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Airbnb co-founder Gebbia launches Samara Backyard product
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia has launched the inaugural product from his latest venture Samara – Backyard – which is adding small homes to people’s backyards.
iTrip Vacations launches new franchise in California
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Short-term rental franchise brand iTrip Vacations is expanding its services in California with the launch of iTrip Vacations Temecula.
AvantStay accelerates growth and US market expansion
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Premier next-generation hospitality platform AvantStay is maintaining its rapid growth and market expansion strategy by adding a large portfolio of homes in Oahu, Hawaii; Joshua Tree, California; Charleston and Hilton Head, South Carolina; Vail, Colorado; and Smoky Mountains, Tennessee. The property additions brings AvantStay’s portfolio to more than 600 homes in the United States, […]
California court rules short-term rental ban unenforceable
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: California Superior Court judge James Chalfant ruled that the city of Manhattan Beach’s attempt to ban short-term rentals was unenforceable. The judgement claimed that the ban was in violation of the California Coastal Act, and that rentals can return to the city effective immediately. The city passed two distinct measures to limit rentals in […]
AvantStay adds Cavallo Ranch to rental portfolio
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Short-term rental and hospitality startup, AvantStay, has added a 20-acre estate in La Quinta, California – Cavallo Ranch – to its rental portfolio. Described as an “experiential desert escape in the heart of the Coachella Valley”, Cavallo Ranch is AvantStay’s newest premier property. According to the company, the secluded estate is ideal for company offsites, […]
California desert vacation rentals see pandemic boom
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: The California desert regions, home to the Coachella Valley and Palm Springs, are seeing a rise in vacation rental visitors, despite the fact that hotels have remained open. Like much of the American market, many of the new bookings come from families in urban locations looking to escape to non-urban, rural destinations. According to data […]
Airbnb expands Silicon Valley office presence
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: With major plans to go public in 2020, short-term rental platform Airbnb has acquired a 300,000 square foot office lease in Santa Clara. The lease, which takes up two major office buildings, will allow the tech firm to expand its hiring and operations in expectation of that offering. The San Francisco company’s current secondary […]
San Leandro accepting registrations for rental operators
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Officials in San Leandro, northern California, are accepting registrations for short-term rental operators to legalise hosted rentals. The San Leandro City Council recently approved ordinances to regulate short-term rentals in San Leandro by establishing requirements for hosted short-term rentals and banning non-hosted rentals, which are short-term rentals of homes to paid guests when a […]
Anger at short-term rental conversion in California
Reading Time: 2 minutesCalifornia: Long-term rentals are being converted into short-term rentals rather than providing housing for long-term renters for which the building is zoned in Venice, California. Previously, more than 58 apartments in the Ellison Building in Venice were specifically aimed at accommodating the long-term rental segment but now just ten tenants remain in the building with […]
New Zealand ministers team up with Airbnb to help disaster victims
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew Zealand: New Zealand’s civil defence ministry has linked up with Airbnb to help hosts make their homes available to people who may have been displaced due to a disaster. Airbnb app users will also be able to receive emergency messages regardless of whether they are hosts and guests. The former Australian minister of foreign […]