Resources for hospitality teams
Practical guides, industry insights, and proven workflows for vacation rental hosts and property managers.
New York's Local Law 18 is three years into enforcement, and the numbers quoted about it disagree because they count different things. What deserves attention is the shape of the filter — a presence requirement and a guest ceiling — because that, rather than a form or a fee, is what decides which units survive and which return in another structure.
South Australia opened consultation on a short-term rental register on 17 September 2026, including talks with booking platforms. Nothing is required of hosts yet, which is the reason the wait matters: a register asks different things of a file than a licence does, and the documents that take longest to gather are the ones you cannot order once it opens.
Maryland's short-term rental fire safety Act takes effect on 1 October 2026 and sets four requirements for every unit let for fewer than 30 consecutive days. Two are posted paper, one is hardware, and the one that catches hosts out is a production date printed on the back of an alarm. Enforcement arrives later, through counties and Baltimore City, which must put annual inspections in place by 1 July 2028.
Five ideas travel badly into the Korean market: a completed purchase, a business registration number, a friendly management office and a single filing all get treated as permission. In Korea holding property, operating lodging, running a business and reporting tax sit in different places. Four assumptions, and what replaces each one.
In Vietnam a foreign buyer can complete on an apartment and still have no right to let it by the night. Ownership and letting are answered by different rules. This article covers the routes open to foreign buyers, the building-level question that decides nightly letting, what attaches once you take a guest, and a confirmation sequence to run before and after signing.
Whether a foreign owner can run a short-term rental in Malaysia is decided less by short-term rental rules than by the title, the state's consent to the purchase and the building's own rules. This article sets out those three layers, the checks worth running before committing rather than after, the costs only non-citizen owners meet, and where the paperwork should live.
Airbnb collapsed its split service fee into a single 15.5% paid by the host, effective for EEA and Swiss hosts on 13 October 2026. The fee is charged on the whole booking subtotal, cleaning included. This is the repricing checklist, the arithmetic that actually preserves your payout, and the three things not to change.
On 9 September 2026 the European Commission proposed an Affordable Housing Act that writes short-term rentals into EU housing law for the first time. It is still a proposal. This article sets out what it creates, the three tests a city must pass before it may restrict letting, why registration becomes the front door, and what is worth preparing while nothing has changed yet.
A two-person hosting operation is not a small property management company. This guide covers where the arrangement stops working like a team, the three jobs that resist being split by hours, how to divide work by ownership, and what to hand off first when a second unit arrives.
A statement read in isolation always looks right. This guide starts from the payout you expected and walks down to the one that arrived, covering the four lines that explain most mismatches, what is worth disputing, and a two-minute monthly check.
