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Baltimore set to vote on banning new short-term rentals in the city
Reading Time: 2 minutesBaltimore: Baltimore city council is set to approve a short-term rental ordinance which would ban new short-term rentals in the city. Bill 18-0189 limits licences for current short-term rental owners to one primary residence and one secondary dwelling, which must be purchased and have hosted a reservation prior to 31 December. The licences will not […]
Calls for restrictions on Airbnb rental properties in Newcastle
Reading Time: 2 minutesUnited Kingdom: Calls have been made for new restrictions on Airbnb in Newcastle, amid fears homes being rented out will stop more people living in the city centre. Concerns have been raised that bringing some of the city centre’s vacant office space back into use as housing may not have the desired effect as landlords […]
Jacksonville Airbnb community welcomes record numbers of guests
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJacksonville: Airbnb has announced its host community in Jacksonville welcomed a record 1,600 guests and earned a combined $300,000 over the weekend. This coincided with Saturday’s American college football match between Florida and Georgia, which has long been hyped as a noteworthy sporting rivalry. Airbnb reported that the weekend’s festivities meant Jacksonville was one of […]
Short-term rentals risk partial bans under Measure T proposal in South Lake Tahoe
Reading Time: 2 minutesSacramento: The fate of short-term vacation rentals in South Lake Tahoe is on the ballot at an upcoming election, and the issue is dividing the community. South Lake Tahoe is the lake’s only incorporated city with roughly 22,000 permanent residents, but during peak tourist periods the population can rise to nearly five times that size. […]
Criton launches Pip travel app for self-catering properties
Reading Time: 5 minutesUnited Kingdom: Criton has announced the launch of Pip, a travel app created specifically for self-catering properties. With Pip, self-catering accommodation providers – such as holiday homes, cottages, lodges, Airbnbs, villas and apartments – will be able to create a personal connection with guests and ensure they have the best possible stay. It will also […]
Airbnb criticises apparent ‘cut and paste job’ short-term letting regulations
Reading Time: 2 minutesIreland: Airbnb has claimed measures to regulate short-term lettings and home-sharing sites appear to be ‘a cut and paste job’ from regulations in other cities. Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy announced regulations for short-term lettings on Thursday that are due to come into force in June 2019. Under the new restrictions, owners of buy-to-let properties […]
Expedia Group acquires Pillow and ApartmentJet to help list apartments online
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWorldwide: Expedia Group has acquired two companies that make it easier to list apartments on short-term rental sites like Airbnb or its subsidiary HomeAway. Expedia said on Thursday that it had acquired San Francisco-based Pillow and Chicago-based ApartmentJet. The former offers a software solution that allows building owners and managers to authorise renters to list […]
Israel Hotel Association blames Airbnb for declines in hotel occupancy
Reading Time: 2 minutesIsrael: The number of hotel overnight stays by foreign tourists in September went down from last year according to the Israel Hotel Association. The trade group coupled the release of the figures with a complaint about unregulated competition from private rentals through online services such as Airbnb. Foreign tourists spent 658,000 hotel nights in Israel […]
Cyprus hotel construction boom pushes government to rein in short-term rentals
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCyprus: With hotel construction booming in Cyprus, more and more visitors to the country are turning to short-term rentals such as Airbnb, which the government wants to rein in. Cyprus has experienced consecutive years of record numbers of tourists which led to the country reversing an economic crisis in 2013, when the government was forced […]
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 […]