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Regulations
Everything the Gazette has filed on Regulations, newest first.
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Crackdown
Corporate Ownership Bans Force LLCs to Sell Short Term Portfolios
City halls across the map are stripping business entities of short-term rental permits. The rush to deed properties back to living humans is colliding
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Host Life
The Commission Trap: Inside Furnished Finder Fees and the Mid-Term Shift
As regulatory bans squeeze nightly rentals, hosts are fleeing to thirty-day stays. But leaving the major platforms means trading commission fees for l
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World
The Brutal Economics of Italy Ancient Stone Rentals
Ancient thermal mass keeps Puglia's trulli and Matera's cave dwellings cool without high utility bills. But the regulatory and maintenance costs are a
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World
Japan's Minpaku Boom Defies the Regulatory Death Sentence
Despite a draconian 180-day cap and local municipal bans, Japan's short-term rental market is thriving. Here is how professional operators are outmane
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Crackdown
Annapolis Quintuples Short-Term Rental Fines in Warning to Event-Driven Markets
The era of treating municipal fines as a cost of doing business is over. As Annapolis moves to aggressively penalize unpermitted hosts, the entire ind
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Markets
Airbnb Promotes Agritourism as a Financial Lifeline for Maine Farmers
As coastal short-term rental markets tighten under heavy regulation, the platform is looking inland—and wrapping its corporate lobbying in a flannel s
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World
Cape Town Airbnb Hosts Hit by Triple Property Rates and Utility Shock
A compounding crisis of aggressive tax reclassifications, soaring valuations, and punitive utility tariffs threatens to wipe out short-term rental mar
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Exposed
The Ghost in the Garage: Why Hosts Secretly Live in Whole-Home Rentals
Crushed by debt service and falling revenue, hosts are hiding in basements and campers while renting out the main house. The fallout is about to deton
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Exposed
The Shadow Market for Airbnb Identity: Inside the 22 Sites Trading Verified Accounts
A major investigation exposes the booming grey-market economy where established host accounts are bought, sold, and traded to bypass platform rules an
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Host Life
Airbnb Funds Rural Pivot with Ten Thousand Dollar Grants for Arkansas Farmers
A tech giant hands out cash to small agriculturalists in the Ozarks, chasing unregulated inventory and a shield against city crackdowns. Here is the r
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The Money
Oktoberfest 2026: Munich Short-Term Rentals Book Slower but Earn More
Data from PriceLabs reveals a high-stakes game of chicken between Munich hosts and festival-goers, with slow booking curves masking record-breaking ni
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World
Mandy Rennehan Hands High-End Rental to Homeless Mission as Market Tightens
When an Atlantic contractor hands a premier vacation asset to an addiction charity, it exposes the brutal reckoning facing Canada's short-term rental
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World
The Byron Bay Warning Shot for Coastal Short-Term Rentals
As Australia's premier coastal market prepares to enforce a brutal 60-day annual limit, professional hosts worldwide must prepare for the new era of m
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Design
The Death of the Twenty Seven Thousand Dollar Cabin Dream
A Connecticut carpenter built a design-forward empire on five cheap acres in upstate New York. Ten years later, his playbook is both legendary and imp
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The Money
The Real Cost of Realtor.com's Secondary Market Predictions
Realtor.com wants owners to buy into under-the-radar markets. But the operational reality of secondary-market hosting is a far cry from the portal's r
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Crackdown
Historic Districts Are Banning Exterior Lockboxes to Deter short-term rentals
Preservation boards are using aesthetic guidelines to block automated check-ins, forcing physical key handoffs and pricing out remote investors.
