Here’s an odd thing. Airbnb has a new program in Vancouver, offering $250 cash bonus for first-time hosts. It’s odd for two reasons. First, some call it surprising because the company has been under pressure for exacerbating the city’s housing affordability crisis (Vancouver’s housing market is the most expensive in North America). Second, Airbnb in Vancouver is going gangbusters, so why does the […]

Toronto’s waterfront is haunted by “ghost hotels” with a concentration of short-term rental listings in condo towers in the area, according to data from independent website Inside Airbnb…

PARK SLOPE — An Airbnb guest checked into a Park Slope garden apartment and checked out with $650 in valuables, according to a police report…

With more than 4,200 registered listings in the Vancouver area, Airbnb has been blamed for constricting an already squeaky-tight rental market…

SHANDAKEN >> Fireworks being shot off at 3 a.m. and guns being fired have been added to the list of complains about the short-term home rental business in the town of Shandaken…

Montgomery County planners have scheduled a Sept. 19 meeting for community members to ask questions and to offer their thoughts on proposed efforts to regulate short-term rentals that operate over the Internet…

(Aug. 26, 2016) Internet-based short-term rental companies are doing more than competing with the traditional lodging industry, they also are cutting into the revenue that county and local governments receive from hotels, motels and brick-and-mortar rental firms…

Airbnb has strengthened its hold on the rental market by partnering with a major rental listings portal, enabling renters to try an area before they commit to renting there…

While commercial listings on Airbnb make up a tiny sliver of the total units available, they do account for an outsized portion of profits – and that could motivate the controversial startup to focus more on those commercial listings as it grows…

If you thin it’s tough finding a decent rental in Portland now, a new analysis suggests it’s going to get worse. And, if that happens, you might just have Airbnb to thank for it…