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Gebbia to donate $15m to support LA wildfire survivors
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia has said that he plans to donate $15 million worth of factory-built dwellings to support survivors of the recent Los Angeles wildfires.
Airbnb.org and 211 LA support residents amid Los Angeles wildfires
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Airbnb.org is working with community hub and non-profit organisation, 211 LA, to offer free, temporary housing to residents in Los Angeles County who have been displaced from their homes or forced to evacuate by this week’s wildfires.
Vrbo to unveil “A Place for Together” ad campaign at Super Bowl
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Expedia Group vacation rental brand Vrbo has unveiled the first look at “A Place for Together™”, a new 60-second advert that will debut during Sunday’s Super Bowl LVI.
Bookings surge in Los Angeles and Inglewood for 2022 Super Bowl
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Los Angeles and Inglewood are reporting significant short-term rental booking surges ahead of this weekend’s Super Bowl LVI.
Anyplace launches Anyplace Select to facilitate remote working
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Flexible housing marketplace Anyplace has launched Anyplace Select, apartments designed specifically for remote workers that include a fully-equipped office and gigabit internet in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City. Due to the pandemic, remote work has become more normalised, allowing people to experience the work-from-anywhere lifestyle without having to quit their jobs. […]
Cabana launches new offerings and expands to Los Angeles
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Seattle-based camper van and caravan rental startup, Cabana, which wants to reinvent how people travel through its fleet of luxe mobile hotels, is rolling out enhanced offerings to its customers in Seattle and soon to its newest market, Los Angeles. The new features include concierge services to provide trip planning assistance for customers; van […]
Airbnb removes 50 Los Angeles listings from its platform
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Airbnb has confirmed it has suspended or removed more than 50 property listings based in Los Angeles County from its platform with immediate effect, a week after issuing a global ban on parties in its properties and capping guests that can occupy one at 16 people. The affected properties have been sanctioned for […]
Online listings “breaking” Los Angeles short-term rental rules
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Thousands of online rental listings are allegedly breaking Los Angeles short-term rental laws, according to a report in The LA Times. The city introduced restrictions last year, limiting home-sharing to a person’s primary residence and limiting bookings to 120 days a year, hoping to reduce the impact on housing stock. However, thousands of properties […]
Landing launches in five more cities in the United States
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: San Francisco-based short-term rental company Landing, which offers a membership model that aims to add greater flexibility to renting, is launching in five further cities across the United States. Launching in Nashville, Austin, New York, Los Angeles and Birmingham [US], Landing allows members to lease fully-furnished, luxury apartments in “seriously elevated urban villages”. It […]
Los Angeles restrictions on vacation rentals brought in to effect
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: New restrictions on short-term rentals in Los Angeles were introduced this week. The measures have been “driven by complaints that an explosion of short-term rentals has turned apartment buildings into hotels and pinched the city’s already tight housing supply”. In a 2017 report, the city’s planning department said between 6,000 to 10,000 units that […]