Airbnb could be exacerbating the housing crisis by encouraging landlords to take long-term lets off the market, a report has warned…

THE rise of shared accommodations in the Asia Pacific region poses a threat to the hotel industry as many tourists prefer Airbnb rentals due to lower rates, according to a report by a global real estate advisor…

Australia has welcomed a new food delivery service, FoodByUs, where home cooks – not chefs – are the ones preparing meals. Co-founder, Ben Lipschitz, spoke with Hospitality about the concept’s point of difference, how it ensures food safety, and why it’s the Airbnb of the foodservice industry…

Landlords with buy-to-let mortgages risk breaching their loan terms if they start using their properties for short-term holiday lets through Airbnb instead of renting them out to ordinary tenants, the lending industry has warned…

New hotels are rising in Idaho cities, in some cases for the first time in decades. Meanwhile, another lodging-related issue is also bubbling close to the surface: How to handle Airbnb and other sites that allow homeowners to rent rooms and pay tax on the honor system…

Homelike is one of the leading PropTech companies in Germany, and their goal is to completely digitize the booking process of finding middle-to-long-term corporate housing…

Confessing via PostSecret, the anonymous host claimed to use hidden cameras to take secret sex videos of their guests — and then swap the footage with other sleazy landlords using the property site…

Santa Monica first passed stringent rules governing (and basically eliminating) short term rentals within the city itself in May of 2015. While Santa Monica stopped short of completely banning Airbnb (and Airbnb like services), the city’s legislation makes it basically impossible for “hosts” to lease any sort of property aside from an extra bedroom inside […]

The Israel Tax Authority is targeting homeowners who rent out their properties to tourists, after finding that more than 30 percent of them had not reported their income from short-term leases…

Airbnb sued a third California city Friday, arguing that the beach town of Santa Monica violated federal laws protecting privacy and online speech…