Airbnb and other home-sharing startups may be eating the hotel industry from the inside out, but as the number of people staying in strangers’ houses rises, so too does the security threat the whole industry poses…

Lynne Randazzo rents out half of her Parkridge duplex on Airbnb nearly every day of the year. It’s a business that serves as her family’s primary source of income — even though she’s not allowed by law to operate it in Knoxville…

Residents of a Cabbagetown neighbourhood say they’re besieged by short-term rentals and are demanding the city take action…

Area near Sherbourne and Wellesley is among the worst cases of ‘ghost hotels’ taking over a neighbourhood, says coalition, but owner of five houses refers to them as ‘executive properties.’…

Airbnb has built a hotel. Of course, the company isn’t calling it anything as crude as that…

Airbnb guests allegedly stole thousands in electronics, jewelry and clothes from their hosts in two separate locations in Williamsburg, including one apartment that experienced a burglary earlier this year, according to the police…

A warning anyone for who’s ever advertised their home on the rental sharing website Airbnb. Police in Bellevue are now investigating a bizarre theft in which thieves cleaned out a house, stealing everything from jewelry to clothing and even cleaning supplies….

A Montreal judge has made a decision that could make local tenants think twice before renting out their pad to tourists…

After she visited Toronto in April 2014, the Airbnb host wrote, “Very clean tenants. The apartment was in an amazing condition! Highly would recommend them to other hosts.”…

Kelowna is tackling the regulation of short-term vacation rentals like Airbnb to ensure fairness for local hotels and a better experience for tourists. The city says it’s concerned that, with no regulation, the providers of these short-term rentals have no standard to be held to…