News about Airbnb

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越来越多的房地产业主通过短租模式如Airbnb来赚取额外收入，但他们这样做到底合法吗？ 对于短租模式的合法性，房屋共享平台Airbnb已在网站清楚表明，若房地产业主有任何咨询应联系当地政府，或向当地律师或税务专业人士查询。 Airbnb也列出一些房地产业主在将房地产短期租出前，必须遵守的一些规矩，如：商业许可证、建筑和房屋标准、分区规则、税收或是住户组织已定下来的准则。 然而，吉隆坡市政厅(DBKL)的一名发言人说：“只要该住宅房产是用来住宅又或是出租，就不需要申请任何营业执照或许可证。” 一位匿名的Airbnb业者向TheEdgeProperty.

PETALING JAYA (Feb 16): Asian investors of hotel properties will continue to feature in 2017, with groups from Singapore at the fore, according to global real estate firm JLL.

SINGAPORE (Feb 7): Leasing your apartment or room out on a short-term basis through homestay networking services such as Airbnb may very soon be ruled as illegal under Singapore law.

  EVER since the emergence of home-sharing start-ups, many property owners have been getting in on the home-sharing economy by converting their homes, be they houses or apartments, into short-term rental stays.

When Spotify emerged in 2006, music distribution businesses were sorely affected — after all, who would buy digital music for RM2 apiece when you could get it for free on Spotify? Then came Airbnb, which put a dent in the global hotel industry because now every home can double up as a hotel too.

Space, and how people interact with it, is ever evolving.

BRAN, ROMANIA (Oct 31): Tonight, armed with courage and hopefully garlic, two horror fans dying for a thrill will become the first guests in almost 70 years to spend a night at Dracula's castle in Transylvania on Halloween.

PETALING JAYA (Oct 22): The first phase of Thriven Global Bhd’s Lumi Tropicana has achieved a take-up rate of 75% since its launch on Oct 15.

SINGAPORE (Oct 14): Ascott Residence Trust (ART) could benefit from parent CapitaLand’s recent tie-up with Tujia, dubbed China’s answer to Airbnb, says UOB Kay Hian lead analyst Derek Chang in a Oct 14 report which has a “buy’ on ART with S$1.