problem of money-hungry landlords booting out long-term tenants to cash in on the short-term rental tourist accommodation market…
Featured Story
January 11, 2017
TORONTO — In a ruling that could have wider implications, an Ontario court has said that condominium corporations have the authority to ban unit owners from renting out their properties on services such as Airbnb or Expedia…
Featured Story
January 11, 2017
As City Hall gets ready to enforce its new home-sharing regulations, the supply of Airbnb’s most important raw material—homes—is shrinking, and fast…
Housing Issues
January 11, 2017
In and around Lake Tahoe, housing costs are going through the roof. Of course, that’s the case for all of California — but what makes the situation in Tahoe unique is that the people driving up the cost of local housing don’t actually live there…