Partner William Brewer Writes about Home-Sharing Services in Hotel Business Review

Partner William Brewer wrote in Hotel Business Review about how home-sharing services are poised for growth, and the subsequent legal issues that homeowners in the business are facing. The Dec. 9, 2018, article is titled “More Than Just Hot ‘Air’: A Legal View of Short-Term Home-Sharing.” The article emphasizes that home-sharing has “sound legal footing” in the hospitality arena. 

The article confronts the challenges faced by homeowners as urban and suburban communities attempt to regulate home-sharing activity. Brewer writes that, “These legal issues have brought the need for experienced attorneys, those well-versed in the ever-expanding caselaw and circumstances facing the hospitality industry. As artificial barriers – economic and even non-economic restrictions – are interposed to limit the use of their assets, homeowners will need to coalesce behind advocates able to break them down.” 

Consultant Peter J. Schwartz contributed to the article.

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