SAN FRANCISCO —As cities around the country attempt to regulate the growing home-sharing industry, Airbnb is going on the offensive with a barrage of lawsuits intended to kill local rules it doesn’t like…

Airbnb says its hosts are “regular people” sharing their homes with guests who get an “authentic” travel experience. But the carefully crafted image of the short-term rental company is anything but authentic, say its critics…

Vancouver’s proposed empty homes tax would include secondary properties being booked on the vacation rental website Airbnb, with the maximum fine for people who evade the levy set at $10,000…

Rhett Johnson, 34, has earned as much as $1,000 a month renting out the living room and its sofa bed in his one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan…

Thousands of flat owners who rent out their homes on websites like Airbnb are likely to be breaking the law, a court has ruled…

By September of an election year, anyone who still has cable is used to an onslaught of political ads sponsored by oil companies, environmental groups, activists, and, of course, candidates. But it’s not typically the approach tech companies use to push their agenda. That’s about to change in Seattle…

MILLIONS of homeowners are at risk of losing of their flats if they rent out their homes on websites like Airbnb following a landmark court ruling…

Airbnb is facing a “mid-six figure” TV advertising attack launched on Tuesday by ShareBetter, a campaign against the rental company…

The special master determined that the 33 cases heard on Monday broke the city’s regulations, and gave the violators 30 days to 120 days to pay more than $105,000 in fines for 13 properties. The special master’s ruling can be appealed to the circuit court, director of Code Compliance Hernan Cardeno told The Real Deal…

Shortly after suffering setbacks as a result of a crackdown initiated by Berlin on illegal rentals in the city, Airbnb once again finds itself in a similar predicament as Barcelona initiates a renewed crackdown of its own for the same purpose…