Airbnb's website experienced problems on Friday, beginning around 12:15 p.m. EST when users were unable to access their accounts, look at reservations and respond to guests. The website Down Detector ...

All Airbnb reservation requests for the real-life "Home Alone" house were entirely booked Tuesday, the same day as the rental opportunity opened. Nearly as exciting as a whole cheese pizza all to ...

Popular website Airbnb allows people to rent out rooms in their homes for short-term rentals. The practice of short-term private home rentals is growing in areas like Silver Lake. Silver Lake is ...

Starting today, when Portland Airbnb hosts login to their account, they'll be presented with two options: Input a number associated with their city permit to operate a short-term rental—or apply for ...

While it's possible to see the general location of rentals on Airbnb's own website, there's never been a way to see every available listing in a city. Until now. A website called InsideAirbnb has ...

Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms have been a boon to travelers in recent years, offering lodging that is cheaper, better located or more interesting than traditional hotels. But as such ...

More than a year after the city of Chicago started enforcing its home-sharing regulations, it's harder to run an illegal home rental through Airbnb. But maybe not hard enough. A quick search for West ...

Shares of Airbnb are getting hammered on concerns that a new, formidable competitor has emerged for the home-sharing site: its own “super hosts.” The Bear Cave, an investing blog, posted a report on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michelle Gross is a seasoned travel journalist based in Beaufort, SC. With the summer travel season now upon us and flights at an ...

NEW YORK – A judge has ruled that a New Yorker who rented his apartment on a popular traveler site broke the law. East Village condo owner Nigel Warren was ordered to pay a $2,400 penalty for ...