Councillors are pushing for a ban on short-term rentals, particularly in inner-city suburbs – where vacancy rates can be as low as 1% ...

A major issue travellers have with the popular accommodation booking platform is requests from hosts you just wouldn’t get when opting to stay in a hotel. One tweet from an engineering director at ...

The findings by Oxford Economics released on Wednesday showed the short-stay accommodation portal accounted for 7.8 per cent of the tourism industry’s contribution to Australia’s GDP in 2022, up from ...

The current housing crisis has renewed debates about how to regulate short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb. The international research on the impact of these rentals is clear: when landlords ...

If you’re like most people, you get frustrated when you try to book an Airbnb listing only to find that additional fees put the property way outside of your budget. There’s a way around it, though.

Airbnb admitted in Australian court that it had made “false or misleading representations,” charging customers in U.S. currency instead of Australian dollars. By Amanda Holpuch An Australian court on ...

But if you think you are eligible for compensation and have not been contacted, now is the time to contact Airbnb. In December, the Federal Court ordered Airbnb to pay $15 million in penalties after ...

The city has asked staff to investigate ways to ban investors from listing entire properties on platforms such as Airbnb ...