Airbnb will highlight rental listings that have received top scores from guests, information that the company’s CEO says will help bring hotel-like reliability to booking a house or room on the site.
Is your buyer in the mood to start a business from their soon-to-be-new home’s garage? Does their wish list include an accessory dwelling unit? Then make sure to check listings on Redfin, company executives say.
Airbnb says it will use new methods to spot and block people who try to use the short-term rental service to throw a party.
Properties offered for short-term rentals in Boston declined 16 percent in the past year, with Dorchester, downtown and Jamaica Plain accounting for over a third of the overall inventory.
Two dueling visions of how the island’s long tradition of vacation rentals should respond to high housing costs and quality-of-life issues will go head to head on May 2.
Complaints about short-term rentals are resurfacing in Boston as the off-campus housing market and business travel recover from COVID downturns.
Vacation rentals site Airbnb announced that it won’t allow hosts to list units for rent where municipal officials say an eviction has occurred once the federal eviction moratorium ends in two weeks.
It’s been a rollercoaster year for Airbnb and its much-anticipated plans for an initial public offering or IPO. The home sharing platform had planned to file back in March to go public but then coronavirus hit and its revenue nose-dived.
Airbnb filed preliminary paperwork to sell company stock on Wall Street, undaunted by a global pandemic that has taken some wind out of its short-term rental business.
WeWork and Airbnb altered the way tenants look at property, the same way Uber and Lyft have upended the way passengers look at transportation
The vacation rentals site is responding to a deadly shooting at one of its California listings and new rules intended to limit its impact on the local housing market.
Almost a year after Massachusetts passed a law taxing and regulating short-term vacation rentals, the state’s revenue commissioner said Wednesday that the new tax is “settling in pretty well” after education and outreach efforts.
Developer Scape’s revised plans for the Fenway neighborhood call for three residential towers containing 1,357 units, including a 220-unit affordable housing tower at 2 Charlesgate West.
The city of Boston’s attempts to track and regulate the short-term rental industry in the city appear to be ready for take-off following a settlement between it and vacation rentals giant Airbnb.
The new tax on short-term rentals in Massachusetts kicked in on Monday, part of a 2018 law regulating lodging offered through platforms like Airbnb.
Airbnb is appealing a judge’s ruling on Boston’s new ordinance regulating short-term rentals.
While the Boston market holds interest for co-living project operators, the city presents challenges from a regulatory perspective. Boston’s zoning code is complicated, with many neighborhoods, in effect, having their own zoning ordinances.
The short-term rentals industry is entering a new phase in Massachusetts, with implications for the rest of the country, and last month’s ruling from the District Court came back with an important win for Boston and municipalities across the country
We, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors, have some big concerns with this new law. We will continue to educate our lawmakers as to how it affects their constituents.
Taking advantage of a new bill passed by the state legislature and signed by Gov. Charlie Baker late last month, the city of Quincy is looking to tax Airbnb listings in the city.
