Hillsborough County commissioners have turned draft short-term rental rules into a binding ordinance, requiring hosts in unincorporated areas to register with the county and name a reachable local contact.
Homeowners in the East Lothian seaside town want the local council to curb the spread of cottages converted into short-term rentals.
A general-interest lifestyle site is the latest to publish a ranking of top Airbnb property managers without disclosing how it picked winners, adding to a pile of unvetted lists owners now use to shop for a manager.
Balearic authorities have fined the owner of an unlicensed vacation rental in Ibiza close to €800,000, one of the largest penalties recorded in the region's crackdown on illegal listings.
The European Commission is preparing legislation that would give local governments firmer legal ground to cap, freeze or ban short-term rentals, closing a gap that platforms and hosts have used to challenge city rules in court.
In regions losing residents, empty housing stock is turning short-term rental operators from a threat into a target for local recruitment.
Property managers planning fall 2026 travel now have three major industry gatherings landing close together - VRMA's annual conference, the Vacation Rental World Summit and SCALE Fest - and most operators will not have budget or staff to cover all three.
A zoning board's decision on a recreational vehicle rented out nightly turns on a single number - 10 beds - and hints at where other towns might draw the line for hosts.
Scottsdale has widened its short-term rental ordinance so the required round-the-clock contact must respond to routine police complaints, not just emergencies.
The short-term rental data firm has built its own dynamic pricing product, putting it in direct competition with revenue management platforms that license its market data.
Three hotel associations in the Balearic Islands have asked the regional government to use property registry records to help identify homes being let short-term without a license.
Brewster, Massachusetts will require the roughly 1,300 short-term rentals within its borders to register and pay $300 a year starting in January.
Scotland's self-catering trade body says Glasgow's next City Development Plan would treat short-term lets as an unacceptable land use across most of the city, adding a planning hurdle on top of the national licensing scheme already in force.
Seven months after tighter licensing rules took effect, the Canary Islands have shed roughly 7,000 vacation rental properties, with La Palma alone losing about one in four of its listings.
Middletown's zoning board granted an owner-occupied short-term rental permit despite three neighbors' objections, while a separate rental petition was pushed to a September hearing.
Riverside County has adopted tougher enforcement rules for short-term rentals in unincorporated areas, giving code enforcement more room to fine and shut down unpermitted listings.
The city attorney has filed a civil suit accusing four defendants of running unlicensed short-term rentals across 30 Los Angeles properties, with no primary-residence registration in sight.
Pitkin County commissioners have opened a review of the short-term rental licensing system covering unincorporated land around Aspen and Snowmass Village, with no revised rules adopted yet.
Corpus Christi council members are voting on a measure that narrows who can call a short-term rental owner-occupied, without touching the city's existing permit system.
A coalition of Arizona municipalities wants the legislature to let voters decide in 2026 whether cities can set their own short-term rental rules again.