Airbnb is urging the authorities in Barcelona to reconsider its crackdown on short-term rentals in the city. Online marketplace for short-term and long-term homestays, Airbnb, is calling on those in ...

Barcelona has implemented one of the strictest crackdowns on Airbnb and short-term rentals in the world. The measures are aimed at addressing skyrocketing rents and home prices, which city officials ...

The Spanish government has fined property rentals giant Airbnb €64m (£56m) for advertising unlicensed apartments.

Barcelona, one of Europe's most visited cities, said Friday it aims to ban apartment rentals to tourists by 2029 to ease the housing shortage in Spain's second largest city. An Airbnb logo on a phone ...

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Barcelona's new mayor is picking a fight with home rental websites as she tries to crack down on uncontrolled tourism that she fears could drive out poor residents and spoil the ...

Barcelona — the city, like the club — is a victim of its own success. About a decade ago, still reeling from the global recession and high unemployment, Catalonia’s capital threw open its doors and a ...

In 1904, the city of Barcelona received a petition for development from Eusebi Güell, an industrialist and a patron of the arts. Güell had bought a tract of land on the flank of Muntanya Pelada, or ...

Simply sign up to the US & Canadian companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The mayor of Barcelona has said the city will fine Airbnb and HomeAway €600,000 each, in the latest ...

Airbnb is facing a further squeeze on its activities in Barcelona, the Catalonian capital that’s hugely popular with tourists — ramping up tension with local communities dealing with inflating rents ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Barcelona fined homesharing websites Airbnb and Homeaway 600,000 euros ($633,600) each for advertising and renting out apartments to tourists without a license, the Catalan regional ...