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Draft ordinance would restrict short-term rentals to commercial areas in Florida parish
Reading Time: 2 minutesFlorida: Short-term rentals are set to prohibited in residential-zoned areas of unincorporated St Tammany Parish under a proposed ordinance to be put before the parish council. The ordinance says each short-term rental would be on the hook for a $1,000 annual licence fee from the parish and the money collected would help to finance the […]
San Diego city council votes to rescind short-term rental ordinance
Reading Time: 2 minutesSan Diego: San Diego city council has voted 8-1 in favour of rescinding regulations on short-term rentals in its latest council meeting. The council voted 6-2 in favour of rules to regulate short-term vacation rentals in San Diego in August, which would have come into effect in July 2019. The regulations limited the rentals to […]
Barcelona Airbnb host reportedly manages short-term rentals ‘worth £33,000 a day’
Reading Time: 2 minutesBarcelona: A data organisation has found an Airbnb host in Barcelona manages 204 apartments worth €37,721 (£33,369) a day in rental income during the high season. The report by DataHippo, which was commissioned to analyse the tourist apartment industry in Barcelona, revealed the ten biggest hosts in the Spanish city manage 996 apartments between them, […]
Porto opts not to follow Lisbon’s lead in suspending short-term rental licences
Reading Time: 2 minutesPorto: The mayor of Porto, one of Portugal’s largest cities, said in a council meeting the city would not follow Lisbon’s plans to suspend licences for short-term rentals. The situation in the Portuguese capital has persuaded the local government to propose adopting such measures, in which the growing use of short-term rentals by tourists has […]
The Collective to make New York history by opening $450 million co-living space
Reading Time: 2 minutesBrooklyn: British company, ‘The Collective’, is set to make shared-living space history in New York City by opening a $450 million co-living space in Brooklyn. The Collective last week purchased a site at 555 Broadway, on the border of Williamsburg and Bushwick, for the 350,000-square-foot development, which will be the biggest ever space devoted exclusively […]