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Paris Airbnb hosts fined more than $1.5 million so far this year
Reading Time: 3 minutesFrance: Officials in Paris have levied more than US$1.5 million of fines on unregistered Airbnb rentals since the start of 2018. Paris was Airbnb’s single-biggest city market worldwide at the end of last year. French regulations forbid residents from renting their property to third parties for more than 120 nights in a year, also requiring […]
Exceptional Villas expands in to new territories
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Vacation rental company Exceptional Villas has announced its expansion in to new markets including Bali, Aruba and Costa Rica. The company has also added 80 luxury homes in The Dominican Republic, 30 properties in Turks and Caicos and 40 villas in the Cayman Islands to its inventory. The combination of these new markets will […]
Airbnb sues NYC over data disclosure law
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Airbnb has filed a lawsuit against New York City, following the passage of a law that requires the company to disclose the names and addresses of hosts. The lawsuit claims the new law is an “extraordinary act of government overreach” and violates the US constitution. The law, which was passed by the City Council […]
Airbnb appoints Ann Mather to board
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Ann Mather has joined Airbnb’s board of directors as its second non-affiliated independent director. A UK national, Mather has experience in financial and risk oversight from her roles as chair of the audit committees of both Alphabet and Netflix. In addition, she served as CFO at Pixar from 1999 to 2004, providing technical financial […]
STRz at Kigoworld 2018: Andrew McConnell, Rented.com
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRented.com CEO Andrew McConnell tells STRz that the “gold rush” of investment in the vacation rental sector is only in its early stages. Filmed at the 2018 KigoWorld conference in Barcelona.