Open war between Barcelona management and Airbnb. Just last summer, mayor Jaume Collboni announced that the Spanish city would ban short-term tourist rentals by 2028; in short, no more Airbnb to put residents’ homes back on the market to lower rental prices. “The days of economic activity using residences as tourist accommodation are numbered in […]
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‘Tourists are returning home’: Shot with water pistols and locked in buildings Barcelona bans AirBnb: What if tourism isn’t our oil?
They shot at tourists to show their anger. Nothing serious, because they only have water guns, but the protest against mass tourism in Barcelona is only the latest demonstration to highlight how the problem of overtourism (overtourism) in Spain is perceived as unsustainable by a growing part of the population. This time, thousands of people […]
All things considered, I tried to buy a house and rent it: Here’s how much I made The short-term rental business of the Airbnb model is becoming so popular that the government had to stop it. Where is it cheaper to buy and rent a house by the sea, in the mountains or in art cities?
I thought about becoming an influencer so that I wouldn’t have water left in my throat at the end of the month, but since I’m not very good with social media, I started to evaluate the tourist rental business, which has been booming lately. Will it be appropriate? I tried doing some simulations, here’s what […]
From the new code to be displayed on short-term rentals to fire extinguishers: What’s changing for home renters?
There is news about short-term rentals, an issue dominated by platforms such as Airbnb, Booking or Expedia, but where private individuals are also quite active, with the European Union and the Meloni government working to regulate the sector. In the Advance Decree, which reached the Senate Budget Committee, in addition to improving the discussed “touch-up […]
More than 779 million euros were seized from AirBnb
Bad blow to AirBnb. Milan Financial Police, upon the order of the investigating judge, seized over 779 million euros from Airbnb Ireland Unlimited Company, owner of the short-term rental platform of the same name, as part of the investigation carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office for tax crimes. The three suspects, as stated in prosecutor […]
Salvini reopens the game by building amnesty: “Evaluate the amnesty on minor irregularities”
Construction amnesty is back. The issue was raised again by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini. The union’s leader is considering amnesty for minor construction irregularities. Speaking at a Construction conference in Piacenza, Salvini said: “There are hundreds of thousands of small architectural, construction and urban planning irregularities that clog […]
Weekend in the city at hotels only: fines of up to 5,000 euros for anti-Airbnb crackdown
Those who want to spend the weekend in the historic center of an Italian city can no longer rely on short-term rentals on platforms like Airbnb: For tourists who want to spend their Saturdays and Sundays in the cities of the arts, all that remains is to choose hotels or other accommodation facilities. This is […]