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What You Need to Know About the Sharing Economy

The World Economic Forum estimated in 2013 that the sharing economy would generate $350 billion in revenue around the globe that year. More than half of Airbnb hosts are dependent on income from ... read more

Mike Ablon: The Sharing Economy and Commercial Real Estate

Mike Ablon. Within a portion of the disassociated working class that never recovered in the jobless recovery after the Great Recession, there exists a burgeoning new society: the Sharing Economy. read more

Airbnb regulation needs to distinguish between sharing and plain old ...

Overall, we found that in late 2016, about a quarter of Sydney’s Airbnb listings were best viewed as short-term letting businesses, rather than examples of the sharing economy in action. read more

What the Sharing Economy Takes

The most prominent examples of the sharing economy are a taxi-hailing service called Uber and a real-estate-subletting service called Airbnb. As with most enterprises emerging from Silicon Valley ... read more

What Hotels Can Learn From the Sharing Economy - Skift

Hotels and the sharing economy don't compete as much as they complement one another. Understanding what makes the innovators work, though, can improve the operations of hotel chains and properties ... read more

Growth Worries for Uber, AirBnB, and Behemoths of the Sharing Economy

Growth Worries for Uber, AirBnB, and Behemoths of the Sharing Economy. Those who use short-term labor platforms such as Uber tend to be young, of low income, and living in the West ... read more

Airbnb brings sharing economy under the microscope

The home-sharing site learns the hard way that it can't assume San Francisco supervisors won't change their minds -- even after they passed a law legalizing short-term rentals. read more

The secret libertarianism of Uber & Airbnb | Salon.com

Sharing economy group Peers has collected over 200,000 signatures on a petition to “save sharing in New York,” and Airbnb has released studies and produced videos to fight the suits. The end ... read more

Can Government Learn to Live With the Sharing Economy?

With the sharing economy seeing explosive growth, there certainly is plenty of economic activity at stake. Uber is now valued at $18 billion. Airbnb, the home-sharing service, has grown by 750 ... read more

Airbnb to let tenants rent out properties - MSN

Airbnb is launching a scheme that will allow tenants to sub-let their rental properties amid criticism the website is driving up prices and fuelling a housing crisis. The property portal said the ... read more