Airbnb has removed 130 listings from its site in Vancouver that look as though they belong to commercial operators, according to a recent letter received by the city…

Airbnb’s new policy limiting New York City hosts to just one listing — a bid to put an end to illegal hotel operators using the site — isn’t stopping Big Apple users from advertising multiple units, according to a new analysis…

The issue came up while council considered a re-zoning application for the next phase of the Dockside Green development in Vic West…

A little more than one year ago, the  Boulder City Council passed a new ordinance to govern short-term rentals, such as Airbnb and VRBO, which required that property owners have a license to rent to visitors…

It’s a story enshrined in tech history: in 2007, two entrepreneurs struggling to make rent in pricey San Francisco latched onto a novel idea. A design conference was coming to town and hotels were sold out. The pair decided to throw three air mattresses into their loft, charge $80 per person (breakfast included), and advertise the nightly rentals on […]

New Orleans, nicknamed The Big Easy, has achieved something very hard — it managed to nail down a few rules for the sharing economy…

After years of refusing to help San Francisco craft a mandatory registration system for hosts, Airbnb told the San Francisco Chronicle this week that it will work with the city to do so…

On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors is expected to weigh stringent new limits curtailing short-term rentals in a private home to no more than 60 days a year. Currently people renting rooms to travelers can do so 365 days a year, while whole-home rentals are capped at 90 days. And last week, a federal judge indicated that […]

Outside the brightly decorated lobby of the 32-storey condominium tower at 600 Fleet St. stands artist Douglas Coupland’s statue of a giant British toy soldier standing over a fallen invading Yankee, commemorating the War of 1812. Inside, the building’s security team these days has been dealing with another, more covert invasion: tourists and partiers trying […]

The incident in the Upper Beaches in September is a ‘clear example’ of the need for regulation, says the Fairbnb coalition…