Jefferson County, New York, has launched a registry requiring short-term rental hosts to collect and remit the county's occupancy tax, a levy that until now applied only to hotels and motels.
A barrier island community's annual short-term rental meeting put permit compliance and noise complaints back at the top of the agenda for local operators.
The country's tourism minister says new oversight of short-term rentals is about guest safety, not a quiet tax grab on hosts.
Hawaii's transient accommodations tax rises again on January 1, 2026, while Honolulu, Maui, Kauai and Hawaii County keep pulling their permit rules further apart.
A monthly trade briefing links a booking surge in 2026 World Cup host cities to continued licensing pressure on short-term rental operators in Edinburgh and Sydney.
Spain's Supreme Court has struck down the central government's unified short-term rental registration system, putting compliance back in the hands of individual regions.
Canada: Nova Scotia's short-term rental registry, not any new Halifax bylaw, remains the rule that decides whether a listing can legally stay online in 2026.
Licensed holiday let owners in Edinburgh say the city's incoming 5% visitor levy will drive price-sensitive guests toward unregistered operators who skip both the tax and the licence.
The Welsh Government has opened a review of the occupancy threshold that forces self-catering owners to hit 182 let days a year or lose business rates status.
A listing that is fully compliant in one city can be unlicensed a few streets over, and hosts running properties in more than one market are left tracking state, county and municipal rules one at a time.
Asia-Pacific: Homelessness NSW wants a 7.5% charge on every short-term rental booking in New South Wales, arguing it could raise close to AUD $50 million a year for homelessness services.
A city-by-city look at where short-term rental rules remain tightest shows registration, licensing and outright bans still define which markets operators can actually work in.
Airbnb is replacing outgoing policy chief Jay Carney with an operations executive from Lime, a hire that points toward tougher city-by-city fights over short-term rental rules.
Canada: British Columbia's Civil Resolution Tribunal has wiped out $86,000 in cumulative penalties a strata corporation had levied against a condo owner over short-term rental use.
North Charleston has abandoned a proposal that would have let short-term rental permits pass to a property's new owner, so buyers still have to apply from zero.
Belfast City Council is stepping up enforcement against short-term lets and drafting new planning guidance as listings in the city approach 2,000.
Folly Beach, South Carolina, is considering a formal study into whether to keep, loosen or scrap its long-standing cap on short-term rental licences.
Flemish authorities are widening enforcement against short-term rental hosts who skip the region's compulsory tourism registration.
A Greek court has ordered a host to stop short-term letting an Athens apartment after co-owners invoked the building's residential-only bylaws.
Property owners across Nova Scotia are being urged to revisit registration, safety, and tax obligations as provincial officials sharpen enforcement of short-term rental rules heading into 2026.