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The Money
The Coastal Cool Down: What the Hilton Head Summer Showdown Means for Short Term Rentals
New data from South Carolina's premier beach market reveals a stark shift in the battle for occupancy. As traditional resorts claw back market share,
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Exposed
The Silent Parasite: How Crypto Miners Are Bankrupting Mid-Term Rental Hosts
Tech-savvy renters are converting month-long stays into makeshift server farms, leaving hosts with catastrophic utility bills that completely erase op
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Airbnb Experiences and Host Services Are Back to Save Squeezed Margins
As regulations tighten and ADRs flatten worldwide, the short-term rental giant is turning back to its experiential marketplace to extract more cash fr
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World
The Shard’s Fifty-Million-Pound Empty Apartments and the Rise of the Shadow Hotel
How ten unsold ultra-premium penthouses at the top of London’s tallest tower became a private, high-ticket short-term rental operation for global elit
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Design
The Scottish Bookshop Let That Proves Guests Will Pay to Work Your Shift
A tiny bookstore in Wigtown challenges everything we know about hosting. Inside the high-margin world of sweat-equity tourism and the regulatory maze
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Design
The Retro Liquidation: Why BC's $1.8M Themed Mansion Signals the End of Algorithmic Design Arbitrage
As British Columbia's strict principal-residence rules choke off commercial short-term rentals, highly stylized properties are hitting the block. Here
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Platforms
The European Guillotine: Inside the Leaked EU Affordable Housing Act
A leaked draft of the EU Affordable Housing Act reveals Brussels plans to dismantle the legal defenses of short-term rentals, giving cities total powe
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Crackdown
New York Short-Term Rentals Plummet 85 Percent Following Local Law 18 Crackdown
A year after the implementation of the city's aggressive registration system, the short-term-rental market in the five boroughs has been almost entire
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Crackdown
The Revolt Begins: Folly Beach Hosts File Class-Action Over Permit Fees
The era of pleading at city council meetings is over. Owners in South Carolina are taking the city to court over alleged shadow taxes, and the whole i
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Crackdown
Poland Moves to Hand Neighbors the Power to Ban Short-Term Rentals
The Polish government is drafting legislation that allows housing communities and municipalities to outlaw short-term rentals, shifting the battle fro
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Crackdown
Permit Hell: How Cities Are Choking Small STR Hosts Out of Business
The permit trap isn't just an inconvenience; it's a systemic risk silently pushing independent short-term rental entrepreneurs to the brink. This isn'
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The Money
The Quiet Audit Trigger: STR Tax Moves That Draw IRS Fire
Hosts chasing maximum deductions often flirt with danger. We break down the aggressive tax strategies that flag your short-term rental business for an
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Crackdown
The Permit Armageddon You Didn't See Coming: Your Deadlines Are Ticking
Hosts are sleepwalking into a regulatory nightmare, blowing critical renewal deadlines and facing automatic fines, license revocations, and even platf
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Exposed
The Passive-Income Lie: Why Mailbox Money is the Most Expensive Myth in STR
The glossy pitch of easy money and remote management has lured countless into short-term rentals. But behind the promise of 'passive income' lies a br
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Markets
National-Park Gateway Towns: The Gold Rush Hits the Wilderness
Forget cityscapes. The real money is now in cabins bordering America's most beloved parks. But the regulatory pushback is coming, and it's fiercer tha
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Markets
Coastal STRs Face Insurance Apocalypse: Carriers Flee, Premiums Soar, Markets Implode
The once-golden goose of beachside short-term rentals is under siege. As climate risk escalates, insurers are abandoning the coast, leaving hosts with
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Markets
Scottsdale's Party Apocalypse: How a Boomtown Busted Itself into Regulation
Scottsdale became a bachelorette mecca, then cities fought back. What happens when a party market grows up, and how do hosts survive the inevitable ha
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Host Life
Rental Arbitrage: The High-Stakes Gamble That Can Pay Big or Burn You Down
It looks like easy money: lease an apartment, list it on Airbnb, and watch the cash roll in. But the real story of rental arbitrage is a brutal calcul
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Crackdown
The Silent Killer: Parking Minimums are Quietly Disqualifying Half Your Market
A hidden clause in local ordinances, a bureaucratic relic from another era, is stealthily wiping out profitable short-term rental opportunities in the
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Crackdown
Coastal Carnage: The Summer Season Ban That Blindsided Beach-Town Hosts
A sudden wave of summer-only restrictions and permit freezes in America’s most sought-after coastal markets is gutting host incomes and reshaping the
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Crackdown
The Registration ID That Now Rules Your Listing: Platforms Are Delisting Unlicensed STRs
Ignoring the new mandate to display registration IDs on short-term rental listings isn't just risky, it's a guaranteed delisting. Hosts who missed the
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Crackdown
The Complaint Hotline Designed to Shut Down Your Business
Cities are arming angry neighbors with 24/7 hotlines and strike systems. One call can unravel your STR operation. This is how the crackdown really wor
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Crackdown
Your HOA Can End Your STR Overnight, and You Signed Away Your Rights
The silent killer lurks in the HOA covenants, a forgotten clause, or an amendment vote. Many hosts mistakenly believe they're safe. They are not. The
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Crackdown
The Permit Trap: How Cities Quietly Bankrupt Small STR Hosts
Permit caps, lotteries, and renewal games aren't just red tape; they're a rigged game turning legal businesses into a coin flip. STR NEWS reveals how
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Crackdown
The 30-Night Minimum: A Stealth Ban Erasing Your STR Business
Local governments are using minimum-stay laws to quietly dismantle the nightly short-term rental market, forcing hosts into a complex, often unprofita
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Crackdown
Primary-Residence-Only: The Deathblow to the Investor Host
Cities are weaponizing owner-occupancy mandates, framing them as a housing solution. But make no mistake: this is a surgical strike designed to wipe o
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