Flat owners win right to ban Airbnb rentals in building

An owner's association in an apartment building in the center of Prague has won a court case in which it defended its decision to outlaw short-term rentals by any of the owners in the building. Enough of the members in the association voted in favor of the ban to write the rule into the group's official governing documents three years ago. The owner, who was leasing his flat out through Airbnb, took the association to court on the grounds that his property rights were being violated, but this week lost his case. The court ruled that the association's members had the right to ban short-term rentals if it was violating their ability to live in peace. It wrote that the owner was exercising his ownership rights in a way that limited the ability of the owners to exercise their own equivalent rights.