Blogs

The New Orleans City Council has hit pause on issuing new short-term rental permits in residential areas. The move comes as the city works on rewriting its short-term rental law....Continued

Several Colorado communities voted to increase lodging taxes on short-term rentals in the November 8 elections....Continued

The Cobb County Board of Commissioners has adopted a new law that will require short-term rental operators to register with the county and follow other rules....Continued

Riverside County has updated its short-term rental ordinance with several new provisions, including rules on occupancy and permit requirements. Under the revised law, occupancy limits depend on the si...Continued

A federal judge has blocked part of a restrictive Honolulu short-term rental law shortly before it had been scheduled to go into effect October 23. However, the city started enforcing the rest of the ...Continued

A new law in Sitka, Alaska, will require owners to live in a property at least half the year in order to get a license to operate as a short-term rental in the city....Continued

A Virginia law spelling out new requirements for accommodations intermediaries, including short-term rental marketplaces such as Airbnb and Vrbo went into effect on October 1....Continued

Vacation rental hosts in Burlington, Vermont, are now required to register their properties with the city, under a new ordinance passed by the Burlington City Council. ...Continued

Some local governments are incentivizing short-term rental operators to convert their properties into longer-term housing that can provide places for locals to live....Continued

The Santa Rosa City Council has capped the number of short-term rentals within the city at 198 with an emergency ordinance....Continued