The owner of a Greater Manchester property known locally as the shark house is asking the council to lift a ban on letting it out as a short-term rental, a dispute that turns on planning law rather than any licensing scheme.
A Colorado town board is still reworking its short-term rental ordinance, leaving operators without a final rule to plan around.
Pittsburgh's planning department has proposed a zoning code amendment that would define and regulate short-term rentals across every part of the city for the first time.
Airbnb's expansion into hotel and boutique-lodging inventory puts professional short-term rental operators up against competitors that skip the licensing caps and registration rules increasingly binding STRs.
A Clark County ordinance would prohibit booking platforms from taking reservations for unlicensed properties, with electronic licence verification. Roughly 13,800 active listings sit against 229 issued licences.
The city has started fining unlicensed short-term rental operators $1,000 a week and paired enforcement with a two-night minimum stay and a 200-night annual cap.
A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to New Orleans' short-term rental ordinance, leaving the city's residency and permitting restrictions in force.
Warren's short-term rental registry is drawing weak sign-up from hosts, leaving the Vermont town with a thin picture of how many vacation rentals actually operate within its borders.
Rental income stays taxable and VAT still applies to Airbnb's service fees, regardless of whether a host receives a reporting form from the platform.
A Chatham County judge has rejected a challenge to Tybee Island's short-term rental permitting and enforcement rules, leaving the beach town's system in place.
David Spielfogel worked on Chicago's early efforts to regulate Airbnb before running city fights for a scooter company. He now sets the platform's global policy agenda.
A Tampa Bay-area county commission split 2-2 on a proposed short-term rental ordinance, leaving existing rules in place for now.
The Association of Scotland's Self-Caterers has filed Freedom of Information requests across local authorities to expose how much operators actually pay for short-term let licences.
Two Balearic conservation organisations have called on regional election candidates to eliminate tourist rental licences entirely and halt new construction on rural land.
Italy's national association for B&B and room-rental hosts warns that city councils are stacking higher tourist taxes and tighter local rules on top of the national short-term rental registration regime.
A week into Edinburgh's new 5% overnight levy, self-catering hosts are still working out who collects it, on what, and when it stops applying.
HM Revenue and Customs has confirmed 7 August 2026 as the first quarterly reporting deadline for landlords brought into Making Tax Digital for Income Tax.
New Orleans lawmakers have once more pushed back a vote on tightening short-term rental rules, leaving permit holders unsure what compliance will look like next.
Cardiff is reportedly preparing to ease the annual letting threshold that decides whether a Welsh holiday let pays business rates or council tax.
Gary's city council signed off on a single short-term rental listing this week, a reminder that operators there need a public vote, not just a permit, before they can open.