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South Australia Is Building a Short-Term Rental Register: What Hosts Should Prepare

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.

Localsbnb Editorial TeamSeptember 20, 2026

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Maryland's New Safety Act: What Every Unit Must Have by 1 October 2026

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.

Localsbnb Editorial TeamSeptember 20, 2026

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South Korea: Ownership, Registration and the Short-Term Rental Rules Foreign Hosts Miss

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.

Localsbnb Editorial TeamSeptember 20, 2026

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Vietnam: Can a Foreign Owner Legally Run a Short-Term Rental?

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.

Localsbnb Editorial TeamSeptember 20, 2026

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Malaysia for Foreign Property Owners: Short-Term Rental Rules Worth Checking First

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.

Localsbnb Editorial TeamSeptember 20, 2026

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Airbnb's Single 15.5% Fee Reaches EU Hosts on 13 October: The Repricing Checklist

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.

Localsbnb Editorial TeamSeptember 20, 2026

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The EU's Proposed Housing Rules: What Short-Term Rental Hosts Should Watch

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.

Localsbnb Editorial TeamSeptember 20, 2026

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Suspicious Booking Flags: What Ignoring Them Costs

Most bad bookings are cheap to attempt rather than clever. This guide lists the host-side signals that survive a second reading, sizes what one bad reservation actually costs, and sets out how to choose between accepting, verifying and declining without deciding at 11 pm.

Localsbnb Editorial TeamSeptember 19, 2026

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What a Short-Term Rental Safety Inspection Actually Checks

A short-term rental safety inspection tests a shorter list than hosts expect, and most failures are paperwork rather than hardware. This guide sets out the core that recurs across ordinances, why egress and detection decide most refusals, which documents have to carry a current date, and a route through a unit in under an hour.

Localsbnb Editorial TeamSeptember 19, 2026

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Building Your Own Compliance Calendar

A compliance calendar turns scattered obligations into five dated rows per unit, kept where you already look and checked in five minutes a month. This guide covers why the date is what breaks, the five date types, and the monthly pass.

Localsbnb Editorial TeamSeptember 19, 2026