Airbnb started nine years ago as an ingenious online meeting place, enabling homeowners to rent out rooms to holidaymakers and other visitors…

Airbnb has been left tending its wounds after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law imposing steep fines for listing short-term rentals of host-free apartments. Airbnb is now taking the fight to court to keep its largest market afloat…

Spy cameras found inside a Las Vegas Airbnb recording naked guests has put such hidden cameras in the spotlight…

Everyone knew Airbnb would fight the legislation banning New Yorkers from advertising short-term rentals of their homes on the site if it was enacted, especially since they explicitly said they’d sue New York State if Governor Cuomo signed the bill. Now, AirBnB has lawyered up and is suing Mayor Bill de Blasio, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the […]

A bill signed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday that penalizes some Airbnb users with steep fines reverberated this weekend around New York City, where thousands of Airbnb hosts could be breaking the new law…

Tuscaloosa city officials are moving forward with a crackdown on short-term rentals of homes across the city….

A London Airbnb host returned from a holiday abroad to find guests had raided her flat and stolen £5,000 worth of electronics….

Join panellists Tom Slee, Vicki Trottier, Steven Tufts and Kristyn Wong-Tam as they critically address the impact of short-term rentals or “ghost hotels” in Toronto. Panellists will discuss how platforms facilitating short-term rentals, such as Airbnb, affect housing affordability, decent work in the hospitality sector and residential living in the city. The panel will also […]

A Toronto group pushing for the regulation of short-term, Airbnb-style rentals is welcoming a city staff proposal to evaluate the impacts of the rentals and consider what kind of restrictions should be imposed on the booming business…

There are plenty of anecdotal complaints suggesting that Airbnb is now so popular it is distorting property markets and contributing to higher rents. US Senator Elizabeth Warren and other officials want the US government to monitor Airbnb to monitor revenue and prices, to track this issue…