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...Additional listings on HomeAway, another short-term rental site, brings the total to about 70,000 active listings — the highest number anywhere in the world....
...But platforms such as Airbnb and HomeAway have brought significant international investment to countries that, since 2012, have been recovering from the eurozone crisis....
...But research by agent Savills and holiday rental group HomeAway has identified a sharp change in attitude over the decade following the credit crunch, as two-thirds of owners now seek to cover some or all...
...In November, Expedia acquired HomeAway, an Airbnb competitor, in a deal with worth about $4bn....
...Multiple listings also appear on sites such as Booking.com and HomeAway. Westminster said it was currently investigating 1,383 short-term lets in the borough, including 106 at Park West....
...In 2016, Barcelona fined Airbnb and HomeAway €600,000 each for listing hundreds of unlicensed tourist flats....
...During the quarter, total gross bookings were 15 per cent higher from a year ago, driven primarily by its HomeAway, Expedia and Hotels.com brands....
...Researchers found that 11 percent of companies, including HomeAway and SolarCity, used preferential stock to boost their valuations to more than twice what they would be worth using the study’s fair value...
...This is difficult because not all of the hosts who use HomeAway conduct their rental transactions online....
...He added that he considers Expedia to be “strategically complete” after a string of acquisitions including Travelocity, Orbitz and HomeAway....
...HomeAway’s business has grown rapidly, with bookings up 50 per cent in the first quarter of this year. But integrating HomeAway’s room inventory with Expedia has not been easy....
...Expedia has been pushing a similar shift at HomeAway — to the dismay of some hosts. About half of HomeAway’s 2m listings are now available to book instantly....
...HomeAway did not immediately reply to a request for comment....
...Airbnb’s move will also raise the heat on high-end vacation home rentals sites such as London-based Onefinestay, which was acquired by Accor last year, and HomeAway, which is owned by Expedia....
...This stands in contrast to the approach taken by rivals such as HomeAway and Booking.com, which do not enforce the 90-day limit on the grounds that it is solely the hosts’ responsibility....
...“It is quite a task they [Airbnb] are taking on,” says Rob Stephens, general manager at Avalara MyLodgeTax, which provides tax services in the US to people who use HomeAway and Airbnb to rent their homes...
...Acquired by Expedia for $3.9bn last year, HomeAway had predicted 2015 revenues of $500m....
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...Vincent Wermus, the managing director of online vacation rental service HomeAway in France, said that the tighter laws governing online short-term home rental threatened to hold back the collaborative economy...
...jurisdictions to pay the tax directly,” says Rob Stephens, general manager of Avalara MyLodge Tax, which provides tax and compliance services for accommodation hosts who rent through sites like Airbnb and HomeAway...
...In the hunt for new areas of growth, it bought holiday rentals marketplace HomeAway for $3.4bn at the end of last year, with an eye to building it into a direct competitor to Airbnb, the US-based home rentals...
...Last week online travel group Expedia paid $3.9bn to buy HomeAway, an Airbnb rival that specialises in vacation rentals....
...In November, Expedia acquired HomeAway, another Airbnb competitor, in a deal with worth about $4bn....
...HomeAway rallied after Expedia said it would buy the company in a $3.9bn cash-and-stock deal. HomeAway competes with Airbnb, the burgeoning alternative lodging website....
...HomeAway Payments, for instance, means a payment is covered against internet fraud for up to £10,000....
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