As Newport Beach city officials continue to grapple with regulating the short-term rentals popping up in residential neighborhoods, temporary lodging is also rising to the surface in the form of luxury vessels docked in Newport Harbor….

A common story: An apartment tenant has a few short trips coming up, and decides to list their abode on home-sharing service Airbnb to turns those few days away into a few extra bucks. Meanwhile, the tenant’s landlord has no idea when and how this is happening, and has real way to keep tabs on […]

Airbnb is teaming up with landlords in an effort to make peace with one of the home-sharing service’s biggest critics…

An African American woman from Washington is suing Austin-based Homeaway and VRBO after she says the homeowner cancelled her request once she provided personal information, specifically her race…

Yvette Hobzek, a Seattle-area real estate broker, filed suit against vacation rental company HomeAway on Monday, alleging racial discrimination…

Researchers from Harvard Business School have found that people with names that sound African-American are 16 percent less likely to get a positive response to a room request than people with white-sounding names. When those results were first published last year, Airbnb’s head of diversity, David King, said that the company faced “significant challenges” to overcome the […]

(CNN)I would like to live in a world where Airbnb exists. When traveling, my family of four has outgrown 160 sq. ft. hotel rooms. My husband and I like being able to wake up in the morning and make our kids pancakes or toast a bagel, instead of having to rush downstairs to a pricey […]

Airbnb is a digital marketplace allowing homeowners to list rooms or properties for holiday lets. It claims to list properties in over 190 countries across the world with over 60 million users since its creation. That said, it is has recently come in for criticism from the Residential Landlords Association for ‘compounding the housing crisis’…

In New York City, it’s illegal in many cases to rent out your apartment to travelers. Yet one group of dwellings is widely believed to be exempt from enforcement: one- and two-family homes. WNYC has learned that belief is mistaken: New York City has quietly been invoking decades-old codes to fine private homeowners who use home-sharing […]

If you rent a unit via Airbnb or Homeaway/VRBO in Noe Valley without following the rules, beware…