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Zoning Laws
Everything the Gazette has filed on Zoning Laws, newest first.
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World
Cape Town Confronts the Cost of the Holiday Let Boom
As housing advocates slam the city's toothless draft planning by-law, Cape Town's massive short-term rental market faces a reckoning over spatial ineq
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Host Life
The Ghost in the P&L: The High-Yield, High-Risk Business of Haunted Short-Term Rentals
Sleeping in a 1900s morgue sounds like a dare. For short-term rental operators, converting stigmatized historic properties is a masterclass in high-yi
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Design
The Mirror Cabin Disappears Into the Treeline and the Balance Sheet
Mirrored glass structures generate massive social media saves and high average daily rates, but operational realities like bird strikes and thermal lo
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Markets
Milford's STR Embrace: Is the Regulatory Pendulum Swinging Back?
A single council's decision to 'back' short-term rentals in Milford might seem small, but in the brutal, high-stakes war for the industry's future, ev
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Crackdown
Folly Beach Declares All-Out War: Moratorium Hits After Court Ruling, Industry Reels
The battle for control of short-term rentals just claimed another beachhead. Folly Beach's council is appealing a court loss and slamming the door shu
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Crackdown
The Duluth Hammer Drops: Single-Family STRs Under Siege in a Warning Shot Heard Across America
A quiet Minnesota city just fired a deafening warning shot at every short-term rental operator in America. Duluth is considering a ban on vacation ren
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Crackdown
The Silent Killer in Your Deed: How Zoning Makes Your STR 'Legal For Now'
A ticking time bomb hides in plain sight for countless short-term rental hosts. Your 'grandfathered' status is a temporary reprieve, not a lifetime pa
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Crackdown
Permit Lottery: Cities Turn Your STR Dreams Into a High-Stakes Gamble
Density caps aren't just red tape; they're a government-issued lottery ticket for a select few, freezing out new blood and turning legal listings into
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Crackdown
Ghost Hotel Crackdowns Are Gutting the Short-Term Rental Ecosystem
Cities declare war on multi-unit STR operations, but the real casualties are the professional managers who built the industry and keep it running.
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Crackdown
The White Death: Ski Towns Declare War on Your Chalet, And They're Winning
The snow-capped peaks once promised endless rental income, but a harsh new reality is setting in. Resort communities are drawing lines in the snow, ch
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Crackdown
Party House Chaos Triggers Sweeping Crackdown on Every Host in America
A handful of viral party disasters didn't just make headlines; they rewrote the rulebook for short-term rentals, dragging quiet hosts into a regulator
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Crackdown
Grandfathered Today, Gone Tomorrow: The Amortization Time Bomb
The 'existing operators are protected' clause is often a ticking clock, not a shield. We dissect how cities weaponize phase-outs and the financial rea
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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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