Airbnb, the online house rental giant might be worth €27 billion but the company only paid €70,000 in tax in France last year, according to reports in the French press…

ANAHEIM – Police are looking for two people in connection with the theft of items from an Anaheim apartment. On July 27, a female rented an apartment on Airbnb, a website that allows people to list, find and rent vacation properties, police said in a statement…

Berlin (AFP) – An attempt by Berlin to clamp down on properties being rented out as holiday homes on internet platforms like Airbnb suffered a setback on Tuesday as a court ruled in landlords’ favour. The administrative court backed the claims of three homeowners, who had sued for the right to rent out their second homes […]

A couple rented out their Lower East Side apartment on Airbnb for the better part of July, and returned to find that more than $5,000 worth of their belongings had been lifted. Cops believe the Airbnb guest stole the goods, including a Louis Vuitton purse, an iPad, and a hair straightener…

Don’t count Equity Residential among the landlords who fervently oppose Airbnb’s controversial business model. A new lawsuit says the real estate investment trust “brazenly” made money by turning its Midtown rental building into an Airbnb-styled hotel…

A luxury West 37th Street building where one-bedroom pads rent for more than $3,700 a month has been turned into an “illegal Airbnb-style hotel’’— with nearly a quarter of its 260 units sublet to tourists, a lawsuit charges…

Shorge Sato is a Chicago attorney who specializes in real estate law and is recognized as a top rated business litigator by Super Lawyers magazine. And even he can’t make sense of the Windy City’s new 58-page ordinance governing home-sharing firms like Airbnb, VRBO and others that the City Council adopted on a 43-7 vote on June 22…

NEW ORLEANS — In the ever controversial fight over short-term rentals, city leaders are considering putting a limit on the number of homes that can be used as rentals. Although it’s illegal, short-term rental rules are rarely enforced. Airbnb reported currently having a little over 3,000 entire home or apartment rentals available in the city…

A Lower East Side couple who rented out their apartment through Airbnb last month found the place ransacked when they got back home, police said. The couple rented out their third-floor Henry St. apartment near Montgomery St. on July 8, and when they came back on July 30, they found more than $5,000 worth of their […]

A California woman is left to deal with a massive cleanup at her home. She says a guest trashed it after renting it out on the popular home sharing website Airbnb. What’s even more shocking is that the she claims evidence suggests the guest who rented her home was a sex worker and was shooting porn…